Perseverance vs. Procrastination

The opposite of perseverance is procrastination. Perseverance means you never quit. Procrastination usually means you never get started although the inability to finish something is also a form of procrastination.

Ask people why they procrastinate and you'll often hear something like this, “I'm a perfectionist. Everything has to be just right before I can get down to work. No distractions, not too much noise, no telephone calls interrupting me, and of course I have to be feeling well physically, too. I can't work when I have a headache. ” The other end of procrastination – being unable to finish – also has a perfectionist explanation…"I'm just never satisfied. I'm my own harshest critic. Unless all the I's are dotted and all the Tt's are crossed, I just can't consider that I'm done. That's just the way I am, and I'll probably never change."