How Does Procrastination Affect My Life

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In the courses of my precious life, many choices and events may affect me negatively, but what hurts me the most is one simple thing that can easily destroy and overpower all my opportunities of using that valuable time on better things to do, which leaves me no choice but to declare the separation of procrastination from my life. The presence of procrastination is self-evident in my life as it occurs daily; it occurs in the morning as well as the night; it is always deriving my choices in life without my consent; it steals valuable time away from me as I am not aware of it. When procrastination becomes rather destructive to my daily life, I should have the right to abolish it completely and institute a new foundation to avoid it from …show more content…
It has brain-washed my peers and family to look down at me as if I was not mature or responsible enough to handle such easy tasks a child can do; it makes me feel highly disrespected due to me knowing my own potential.
It has made me into a bad example to others; to my brother, my cousins, my friends and to anyone else that looks up to me and sees me as their role model. This one problem alone has made me lose my respect from my peers and followers, they now think of me as a bad example and should not follow or listen to any of my ideas, methods or techniques even if they are obviously not going to affect them negatively in any way possible.
It has endeavoured to always overpower me and prevent me from resisting in every way, so it leaves me just struggling to obtain myself from under undesirable circumstances, such as when I know I am procrastinating but some
It has obstructed many opportunities I had to achieve a goal that I have set for myself I that could have possibly accomplished that included: getting good grades, learning how to cook, working out, getting a 6 pack, getting better at basketball and the list can go on and
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All of my complaints are only answered back in negative responses. So if it is truly part of my human nature, it should be benefiting me in every way possible, but it has proven that it is not helping me in any way rather that it is hurting me and putting me in danger. Procrastination, this cruel thing, it is such a careless thought that can ultimately lead to great destruction has not served me well nor has I adapted to it. Procrastination at this time of age is one of, if not, the worst thing to experience. Time can not be bought, as minutes that are wasted can become years; as you waste your life slowly, you will become full of regret thinking back about all the nice things you should have been doing with that valuable time. And I certainly do not want to experience this for the rest of my life. I must, therefore, announce my separation from procrastination for eternity as we must show peace to one another. I, Ryan Liu, solemnly publish and declare, that I have the right to be free from procrastination; that anything regarding myself is never to show any association or

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