Is Procrastination ever Helpful in Life?

We all have a numerous number of tasks ahead every day that we need to complete, but as we have only 24 hours in a day and unlimited work to do, we often assign ourselves some tasks to complete on the next day. When is the next day? Tomorrow! But again the next day is only 24 hours long, and we have new tasks the next day, so we push the older tasks to another next day that is tomorrow. Therefore tomorrow becomes the busiest day if we actually decide to work. Sometimes, we keep postponing our work for weeks, months and even as long as a year. Procastination can be helpful in these many ways:

#1. Time Management

If you become a positive procrastinator, then you can manage time well. Time management means that you will assign the right amount of time to different tasks you have to do according to your priority. If there is some work that needs less time, then you will leave it for the end of the day. But if some work needs more time then you will do that work first. So in the time left you can do something else that interests you more. This allows you to do more work than people usually do.

#2. Priority

When you are a positive procrastinator you learn about your priorities. You become aware of the things which are important to you and which are not. If you are constantly delaying something then it means it may not be of higher importance to you but if there are tasks that you complete before others then you know what importance they hold. And when you realize the importance of the tasks it becomes easier for you to plan accordingly or eliminate some from the list.

#3. More Ideas

If you are a procrastinator then it is possible that some of you are lazy people and we know how lazy people come up with creative ideas to get their work done. When you are procrastinating some work then subconsciously you think of the ways you can complete them faster right before the deadline. During the time when you procrastinate, you are also thinking of the creative ways to complete the task in a more productive way. So, procrastination makes you a creative person.

#4. Energetic

Procrastination builds a storage house for you to save your energy. When you are procrastinating by not doing anything, you are saving your energy. So when the deadline comes close you use all the energy that you saved delaying things to work efficiently. When you have enough energy you can even work on those tasks that are boring to you.

#5. Focus

When you complete your work right before the deadline then you focus more because you have less time to complete your work. So when you do not have enough time to complete your work, you automatically focus more and your concentration increases. And when you focus more the work gets completed faster and earlier because you will be avoiding any kind of distractions around you.

Read: Why Do We Procrastinate?