Academic Procrastination: The Thief Of Time And An Enemy Of Success

Abstract

Procrastination is the thief of time it steals away the magnificence of what time brings us. Time is a inflexible conception of life for humans, something that is immune to our system. Negligent events in our lives do not lend a hand anyone or anything. The thief of time is most certainly procrastination. Procrastination is the prevention of doing a task that needs to be proficient by a certain deadline. It could be more stated as a usual or deliberate impediment of starting or finishing a task in spite of knowing it might have depressing consequences. Procrastination means to put off or delay for another day. Procrastination affects the behavioral, psychosomatic, wellbeing of students Milgram Batin & Mower (1993) reported that a common form of academic procrastination among students is waiting until the last minute to turn in paper or to study for an examination. This article throws light on
academic procrastination, causes of procrastination and different strategies to overcome academic procrastination. The purpose of this review of literature was to present research findings and records on Academic Procrastination as a thief of time and an enemy of success , as well as to look into how procrastination badly effects Academic Performance of students and their learning behavior in their educational carrier, 4416 entries were found in the databases Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and ERIC, with 30 studies fulfilling the requirements for inclusion. This paper presents a review of the studies that have been published about Academic Procrastination as a thief of time and an enemy of success. We analyze the concept of Academic Procrastination as well as its prevalence, psychological features and associated psychiatric co morbidities. Research in this field of study has usually
evolved from a global view of the Academic procrastination as a thief of time to its analysis via theories and contents. Thing not done in time are rarely done right. If a person trapped in the routine of procrastination allows an opportunity to slip, he may not get another
opportunity of doing the task. Hence, it is true that ‘procrastination is the thief of time