Procrastination the curse of my existence; an endless cycle that has the potential to control my life
I am quite experienced in this particular area of concern as I am sure many of you are too. Right now, for instance, I am putting off working on hours worth of homework by browsing through Progressive U and writing.
Procrastination can be the mask to your true potential in certain areas. For me, I mostly target school. I could probably excell much more academically if I had better work habits.
We procrastinate to put off undesirable tasks. I mean we may KNOW that NOT doing said tasks could have severe consequences. Self discipline is a mountain I strive to conquer.
Several of you reading this probably have no clue what I'm talking about. I've seen the likes of you, you who have amazing work habits and self discipline that push you to fulfill your potential.
What's your secret?!
I know there's different degrees of procrastination that that can take hold of unlikely victims. There's the kind of people that fall under just the occasional spell of putting things off, while others will let it take hold of their lives. I fall somewhere in between the two (except right now...I'm leaning towards the latter).
While I know the simple solution to this problem is just to get over it and do the task, its a habit hard to break. Once this cycle is initiated, it can get increasingly worse until it seems there's no hope! Sometimes I'll go through phases where I think I've broken the habit, but then I fall right back into it again. I suppose its a normal to have this issue, and talking/writing about it won't make it go away.
So I'm off to go do that not-so-fun task called homework.
I can completely sympathize with you on the whole procrastinating on Progressive U instead of doing homework. I am sitting right here in front of my work, yet I choose not to do it. I believe part of the problem for me is that the desk I do my homework on has my computer on it. Being an easily distracted teen, it lures me into its grasp but I willingly go to it. My procrastination has gotten really bad this year. I have SEVERE SENIORITIS. I don't feel like doing anything and I just want to laze around. I like being productive...just not schoolwork. It seems like such a chore now that I am very near that finish line called GRADUATION.
I generally have pretty good work habits though. I have anal AP/honor student blood in me that even if I put it off, I MUST get it done on time.
Everything you stated above, I could say for myself...procrastination is a problem for me, especially being a senior in high school. It's a bad habit, but I know I can break it if I just have a little self motivation, and get organized. I think that's really the key to getting things done.
Procrastination is a way people deal with stress, for me, it's school work. I don't want to do an assignment so I put it off until the absolute last minute (which just creates more stress). So I guess, I am just making things hard on myself...and that's got to change. Something I suggest doing is to create a checklist of everything you need done. Somehow it's quite satisfying to check something off of the list, a sense of some accomplishment...
"Let's not put off 'til tomorrow what ought to be done today"
-my pastor always says that
-Amanda-
yeah right after I wrote this and got off the computer, I made a checklist. It helped move things along a bit.
Glad to hear that...
-Amanda-