Apart from this, the consequences of procrastinating on emotional stuff are severe. You might dream of taking your grandparents on an airplane one day, but that day may not come. If you keep procrastinating about this, one day you will find out that they passed away. As a result, you’ll be left with heavy regret. Disappointment over these.
It is not only about lifetime regret, it brings in stress, anxiety, and depression as well. The thing you want to do, and the thing you are doing, if there’s a huge gap between the two, there will be a mental conflict within you, this can be termed Cognitive Dissonance. In a study conducted in a German university on more than 1,000 people, it was found that due to procrastination, there are high levels of stress, depression, anxiety, fatigue, it impacts everything.
Another feeling that accompanies procrastination is guilt. If we aren’t happy with procrastination, why do we do it? Scientists have come up with 4 theories for it.
