It 's one thing to talk about how I want Ai Seattle to help me, but it would all be meaningless if I don 't help myself first. There are several challenges ahead of me, but I feel more empowered to tackle them than ever before. The biggest and most immidiate issue in front of me is roughly 3000 miles of America. Disregarding that, the next biggest issue I 'm facing is my own procrastination. Now, for the record, I 'm not the biggest procrastinator I know, but I do have a history of poor choices in this area.
Procrastination already wasted four years of my exercising time, but I shall not let that continue anymore. McGonical suggests, “if you tell yourself that you are too tired or don’t have the time to exercise, start thinking of exercise as something that restores, not draining your energy and willpower”(45). I actually agree with this strategy; in fact, it has already worked on me. The last time I exercised, I felt really powerful and energized afterward. Then I felt like I could not stop, yet I do not have the fitness to continue, or else I would exercise for a longer time.
Wayne Gretzky once said… “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” Many people should take advice like that to heart, but I was one of those people who regret not taking it. Intermittently my mom would knock on my door and ask, “Have you started your homework?” I would reply each time without hesitation, “Not yet
The Seven Deadly Sins: Ms. Procrastinator I remember when I was in elementary school, I had a project to do. We had to make a family tree and then it was going to be displayed outside the classroom for everyone in the school to see. Now what would have been best for me to do is get right on my project. But knowing me, I waited literally til the day it was due to tell my mom I had to make a family tree in my class. Even though she was probably furiated I waited all this time, she helped me with my family tree anyways.
In the poem, “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” by Shel Silverstein, the theme, don’t procrastinate, connects to my life. For example, when I was in fifth grade, I had to complete Math worksheets as a morning warm up. If I didn’t finish those worksheets, I would have to keep it in my folder to hand in later. Same thing goes for Reading and Social Studies homework. Instead of doing my work like I was supposed to do, I completely slacked off on it.
I agree with this, self-control is necessary in order to put priorities over wants. Alena Hall writes this in her article, “A lack of self-control causes procrastinators to have problems when it comes to finishing tasks -- even some of the most simple and basic ones” (Hall, 2014). I would even say that the lack of self-control is the cause of procrastination in many cases. However if a person doesn 't feel adequately equipped for a job, or if they are scared of failure, the same results may ensue. Likewise, part of my struggle with procrastination is because I’m a perfectionist.
During the Procrastination Test, I received a score of 23 out of 100. My results state that I have a slight tendency to procrastinate. This is a fairly good score that I am content with, but I can always improve my procrastination toward various things. The ways I can improve my procrastination habits by break my work into little steps, changing my environment, and hanging out people who motivate me. The process of breaking my work into little steps will allows me to focus on aspect at a time and make sure everything I have to do is completed.
This is an issue which has affected me personally throughout high school, one which I have learned to deal with as the years have gone on. I can proudly say I feel a much lower level of anxiety about school than I did as a freshman, even though the stakes are higher now. I believe this is because I have matured and learned to better deal with stress and time-management, which has not been universal, as I proved in my previous examples. In general, adults remind us often to not procrastinate, but their advice has not been effective for many students. I believe this is because the problem is bigger than that; it goes beyond individual students who procrastinate, and speaks to our society as a
Take away cabs, limos and delivery trucks, take away secretaries, file cabinets, political strategies inside buildings that run-on words, and there are Sundays at the park between Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials in Washington DC. Oh God of human vibrations and charismatic dances! Thank you for this retinue of human nature in the natural light of an irresistible Seventh day morning… jogging, juggling, volleyball, basketball, freaky Frisbee, American soccer, and chess under the trees…global polyglot of languages incandescent as children’s eyes…girls running on zig-zagging long legs, chasing nothing but echoes in their mad pursuit of earth, air and light …while fathers chase crazy kites across unused baseball fields, teaching young sons to dream. In quiet places above body’s dalliance, lovers picnic on verdant green, in soft patois of Portugese, Afghani, Szechuan, Catalan and Farsi…primal sounds of an eternal not available to the imagination. On old sidewalks young minds rollerblade to boom boxes percussing with James Brown’s slide and glide, while ancient circles of young girls watch casually, carefully structuring distances between rollicking boys and lovers on the hill…
Procrastination is the worst choice for me. Time management was a key part of life that my mother wanted me to learn; work first, sleep
Punctuality is a valuable trait to acquire. There is no simple way of saying it, but to just nip it in the bud. Procrastination is too much of a bad habit to prolong.
People are likely to procrastinate in their daily routine. III.Procrastination is an act of needlessly putting off tasks to the point of experiencing subjective discomfort” (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984, p.503) A. According to Van Eerde, 2003 Procrastination can be defined as a person intentionally delaying completing a task due to people having differing perceptions regarding delaying work. B. The reason procrastinators gave when they are procrastinating is that they have another important tasks to do.
Intentionally delaying the work on my writing assignments was the obstacle that I needed to overcome. Procrastination had a negative impact on my grades and resulted in unnecessary stress. According to Eric Jaffee, I am not the only one that became stressed as a result of procrastination. “In research settings, people who procrastinate have higher levels of stress and lower well-being” (Jaffe). I understood that I had work that needed be done, but I did not understand at the time that the proper amount of work to produce a polished paper was far more massive than I had anticipated.
Sometimes it is a responsibility that needs to be confronted. The stress of a deadline leads to procrastination, but this does not relieve stress. The deadline catches up, and regret sinks in. Once I had no cares in the world, I would partake in this habit regularly. The ninth grade was a realization for me.
Finally, to back up my opinion, “Procrastinators end up suffering more and performing worse than other people” (why wait? The science behind procrastination). In conclusion we get that procrastination negatively affects decision making and doesn’t give you the chance to finish your
