I Won T Procrastination-Personal Narrative

If it says anything, I only write weekly in the summer and daily during the school year. School - absolutely necessary - is the only reason I do so. Though I hate to say it, writing for pleasure should be a fun activity because of no rules or how abstract you can be. Unfortunately, I only write for school, which increases my writing fairly quickly, resulting in me having quite a workload. For example, last summer I was assigned The Life of Pi and Into the Wild. I looked at my summer reading the 20th, and it was due the 28th. I had to rush my assignments in only three days. The workload was awful to be hit with all at once, because I had to work at a decent time. From this moment on, I learned procrastination is

So staying to true form after facing the two big issues causing my procrastination I immediately began procrastinating my solving procrastination. However after two days I realized that this really was a problem that needed solving right here and now. So I began to brainstorm how I could solve my problem. The next week of the class couldn’t have come at a better time since we focused mainly on procrastination. After reviewing my notes from that class and looking to the textbook for advice, I found the solutions to my first problem to-do lists, calendars, timers, and specific study and work times with

In most of the letters that I read some said the advice "don't procrastinate" and, that is one of the things that I use to do. I use to procrastinate most of my days with out even realizing it especially on homework. Every time that I had to do homework, I would always find an excuse for example "I'm hungry let me eat first", "I

     To procrastinate is to put off doing something out of casual carelessness or common laziness. It often needlessly postpones or delays events or objectives in your life which can effect others. Procrastination is almost like a drug in your life, because once you start doing it a little bit, it slowly adds up to a dependency that you will find to be common habit. Although this is what we all perceive procrastination to be bad, there are some benefits to it. It can have beneficial impact on how you take pressure, or how well you can act when time is limited.

5.      Though I’ve only touched on a couple, there are many more reasons for procrastinating such as fear of anxiety or failure and even personnel or financial problems. So, you might be asking, how do I know if I’m a procrastinator or not? Well, this brings me to my second point, symptoms of procrastination. One of the worst aspects of procrastination is postponement. When one is postponing an important task, it becomes very difficult to enjoy recreational activities. One is socializing with friends or watching a film, and there is this nagging thought, "I should be working." A dark cloud of guilt hangs over your head and dampens any pleasure you might be extracting from the distractions of the moment. So, by not getting things done in a reasonably and timely manner, or not done at all, precious opportunities have been lost.

Procrastination is ignoring your responsibilities and avoiding them for no good reason. Experiencing procrastination can have a positive or negative reaction according to the amount of the behavior. The person that is procrastinating must first realize that they have a problem in order to find ways to overcome procrastination because they are putting their health, family and job at risk. Twenty percent of people realize they are procrastinators which in the end becomes a lifestyle. There are various reasons why people procrastinate.

Transition: It is in our human nature to procrastinate, some of us do it more than others but learning about this problem and understanding how it can effect you can be beneficial to everyone

Attention Getter: So I’m pretty sure everyone here has had an important assignment to complete before like a project or essay. And most of us usually plan it out where we do a portion of it every day. For example, something like this chart here. But then the next thing you know, the deadline is fast approaching and you still haven’t come close to completing your assignment. And we end up somewhere like this. Well, I believe that we can all relate to this and we have all done this to ourselves before. I’m talking about procrastination.

I though it would be interesting to Google Be Still and see the results from the worlds perspective. One of the first results was a video clip from the movie Karate Kid. Now the original movie came out in 1984 and was a huge hit, but his clip came from the 2010 remake. I have not seen the movie, nor am I recommending it. I am sure it is filled with eastern and new age mysticism, however the short sentence spoken in this clip was fascinating. The scene depicts a teacher giving instruction to his student and says, “Doing nothing and Being Still are two very different things.” That really struck me. All too often for me, being still equates to doing nothing and then my mind begins to wander. Be Still in the context of Psalm 46 is not

Here is how I plan to do it. Join me if you too have been a writing procrastinator for far too long.

Instructions: Your outline should look EXACTLY like this one (i.e. same numbering, same sections, same spacing, etc.). Simply delete the blue text and replace it with your own black text.

“I’ll stop procrastinating…Tomorrow.” This is a mindset that is possessed by a majority of students today. Although putting off writing that English paper until the night before it is due may not seem like a big deal, it has many harmful effects. In fact, what better topic is there for that English paper? Very few are spared from the epidemic known as procrastination. Even less overcome this issue. In order to successfully defeat procrastination, we must first understand it.

Many people believe that procrastination is derived completely from laziness but the culprit could be multiple things, including perfectionism. This can become a huge problem for perfectionists, especially perfectionist students. They most likely will overthink projects and put off getting started because they’re afraid they won’t be able to make them as perfect as they want them to be. Luckily this is a common issue among students and there are many different techniques to cope with it. Students can overcome procrastination due to perfectionism by setting S.M.A.R.T goals, creating detailed to-do lists, and by just getting started.

Have you ever had an essay due in three weeks and thought to yourself, “I’ve got time. I’ll just do it later”? Does staying up studying for an exam until 3 am in the morning sound familiar? How about running to class because you were working on a project until the very last second? If any of these unfortunate situations sound relatively familiar, you have endured the horrendous event of procrastination at some point of your jam-packed life. The one secret that nobody is enforcing on your young life is the extreme power of time management. In Chapter 5, the topics we address are as follows:

(Technique 2: style/voice) My first essay on procrastination was a narrative research essay. It comprised of research on a topic that was supported with my own experiences. This essay, in particular, I believe was very strong due to its style and voice. I tend to incorporate humor and modesty in my writing so as to better appeal to my audience. I could have all the textual and factual evidence in the world, but it will always fall short in comparison to meaningful experiences. This type of writing cannot be done without the appropriate use of style and