In most cases, this is sheer lethargy and lack of strong ambition to excel. Once I read somewhere- A successful man does today what a not so successful man does tomorrow.  

Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:

In most cases, this is sheer lethargy and lack of strong ambition to excel. Once I read somewhere- A successful man does today what a not so successful man does tomorrow.

 

Fear of Failure prevents an individual from starting the job at all. Thus they will be adding more and more Unattended works. This adds further burden of unattended works. 

Procrastinationators are made not born. Sometimes, people who works perfectly tends to go such way as they feel such job would not be finished perfectly.

What a wonderful saying by Kabir sahib, a great saint and a mystic. If there is no specific aim and have a concrete plan, then procastination comes into picture. Also lack of strong desire results in procastination and ultimately he will not do it also.

This thought provoking idea about Procrastination was envisioned by our great seers centuries ago.

Indeed. There is a book at home named Tales of the Mystic East by Radha soami satsang beas and is a very good book in which all morals and values are hammered home through short 2 pages stories which was given to my father by a person at free of cost. Read it 5 to 6 times and yet it's magic doesn't decrease. It stimulates the spiritual quotient. These seers are the torch bearers and give useful ideas in short messages.

Yes. That's good book worth reading. John Ruskin says such books are known as "Alltime Books."

We usually put off those things which have no deadline, with a feeling that nothing will happen even if it is done tomorrow; but that tomorrow never comes…. Instead, if there is a deadline and severe consequences, then we will not procrastinate. So it is the time factor and the circumstances that make us procrastinate anything; and of course, our mindset is the real villain.  

Besides complacency , fear of failure makes some procrastinate. They go on postponing the work. And this postponing goes on and on....

Truly, there should be a deadline for everything and it should not be too much of time, but the exact time as it is a proven fact that we tend to generally keep a longer time than required undermining our abilities.

In GMCS course our sir taught this point by a small exercise in which he asked us to think how many zeroes we can write in one minute and we thought and we started writing zeroes till the last second and when we counted them they were more than what we thought we could pen down.

So a strict and right deadline is also important to achieve anything and grow more faster. Deadlines when not done, we can put a cross and when we go on looking on more crosses we feel wretched and we will start to power ourselves up to do it within the deadlines slowly.