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Why did I leave it till the last minute?

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"I'll do it tomorrow.” “I have plenty of time to do it.” “I don’t feel like starting now.” Sound familiar? Procrastination is something that we’re all more or less familiar with. Can you count the times you’ve postponed something that needed to be done or just left it till the last minute? I surely cannot. It has haunted me in my childhood, in my mandatory school years and in college. It seems like a love-hate relationship, one could say. You don’t want it but you just can’t get to end it forever. Why do we procrastinate The task is repulsive.It is something we don’t enjoy doing whatsoever, like doing taxes, work on a project, going to the gym, cleaning our room/house, going to the dentist, studying and so on. We come up with excuses to avoid the unpleasant emotions this task entails and then we engage in something enjoyable like social media, games, web browsing, watching TV and anything else really. We don’t procrastinate on things we find...