Procrastination
There is a lot written about procrastination and how to beat it. And am I going to write about it also? Yes. But slightly different, cause I have my own view on it.. In the first part, I’m going to tell you what the convential theory is, what you can read on any site. In part two, I’m going to write about my own view on procrastination. So whatever you are going to do, stay tuned!
Procrastination: What is it?
‘to defer action’ Keep pushing your actions forward, until there is no time anymore to do it. THAT is procrastination. When you have a test in four weeks, and you start to learn the day before the test, because ‘you had other things to do and studying could wait’ then you are procrastinating! When your mom tells you to clean your room or you can’t go to a party that evening and you keep playing on your ps2 and you start cleaning up after dinner, you are procrastinating!
So far the definition, you all probably know what procrastination is. Putting things off, wait to do something till the end of time.
How to stop procrastination
Procrastination can’t be a good thing, you get stressy and makes things which could be way better if you spend more time on it, right? So you need to stop this bad habit!
- Do it as the first thing you do. Shut everything off and do the task you need to do. Don’t do any other stupid activity before you have finished this one.
- Make it small chores. A big school project can’t be done in an afternoon with your computer, make tiny chunks from that big project and do those tiny chores!
- Make sure you want to do it. Think about what happens when you do what you are procrastinating now. And you will want to start!
- Just start. Or as some little shoe fabricator said: ‘Just do it.’ To start is the hardest part, but the most essential part! So, just start!
Procrastination is an enemy that we all should beat! In the next part about this subject, I’ll explain my own view on procrastination! Stay tuned..
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Just Start is by far the most useful piece of advice here. Once you get over that initial hump ‘in my opinion’ everything is gravy.
Agreed with VTAMETHODMAN. Once I start a task I go until im finished. However the process of starting is the hardest especially at college because there is always something more appealing and distracting going on around you.
Looking forward to hearing your view.
@VTAMethodman
Indeed, that first step is the hardest to take. When you are walking, you will get along with the proces of walking, but start walking, that is the hardest part!
@Ryan
At college there are indeed always distractions. When I am going to study, I like that to do on my own, but I don’t need an empty room, as long as the people who are in that room leaving me alone. I have spend a year with hours between classes when nobody else was free. These hours I used for working on school, in a room especially created for that use. It was full with other students, but they didn’t distract me, and I could work, on my own, and made the most of those hours!
Thanks for the comments guys!
1. Always keep a little TO DO list with you. Even if you think you don’t need to write down an intended action, WRITE it on this list anyway. By checking the DONE box, you get more satisfaction at the end of the day when you ask yourself “What have I done today?”
2. In many things that people do, their big problem is distraction. Try NOT to divert from your planned route, but write the intended diversion down on your TO DO list (see item 1). In that way you can decide later on if the intended distraction is (or was) needed anyway. E.g.: Don’t click immediately on any link you encounter when reading an online text. Wait for it till you are finished.
3. Whatever you do, do at least one useful action a day not for yourself, but for someone else. The respect you will get, makes you feel good. (So in the end it is an action for yourself anyway.) You see?