Procrastination: Is Your Future Self Getting A Bad Deal

Procrastination is a problem that many people have, but through work can be overcome. The website gave me the useful tip of starting in small, manageable steps towards

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

Another thing I could relate the procrastination to is a lack of motivation. In high school I didn’t have to do much studying or spend time writing long papers or doing assignments. So when I came to college I thought it would be the same way and I quickly learned that the college work load is much different and more intense than a high school work load. This was a major factor in my GPA being where it was. I was not extremely motivated to be taking all the general education classes I was enrolled in and therefore did not invest the time that I should have. Having a good GPA is not a primary instinct like hunger or thirst, it is taught to you that you should strive to have a good GPA. Hunger, thirst, sleep, and sex are all primary drives of motivation and are all biological needs.

Procrastination is a disease that I have almost cured myself of. I tend to put off assignments until the last minute, a false allusion of being able to working under pressure. While I usually perform well on procrastinated assignments, an essay graded with a B could have easily been an A, if I had put in more time working on the assignment. This semester, I know that I will continue working on assignments earlier than usual in order to achieve better grades on my assignments and improve my GPA.

Procrastination has a lot to do with our daily habits and how we let our daily tasks overwhelm us. I used to be really bad at thinking all I need is twenty minutes to get ready and ill wait exactly till I have twenty minutes to leave. Suddenly that twenty minutes turned into thirty or forty minutes and then I became late.

One way I could overcome procrastination is to have a planner that is “…an electronic calendar on your phone… (pg., 26). This will help because I am always on my phone and It will notify me when I should be doing my homework, instead of me writing on a paper planner, and forget where I put it and have to spend my time looking for it this will save me time and I will be able to actually catch up with all my work because I usually don’t like using a planner but an electronic one could fix that

Each college student will face procrastination at some point in her college career. It is an epidemic of the academic world. Depending on the student it will impact her sleeping habits, grades, and overall health. However, each student will handle it differently. Some will depart from college with minimal stress and others with grey hairs. Either way, procrastination will surely be a part of the college world

Before the course I was already trying to take control of my procrastination. I knew that in university would be more complex and exponentially greater than what it is now. In the course, the class went over went over time-management tips to balance due dates and assignments. I’ve found that making lists of what you need to do helps me ring in my procrastination issues. I can visualize what I need to get done and when I am done a task, I get the satisfaction of crossing it off my list. Furthermore, with the impending doom that is exams, I can proudly say that instead of waiting until the last week before the exams to start studying, I have been studying since before New Year’s

Procrastination is not a good habit at all, it impedes me to accomplish my goals, tasks, or Appointments right and on time. Procrastination is “the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention”. Procrastination is a huge problem in my life, it has come to affect my grades at college, some friendships, even my happiness and my peace of mind. Normally I set objectives myself, and to fulfill them, something basic and essential is to keep my schedule to just get the process done and reach a positive outcome! But guess what? Here comes Mr. Procrastination again! I can never get up early and that trigger an enormous domino effect that affects my whole day, because if I do not wake up at a good time, I will not have enough time, to do homework, studying, going to the gym and going to work. But as time goes on I realized it is very simple to

Procrastination, over long periods of time, builds a habit. It may start off small, like purposefully snoozing your alarm clock for that extra ten minutes of sleep. However, if you look at the rest of the day, you might not have noticed that everything you did got pushed back ten minutes. The same concept goes for schooling. When you procrastinate doing your homework, the time you spend doing it gets pushed back later and later until

An estimated 90% of college students procrastinate, and 25% of these students are chronic procrastinators, and lots of them drop out of college (Knaus, 2010). Majority of college students claim to be procrastinators which in the end hurts them. Some Psychologists even think that procrastination is a learned behavior (Marano, 2010). This learned behavior could come from other students that surround you or it could come from parents who put off taxes and paying bills, which in turn shows the child that it is okay to push things off to the

Sometimes procrastination can get you killed, this becomes true when you put off your medical condition or you put off having that surgery you need just because you don't want to take the time to do so. We as human beings tend to stray away from the thing we do not enjoy doing, that explains why I did not want to do my junior paper because writing isn't my most favorite thing to do. I honestly do not believe there is anything good that could come from procrastination, because the time you spent procrastinating cannot be given back to you it is considered wasted time. Also being a procrastinator can affect your reputation, nobody ever wants to be known as the person who cannot keep their word. So take a word from the wise procrastination is not

When I was in high school some of my teachers would tell me that procrastination are for incompetent and lazy people. I don’t agree completely since they are not wrong about lazy people having to procrastinate several times including myself, but there are effective ways in procrastinating that I have learned throughout the years. An effective strategy I discovered, but I’m not sure if this works for others as well is that procrastinator effectiveness can be respected and admired for all we can accomplish and the good use we make of our time being. Having a structured procrastination is the art of making this “bad” trait work for me.

In my study, laziness is the most common reason student procrastinate. Timothy A Pychyl, a professor who specializes in the study of procrastination says “procrastinators often remark that they lack the motivation necessary to act. They have an intention to act, but they fail to act in a timely fashion even though they recognize

An equally important cause for procrastinating could be the laziness one might have. For a college student, several amounts of homework could be assigned within the first week of school, but the professor might state that those specific assignments to that class will be due at the end of the semester. So, one would say to themselves that there is plenty of time not to worry, so the student kicks back and worries about other things. Once, the end of the semester comes the person could have forgotten about the assignment that was given in the beginning of their school year. Now, there is little time to get the tasks finished and turned in, while other teachers in other classes might have assigned homework for the same due date as the other professor. Of course, at this point, the student regrets the decision that he or she might have made to procrastinate until a couple of days before the due date, now the