One of my self-defeating emotions patterns is that I always fear of doing writing assignments both in my mother tongue-Vietnamese or my second language-English. Sometimes, my mind goes blank when I start to write. I have no idea what I should write. Even if I’m sitting there for a while, I still wonder “how can I start the essay?” Therefore, I usually put it to the side and say to myself that I need a couple days to explore the idea and I only start to do it when the deadline is coming close. For example, 2 years ago, I had to write a report paper about my probation period because it was one of the conditions to get the associate degree. However, I put it off for a whole month knowing that I only had a month and a week to do it. Finally, I