We Filipinos are very patriotic.

We have very admirable

traits. However, as human as we are, we are not perfect. We

also have flaws like everyone else. We also have some common

traits that have been present for centuries and one of them

is the Mañana Habit. This habit is common among Filipinos.

This is the practice of putting off things for another day

than doing it today. This habit is also known as

procrastination. I know this is a common bad trait to most

of us but this habit has been passed on from generations. (I

really can’t explain why, but this has been a big problem in

our culture). This can also be proven with our disregard of

time. This habit commonly happens when you are facing a

difficult task or a task that you don’t like doing. Think

about those moments when you pointlessly delay doing

something. Most probably they are difficult to do, takes a

long time or you just don’t like doing it.

Fretz 2018 IlovePhilippines- The Infamous Mañana Habit retrieved date march 1 2022
https://steemit.com/philippines/@dawnsheree/i-love-philippines-the-infamous-manana-habit
Filipino’s are known for tremendous hospitality, generosity,

and different cultures yet some cultural trait are toxic.

One of the Filipino toxic traits is “Ningas Cogon“. Ningas-

kugon is lack sustained perseverance. It also means a

tendency among individuals to start a new venture or task

with too much enthusiasm and effort, but after some time

will take a pause or will suddenly stop working, until such

time that they lose interest in the venture or task. As a

Filipino cultural trait, it refers to the Filipino cultural

trait of enthusiastically starting things, but then quickly

losing enthusiasm soon after. So if you try to lit up a

‘cogon’ you would observe how it will just burn into flames

and poof… gone afterward. So the metaphor “ningas cogon” was

coined to mean projects, promises, or decisions that were

started on a high note but immediately stopped or were left

unfinished.

Unknown Ningas Cogon Mentality: Filipino Disappointing Trait retrieved date march 1 2022
https://2hottravellers.com/ningas-cogon-mentality-disappointing-trait/
Procrastination is delaying something one needs to do. It

was stated that it is evident when someone says “mamaya na”

or “saka na may ginagawa pa ako,” phrases manifesting the

characteristics of a procrastinator. it is considered

chronic if it is already habitual, when one does this for a

long time, or maybe trying to change such behavior that

recurs. In some studies, psychologists consider this

behavior as a “mechanism for coping with anxiety associated

with starting or completing any task or decision”. We

concluded that this type of problem may cause stress, guilt,

crisis, even excessive loss of productivity and these may

lead the person to even more procrastination. As such, that

thing called chronic procrastination may be a sign of

something more serious — a psychological disorder.

Evangelista Lucille 2015 Effects of Visualization on Academic Performance of College

Students retrieved date march 1 2022
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290465506_Effects_of_Visualization_on_Ac
ademic_Performance_of_College_Students
procrastination is seen as a part of the system, from

education to economy even to politics. The main reason is

that the country's common people as well as the authorities

tend to avoid any serious confrontation with their objective

challenges of poverty, criminality, corruption and systemic

oligarchy. Settling for paper resolutions that rhetorically

address these concerns, ordinary Filipinos postpone their

day of reckoning, moving from one day to the next with false

hopes that their nation's condition would improve - or, at

the very least, stabilize - through propitious divine

intervention or some other equally unfathomable. For them,

procrastination is the inevitable consequence of a long

history of their popular marginalization - of being

systematically political disempowered - that has left them

with little sense of efficacy in political life. They exist

as objects, largely at the mercy of willful governors; they

are not competent subjects able to contest or hold

accountable their political wardens.

Miranda Felipe B. (2003) Procrastination as a way of life retrieved date march 1 2022
https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2003/11/18/228364/procrastination-way-life
the word procrastination is derived from the word

“procrastinus” which means forward and tomorrow.

“Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent

tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more

pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and

thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes

to the “last minute” When teenager/students have a task to

do, especially if they have given a lot of time, one of the

initial reactions is to sit back and relax. Because of

having a lot of time to do it there is a tendency for them

to do some other stuff which will make them focus on doing

the task divert to other things. After having fun, the word

“start” pop-up that will lead them to panicking stage,

rushing their work for the sake of finishing it. The effect

of it is a low quality output because you only allotted a

short period of time to prepare it. Bullying, cheating or

drug abuse is not the most common problem of students

because those three are insidious but procrastination is the

most prevalent

Chua Queena Lee (2011) Rx for procrastination life retrieved date march 1 2022
https://www.scribd.com/document/257003979/Procrastination-Among-High-School-Students-
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