One of the best ways for an individual to prevent him- or herself from procrastinating is by identifying and overcoming the factors that cause an individual to procrastinate in the first place. There are a variety of reasons that an individual can procrastinate, however, so it may sometimes be difficult for an individual to identify the exact reason that he or she is avoiding a particular task. In fact, even if an individual can identify the exact reason that he or she is procrastinating, it is likely that the individual may not understand why that particular factor is causing him or her to procrastinate. As a result, it can be important for an individual to understand how each cause contributes to the individual's desire to procrastinate so the individual can avoid each of these causes more effectively. In other words, if the individual finds a particular subject boring, why does he or she avoid tasks related to that subject even though he or she knows that those tasks have to be completed? This may seem rather complicated, but it is basically a question of separating the factors that cause procrastination into different groups depending on how those factors affect each individual. In fact, procrastinators can actually be divided into two groups based on the underlying feelings that an individual has or the underlying feelings that the individual is attempting to avoid when a particular factor causes the individual to procrastinate. These two groups are often referred to as relaxed procrastinators and tense-afraid procrastinators.