Procrastination is the Thief of Time With Research Proof

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Research about the dangers of procrastination

Scientific research on procrastination supports the claims that it can be a thief of time, and also shows that it’s associated with a wide range of other issues.

For example, students often report that procrastination occupies over a third of their daily activities, usually in the form of behaviors such as sleeping, watching TV, or playing video games. Accordingly, it’s not surprising that, among students, procrastination is associated with various academic issues, such as worse exam scores, worse grades, increased course failures, increased course withdrawals, and an increased likelihood of dropping out.

Furthermore, procrastination has also been shown to be associated with various other issues. For example, procrastination is associated with various employment and financial issues, such as earning a lower salary, having shorter durations of employment, and having a higher likelihood of being unemployed or under-employed (as opposed to working full‐time). In addition, procrastination is associated with worse emotional wellbeing, various physical and mental health issues (e.g., stress), and the tendency to delay getting treatment for these issues.

Accordingly, procrastination has been called a thief of other things beyond time, such as happiness.

The prevalence of procrastination
In addition to being associated with a wide range of dangers and negative effects, procrastination is also a highly prevalent phenomenon.

For example, studies suggest that procrastination chronically affects 15%–20% of adults, and that approximately 25% of adults consider procrastination to be a defining personality trait for them.

Furthermore, many more people than that engage in various forms of procrastination in general. For example, in a study on an adult sample, 74% of people who were surveyed indicated that they go to bed later than they planned to at least once a week, with no external reason for doing so.

Finally, procrastination is especially common among certain populations, such as students. For example, studies show that approximately 80%–95% of college students engage in procrastination to some degree, approximately 75% consider themselves to be procrastinators, and approximately 50% say that they procrastinate in a consistent and problematic manner.

We all know how Procrastination overshadows all the good habits we have. But here’s a poet, taken a step above and explained how procrastination is robbing your time. Edward Young, an English poet, has written about procrastination in his poem “The Night Thoughts”. He describes how procrastination steals your time and slowly takes away everything productive from you.

The lines in his poems say:

“Procrastination is the Thief of Time. Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves.” – Edward Young, Night Thoughts.

Procrastination is the Thief of Time: Explained

 procrastination steals away your valuable time. Slowly, procrastination can become a habit. And year after year if we look back, procrastination would have taken all productive things away from us. Except for the mercies of the present moment, all progressive things would have been lost by then.

With Procrastination:

What’s Lost is Lost!

We all have heard a line that says “what’s lost is lost”. It is true with procrastination. The time, efforts, progress, good-habits, good-routines, and all good things in our life can go in vain if we keep procrastinating. We cannot get back the time lost. Edward young rightly pointed out that “year after year, it steals”.

It steals your Years!

Imagine that if you keep procrastinating your tasks every day. By the end of the month, you will have a heap of unfinished tasks. Imagine if you keep doing this habit for three months or six months? What happens? You have lost a valuable period of the year.

Conclusion:

It  is clear that procrastination is the thief of time, as it takes away all the good things we have year after year till we are left with nothing but the present!