Why do I procrastinate? Why do I always end up saving work for the last minute? Does it make me get it done faster because I know the deadline is quickly approaching?
I wish I knew the answers. Somehow I can only manage to do work until the very last minute. I know this is not healthy. I know if I have time to proofread and check over my work, my grades will be improve. But, as easy as that sounds, I can never put my plans into action. Freshman year, procrastination seems to be a widespread disease- like the plague to all students. There are so many other options of how to spend your time, why would anyone study? I know my parents will not accept poor grades from me so somehow I have to cure my bad habits.
I hate the stress and anxiety of knowing I later have to give up things that I want to do because I have waited until the last minutes. Even then I find myself distracted… Any suggestions?
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I do the same thing. Procrastination has always been a problem for me, but it seems that since coming to college and being even more independent, I seem to put tasks off even more. I always seem to get them done, but as I am turning in that paper I think is this the best work I could have done? or when I get that paper back and get a good grade I always think I could have done even better if I had just started earlier. I then promise myself that next time it will be different but it never is. I guess maybe one of these days I will learn that getting things done early actually does pay off.
The A-LEC has people that can help you break the procrastination habit. They sometimes have workshops on it, but call and see if they have any handouts or just somebody who can give you some tips. Procrastination happens when people fear that they will not do the job perfectly, so they get too anxious to start at all. Or they have a mild ADD that makes them anxious about how to get started--what shoudl I do first???Oh, it's too hard to decide, so I'll go out. You might need help, just like Mike Rose needed help.
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