We all have the habit of delaying our work and passing it on to the next day. But most importantly programmers delay one thing the most: their Side-projects. Everybody is guilty of procrastination, and nobody is a stranger to it, but while procrastinating our work can not be the best option, procrastinating our own personal projects is. Here are 3 reasons why we should not procrastinate and do our projects in free time:
Future Assets
Delaying projects makes you lose on a lot of opportunities coming your way. When the habit of delaying things always surrounds you, you do not realize the precious opportunities and forget to make use of them. Any new opportunity that comes your way gets missed. Remember, most opportunities come around only once. You don't even know that your personal idea might become the next tech giant in the future, like GitHub or accidentally, you solved a problem that some people face. At least, you can sell this project to a suitable buyer.
You lower your self-esteem
Procrastination and self-esteem are one of those vicious circles you can never get out of. You tend to procrastinate because of low self-esteem, and procrastination then further lowers your self-esteem. With low self-esteem, you hold yourself back to improve your work and productivity. What happens is our side projects make us face new challenges since we mostly do the same work in our jobs. When we face new challenges, we improve our skills and it helps make us feel more proud of our coding brain. But the lack of perseverance, which is one of the main causes of procrastination. The worst part about procrastination is that you lose out on your precious time without even realizing it. Procrastination and the habit of delaying your pending work prevent you from completing your goals and destroy your chances of becoming better in life.
Ruin Career
With low self-esteem and fewer goal fulfillment, you seem to miss out on your deadlines and targets. You lose excitement to our main job and now, you don't enjoy the moments once you thought will be your best. Side projects help us learn new things which help in our job. We also are more excited when a new task comes into our job and finds it an immense opportunity. Your lack of interest in coding will result in something bad for the future. You might miss out on appraisals, incentives, and promotions, and eventually ruin your career. This leads to an adverse consequence on your career growth. Moreover, it is very frustrating to lose out on time and career because of these silly things like lethargy, boredom, etc.
So Get Up on Weekends and Work on your personal projects. Btw, here are some DEV.TO community thoughts on this.
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