6 Surprising Reasons You Procrastinate Unknowingly

Do you often feel that you work much more effectively under the crunch of a deadline?

The pressure of completing tasks within a specific time to meet deadlines or other people's expectations can be one of the things that truly impact your productivity and procrastination factors in your everyday life.

Procrastination can be frustrating and overwhelming, but it is important to understand the reasons why you fail to do a task or complete any project on hand to overcome it strongly.

How to Know If You're a Procrastinator?

If you look at your human design chart, you might have one or more motor centers activated or defined that can play a key role in understanding the process behind your product with the levels, and also the same can help you to break free from the cycle of procrastination to regain control of your life.

One of the important motor centers that govern productivity is the root center, and most of your decision-making process and the ability to work productively can be related to this important center in your body.

When you have a defined or undefined root center in your human design chart, here is how you will relate to procrastination.

Defined Root Center: You don't have to panic about procrastination because you know exactly the time to start the work to complete it. No need to worry about delays, laziness, stressing about time, or unfinished results.

Undefined Root Center: You may procrastinate because of a lack of motivation or might feel guilty because of expecting too much from yourself. You might need a single dose of adrenaline rush to quickly complete the tasks. Break your task into the smallest steps and schedule your work routine to get out of the cycle of procrastination.

Apart from the Root center, human design motivation can also play a key role in identifying the reasons for procrastination and how you can overcome it by understanding your natural motivation and paying attention to the transference that gives you opposite signs.

How to Overcome Procrastination Using Your Human Design Motivations?

Motivations are one of the important components of the human-designed system, which determines the specific actions and decisions we take as individuals. One of the key reasons why we procrastinate is based on the decision-making process.

The ability to find the clarity to make decisions makes it easier to complete goals and aspirations as an individual, but if you are not able to navigate the different challenges, choices, and options in life. It may lead you to experience procrastination due to confusion, frustration, and dissatisfaction.

There are 6 motivations in human design, and you can find out your human design motivation by observing the number and arrow mark on the raw on the top right corner of your human design chart.

Motivation—Transference

Fear—Need

Hope—Guilt

Desire—Innocence

Need—Fear

Guilt—Hope

Innocence—Desire

When you are in alignment, you can make decisions with your authentic self, but if you are not in alignment, it leads to transference, where you will do the exact opposite which hinders the decision-making process.

Let's look into each of the 6 motivations and find out the reasons why you procrastinate to make it easier for you to find a better way to make choices that support your overall well-being.

Are You Worried about Procrastination? You must know this.

Procrastination is a state of mind that subconsciously creates self-doubt in your ability to complete a task or do something that you have been wanting to do for a long time.

Why does Fear Make People Procrastinate?

Fear is one of the common factors that makes it difficult for an individual to make better decisions because it can manifest as a fear of rejection or failure.

Procrastinating to do something because you are fearful of the outcome can be one of the driving forces if you have the fear motivation in the human design chart.

When you overcome the fear, it can become a dominant force in your decision-making process. 

Having anxiety over taking risks and preparing to be on the safer side may not work out for you, as you might keep pushing the barriers because of unreasonable fears and worries.

Find out the reason why you're avoiding and limiting yourself from making important decisions or pursuing your passions in life if you have the fear motivation in your chart, and try not to make it a saboteur. Facing your fears by doing the task that you have to do can help you stop ruminating on things and avoid important tasks.

How Being Too Hopeful Can Make You Procrastinate?

Being hopeful can be one of the positive things as an individual to follow your dreams and aspirations in life, but if you are spoiled for choices, it can make you procrastinate unknowingly.

People with the hope motivation in the human design chart can overcome obstacles and achieve their goals by getting rid of procrastination if they are in alignment with their authentic selves.

If you keep asking yourself about doing a million tasks every day or setting too many goals and procrastinating forever, it can lead to disappointment, and the solution is meant if your expectations are not met regularly.

Therefore, it is important to maintain a positive outlook on life and also be hopeful of finding the right things in life, but don't expect too much from yourself and procrastinate in doing important things as required.

How can the Desire to be Perfect Can Make You Procrastinate?

Having plenty of desires to manifest in your career or personal life might be a great tool for motivating yourself to achieve success. However, if you want to fulfill your desires and needs for utmost perfection, it can make you lose sight of the bigger picture.

Individuals with the desire motivation must set goals in moderation and must not push themselves to achieve a lot or procrastinate, as they don't find a job completely done because overdoing can lead to obsession and burnout.

If you are not in alignment with your authentic self and desire to be perfect in completing a job or putting yourself out there in the most perfect way possible, it can lead you to procrastinate instead of completing even simple tasks at hand.

Why Being Too Needy to Get Tasks Done Can Make You Procrastinate?

If you are a person always looking to get tasks on hand done as quickly as possible and set too high standards for yourself, you may be prone to procrastinate a lot. 

You are never ready to start a task because you need to have all the right things set up to start anything, which can make it very difficult for you to accomplish things in the long run.

When you need motivation in your human design chart, you might wait to launch any project or even a business idea until everything is organized and perfect because you need to have everything under control. 

This all-or-nothing mentality can make it look like you need everything to be perfect, or it is not worth doing that thing. There can be fear of failure, or you may set unrealistic expectations and want to find perfect solutions for even setting smaller goals. 

This can make you rarely pursue your goals because you're too focused on the details, and this need for motivation can be hidden under the fear of not achieving your full potential. Once you overcome the fear, you might be able to visualize big goals and keep everything sorted.

Why Feeling Guilty Often Can Make you Procrastinate?

Guilt is one of the strong emotions that is associated with most procrastinators because they often feel they don't do enough or can't handle tasks on time, which leads them to feel more guilty for not being disciplined and productive. This can be particularly true for people with a guilt motivation in their human design chart.

If you feel guilty for not putting enough effort into achieving your goals or failing to live up to your expectations, you might learn to procrastinate so as not to feel inadequate.

Sometimes it can also lead to low self-discipline, self-compassion, and mood swings. However, if you have guilt motivation, you can turn it from the dysfunctional type to improve your mood, health, and productivity by reducing guilt-related procrastination.

Next time, if you are feeling guilty, become aware of any self-critical thoughts and instead use them to improve your self-esteem and mindfulness to complete tasks on time. Don't be too hard on yourself if you are experiencing guilt, and learn to forgive yourself quickly.

How Setting Up Unrealistic Goals Can Make You Procrastinate?

Procrastination is often linked to overachieving or expecting too much performance, where you might feel a constant need for something to push you to the edge.

If you have to get a spark of motivation to keep you focused on a task, you might not be sustainable in the long run because that adrenaline rush can often lead to health issues and psychological effects.

If you have the innocence motivation in your human design chart, you can easily get rid of the habit of procrastinating by simply choosing to set simple goals or not even trying to set any goals but instead focusing on the tasks alone and seeing them to completion.

Only when you keep putting things off until the last minute to complete the task or try to pile up your tasks and fail to meet the deadlines might you get into the habit of procrastination, leading to boredom and frustration.

When you leave out the desire to achieve a lot of things or take down the habit of setting unrealistic goals and stick to your Innocence motivation, you will have more time to get things done properly. 

Being carefree and not worrying too much about the deadlines or how much you have accomplished in a specific time can help you not procrastinate.

Conclusion 

If you are a person finding it difficult to stop procrastinating you can check your human design chart for identifying the key details and using different strategies to overcome procrastination habits. 

If you have a defined root centre it becomes easier for you to complete tasks on time and you can focus on doing things exactly at the right time because your body knows when to give you that motivation.

However if you have an undefined root centre you may be prone to Procrastination because of a lack of motivation. In such cases, you can focus on the human design motivations and find out how you act when you have to finish an important task and look for the signs of motivation you get and also the transference that happens subconsciously.

Based on your human design motivation you can understand whether you are in alignment or not based on the motivation that you get for completing a task on time and also if you are in non alignment and more prone to the transference make sure that you change that with consistent strategies for better outputs.