I look at the clock on my Chromebook. the time reads 3:34. I would be awake again in less than 3 hours, and the project was less than halfway done. I had all week to finish it, but I had only managed to click the start project button on Canva. Thus, my current situation was imminent; staying up late the day before the project was due, editing, and finishing the entire project. Through the numerous full class periods, we had to work on it, I had stalled to the very last minute. I even had all day to do it, but I waited around and even went to an NFL game all the way up in Detroit, just for the browns to lose again. although that predicament was rough, it was still the best grade I've gotten on a project.
Yes and no. If there is a project that I want to do I will do it very quickly. When I am assigned something, most of the timeI will wait for the very last day to do it. In some situations for me procrastinating helped me, I will be under more pressure to get something done and I work well under pressure. Furthermore, if I am assigned a project and I am busy, I will wait till the last day I have to finish it. I procrastinate waking up in the morning by saying five more minutes every time my alarm goes off. I procrastinate cleaning my room every day because I have other things to do like homework. I procrastinate doing my laundry because I know how long it will take me to finish all of it. In this article Charlotte Lieberman says “People engage in this irrational cycle of chronic procrastination because of an inability to manage negative moods around a task”. If I am in a good mood I am way more likely to clean my room, do my homework on time, wake up earlier and so much more. If I am in a bad mood I am going to go home after school and just sleep and watch tv. In example, when I was in sixth grade my teacher assigned us this huge project and it was worth over 30% of our grade. We had the weekend to complete it but instead of doing it each night, I got distracted by my tv and my phone. On that Sunday I had to work as fast as I could to complete it because I had woken up late. I did end up finishing it but it was probably not my best work.
“Are You a Procrastinator?”
As I struggle to deny my tendency for procrastination, the words rephrase in my head. The thought of stalling. I can remember setting the alarm for when I'm going to start working. When my phone starts to beep…“Just five more minutes,” I'll say again. The deadline that stamps my brain seems to fade as another late assignment is pushed off again.
I am a procrastinator, which seems to be the reason why I am just barely passing one of my classes. When I get home from school to catch up on work, I fall asleep. I’ll try to set an alarm but end up getting more time. I think my procrastination comes from wanting to sleep or play because I believe I have more time than I do.
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I am definitely a procrastinator. Procrastination is definitely negatively affecting my performance at school, and it’s a pretty big problem. Procrastination plays a big part in me being able to complete my assignments on time, and being able to finish all of my homework. I do try to focus on my homework, but I’m just not motivated enough to be able to stay focused. It's a problem I have to work on, but I'll work on getting better with it.
I am most definitely a procrastinator. I tend to put off things that I either don’t want to do, or don’t interest me. I don’t procrastinate with everything tho. Whenever I want to procrastinate, I either just let myself put things off until the last minute, or I force myself to do what I need to do. Procrastination always ends badly. For example, last year I had a huge project that we had a month to complete. I kept putting it off until the week it was due. That week was probably one of the most stressful weeks ever. I was crying and I was just so stressed and overwhelmed. I hated myself for procrastinating. So I ended up turning the project in a day late and I got an okay grade. I personally think that procrastination is one of the worst things to ever exist. Everyone has procrastinated at least once in their life, and that's okay. We have to try to procrastinate as little as possible, or else we will face the consequences.
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I have completed my masters but I intend to pursue research and therefore I am still into academics. Throughout my life as a student i have been a procrastinator, never realised it was an emotional issue. In school and college I didn't really have any responsibilities so putting off important tasks was often for leisure. However, I would pull all-nighters and get things done by the last date. But more recently I find myself struggling emotionally to start some important work like organising my data, writing reports or writing a paper. I have tried the 5 minute rule (it might be called by different names but what it means is to devote atleast 5 minute in the work that you are supposed to do but are not feeling like it. Sometimes once you get engrossed for 5 minutes you lose track of time and work for a little more time. By the time you realise, you already get interested in the work enough to finish it to an extent) to deal with my procrastrination. It has worked on sometimes. But at other times I find myself so repelled by the idea of starting a certain task that makes me feel anxious. It really becomes difficult at times like these. I don't know if it is really procrastination or something else.
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I would say I'm a recovering procrastinator. I've definitely gotten better at actually doing homework. but I feel like I've fallen off a cliff this week. I feel like it stems from me not being able to get out of bed on the weekend. I still wake up at 6:30 but it takes a couple hours usually before I can actually get out of bed. It's kinda weird nectar I really want to get it of bed but for some reason I feel like I can't. And I'm pretty sure that if my mom came into my room and suggested I do something I'd get out of bed just fine.
@Lilly F I completely agree with your thoughts. You said that "it stems from not getting out of bed on the weekend", which thinking about it that makes a lot of sense. I feel less productive on the weekends and then sleeping in later adds to that. When the week starts I just feel tired and not productive. Like you said people want to get out of bed but they just can't, I think this is because all week we are getting out of bed and going to school and doing a lot of work, then all of the sudden we actually get 7 hours of sleep. Our bodies probably never get enough sleep on weekdays because of school. I loved your prospective on this topic.
I’ve always had trouble with procrastination and as I get older it gets worse. I usually wait till the last minute to get things done and I know its not good for me, but I can't stop. I’ve tried many times to fix my problem but failed, I always though my laziness got the best of me.
After reading this article, I know it's not my laziness that affects me its because I associate homework with bad moods like boredom. In the article I read some of the ways to help with the problem like putting obstacles in the way to make the immediate reward of procrastination harder to get to. I think this is a great idea because I tend to waste my time for homework with watching YouTube and making that harder might make me want to work for once. I plan on trying to use the techniques suggested in the article for future assignments to hopefully break my habit once and for all.
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In fifth grade I had this huge project due for my science class and I put off doing it until the night before it was due because I was nervous that no matter what I did, I wouldn’t get a good grade. Instead of doing the logical thing and working on it each night, perfecting it to the best of my abilities, I sat each night and worried myself sick about the fact that I wasn’t doing it in the first place. Although I know that it is not worth the loss of sleep to procrastinate until I can’t anymore, I still procrastinate from time to time. I am currently learning how to have more faith in myself and how to have a better outlook on having to focus on school work even when I don’t want to.
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In the featured article, Charlotte talks about how the root of all procrastination comes from our mood and not the way we manage our time. I can be a procrastinator sometimes and other times I like to get work done right away. When I don’t particularly feel up to doing homework after a long day at school I tend to put it off until I’m so tired that I end up doing the homework the next morning before school.
After reading this article I now realize that the reason I procrastinate on writing essays and doing projects is that I doubt that I have the ability to complete the work and get a good grade on it. I know I am quite capable of anything I put my mind to but when I see a page of instructions for an assignment I begin to have anxiety and that’s when the procrastination starts. I am aware that I have a problem with procrastination so I try to catch myself when I start to procrastinate and I take a step back and remind myself that I’m trying the hardest that I can.
As a part of my english AP class they proceeding remarks will be a part of an extra credit assignment. procrastination effects everybody to some degree, some more than others, but I feel as though at the rate of which I am becoming less and less motivated to do my school work, then I will not be able perform well in college unless i can turn my work ethic in two years. Procrastination will always be an issue until the human race is gone. The only thing that we can do is to find ways to motivate us to do our work or use it to our advantage. This ends my statement and I do hope that this is enough to earn bonus points on the STUDENT OPINION assignment.
I would say I’m in between with being a procrastinator and not being one. I say this because I don’t procrastinate on homework assignments I more procrastinate on studying for a test or a quiz. If I’m doing a big project for school I will most likely start on it early because I never know what kind of homework I will have later on when I’m still doing my project. Also I like to take my time on projects because I don’t want to rush on something when it is probably worth alot.
I procrastinate when studying because a lot of times I'm studying for 3 different classes which can sometimes be very stressful and also the memorization of studying is just exhausting as well. I know I should probably go ahead and start studying before but the thing is I also have just so much other homework I have to do too.
Being a procrastinator is something I really want to work on. For an example if a teacher says I have test Monday I should take the time from my weekend studying when I don’t have that much homework. So I just need to stop being a procrastinator because that’s probably stressing me out even more.
Even though it is hard to say, I am a procrastinator. I will normally put off doing a assignment for something else like an assignment that is due the next day or anything I find more interesting at the moment. It has gotten so bad that I would even put off math homework till the next day and do it in my free period. When the end of the year became more closer, I started not worrying about when I start a project or homework and how much effort I put into it. I think the biggest source of my procrastination is lack of interest. I saw this article and related so much to words in it. Many times I have tried to get ahold of my life and set up a calendar and agenda. That way I have times where I just sit down and finish assignments, but my calendar is still set to January. It made a lot of sense to me that procrastination isn’t laziness, but it is about managing emotions. I didn’t really procrastinate much in the past, but last year was a very stressful year and it felt like I could never get assignments done early. I hope that after a little time off, I can rethink the year and find out what really stressed me out and fix it. Social media was a big problem for me as well. Instead of finishing homework, I would be on social media. I think if I am more calm in stressful situations and be focused on the real world instead of social media I might be happier with the time and effort of my assignments.
Procrastination is not a major conflict I suffer with as I like to finish my work first then have fun. Usually, I would come back from school, eat (if I'm hungry) then get started on my school work. Personally, I feel more accomplished and less stressed that way as I won't have to worry or deal with missing or late work; I like to stay on top of things. I believe the reason why some individuals procrastinate is distractions and/or don't feel like doing the work. For example, social media, tv shows, movies, etc... are all distractions that teens (mostly) face. They'll say: "Oh, 20 more minutes and I'll get working" or "Just one more episode", then end up staying up all night finishing their school work or rushingly working on it in the morning. These are all poor habits that need to be mended. The author mentions that the reason procrastination occurs is "because of bad moods", and I somewhat agree. To me, even if I am not in the best mood, I still try to finish my work early. Sometimes, I find working on something can be a good distraction that helps me get my mind off of something going on in my life. On the other hand, battling a bad mood and negative moods takes a toll on you sometimes, which results in delaying tactics. In my opinion, avoiding procrastination can immensely impact the way you accomplish work and will also benefit you in the long run.
I believed that people hang up things for different reasons. Most of the procrastination is based on the environment. Can you imagine that you put an important assignment into the bottom of your computer desk? When I was doing my work, I actually did hide my work and delaying it for three weeks. When the teacher founded me and asking about the missing work. I finally recollected this remaining assignment. I clearly remembered the feeling that I hate to accomplish this homework. It is better to delay for three weeks, rather than typing on the computer for 1 hour. Everyone has a comfortable zone inside their brain. We tend to do things easy for us. The things we are familiar with and skillful on it. However, we must face different difficulties in our life which out of our comfort zone. Honestly, those are challenges. People may fail on the first try that making a negative response for the brain. Then our brain tells us: “Just give up!” So that people stop trying and delaying the problem which is waiting to be solved. Degree of difficulty affects the rate that people delay the work.
It’s hard to admit it but, I’m definitely a procrastinator. I procrastinate either because I don’t feel like working on anything or It’s because I have other assignments. That are due that I also procrastinated on. It started to become a really hard habit to get rid of. I have all these rigorous classes that make me want to scratch my eyes. Sometimes it isn’t such a bad thing though. When I do the assignments last-minute usually it makes me work 10 times harder since i’m more stressed. It obviously doesn’t work all the time because most people just start being lazy and just turn in there assignment with little to no effort done . By reading this article there were some particular alternatives that seemed to interest me. For example the author suggest Make your temptations more inconvenient: It’s still easier to change our circumstances than ourselves,...According to Ms. Rubin, we can take what we know about procrastination and “use it to our advantage” by placing obstacles between ourselves and our temptations to induce a certain degree of frustration or anxiety. If you compulsively check social media, delete those apps from your phone or “give yourself a really complicated password with not just five digits, but 12,”. By using this simple suggestion I might be able to use my time wisely and to my advantage. Which could really help me with further projects.
@Madison Figueroa I agree that putting obstacles in your way is a great way to lower the amount of time you procrastinate. I'm currently trying that and so far it's working, I'm getting more work done than I use to.
Just like Libby, I would love to consider myself a good student suffering from a terrible procrastination problem. When I work, I often find myself doing nothing until the last minute. These unfortunate events, like the Libby experience, stem from my choice to spend more time in a different activity more meaningful to me. As Professor Fuchia Siroa discussed, procrastination is an important aversion to trying to manage negative emotions associated with a task. So when it comes to schoolwork - the tasks I usually associate with the feelings of monotony and frustration - the attraction of video games and the Internet - things that I associate with happiness and excitement - are irresistible. For me, this attitude, shared by many students, reveals something wrong with American schools. In America, the most important things for students are their grades and tests, usually more than the pursuit of learning itself. As a result of this priority, distance education and hard work papers dominate classrooms while limiting the student's ability to explore the theme - the essence of learning - which may actually be exciting or wonderful for students. No wonder children delay work. The issue of school procrastination should be addressed by making work more interesting and satisfying to students. As Libby discussed, procrastination can lead to self-doubt and insecurity in young Americans
I rather have something done perfectly than turn it in on time. Currently I have two math quizzes to makeup and a few in chemistry but here's the catch, it's the last day of the grading period. I literally want to look back on my life and scream. I know this is self sabotage but at the same time I haven't found a good enough reward just like the article said. When I’m rewarded, my grades skyrocket, but my motivation as of late is zero to none and nothing has really changed that in the the last year. This all derives from my anxiety, also along with my overall tiredness doing day to day scenarios. I don’t want my teacher to see my work if I can’t make it exactly how I want, fearing that they’ll be disappointed said work is less than par. So I put it off until I feel like I can do it perfectly, which always happens to be at the last minute.
Grades don’t rule my life like some students but fear does, and tiredness. After trying my best at school it’s easy to say I’m mentally exhausted. Not having an elective besides two foreign languages can really knock a person out. I’ve unfortunately picked up the bad habit of falling asleep right after school, just a 4 hour cat nap. I wake up eat and try to force myself to get an honestly enormous pile of homework done. Some days I go right to work after school as a hostess and have to start homework around 9pm. I wish I wasn’t a procrastinator but old habits die hard. I'm not lazy, I'm just not motivated.
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I know for a fact that I am a procrastinator, isn't everybody in their own way though? I think everybody procrastinates, even if they don't know they are doing it. For me, it depends on what the assignment or task is. At least procrastination will get me to do other things like clean my room or do my laundry, but I will pretty much do everything besides the assignment I was assigned. I don't always procrastinate though. Sometimes if it's something I don't want to do, I'll still do it on time or early. Personally I think I am a procrastinator and I think everybody can be a procrastinator, even the perfect straight A students.
Procrastination, like many other of high schoolers, is a semi-problem in my life. I usually would do it late in the night, in the morning, or some other last-minute time to finish my homework or projects. This year, I have worked on slowly minimizing and forcing myself into good habits. These include: going home and immediately working on my work, for projects I would work little by little once I receive the project, and making myself not work late or in the morning. Sleep and work is a key part of highschool because you need to sleep to concentrate, and if I can work on not procrastinating, I can improve my work ethic, grades, and performance overall.
I don't think procrastination is a bad think as long as the thing you waited for a long time to do gets done in time. Many people actually learn better waiting at the last minute like for studying for a test.I have learned that if I wait to study for a test I do better than if I were to study days before.
@Daniel V It really good to get things done before time. You never know the future.
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I feel that there are more causes for procrastinate besides bad moods. While this can be true sometimes, it is not the only cause for procrastination. I do agree that it can be a major factor in contributing to procrastination. But there are also many other factors to take into account for. You could have a plethora of reason. "Hey, are you taking a while because you're upset or mad?". If you were to ask someone that, you'd be assuming why they are taking so long, which could be offensive to some people. It's like assuming that someone is sad because something major has happened. For all you know they could just be having a not so great day. Assuming why someone is procrastinating is as offensive as assuming they hate how they look. It's not right so don't do it. Instead, why not just ask them if there's an issue, not just emotion wise, but as in work wise, or anything for that matter.
I used to procrastinate, but I have found it easier to work hard and get it done as quick as you can. I usually work really hard the first two days and then maybe take a break the third. But I always finish on time without stress because I worked hard those first two days.
@Frank Studinka i agree i think its best do just get something done as fast as you can right away instead of waiting.
I'm definitely a procrastinator i'm always waiting till last second to do something, but i'm always getting it done no matter the time i have left. I'm just always busy amd never have a lot of free time on my hands.
I procrastinate everyday. When I know I have a big project due I always put it off and do the small stuff first. Even when I am not doing any work I still don't do things that I know are due. I actually think I work better when I hold stuff off until the last minute. I would also say that it is a problem for me sometimes. Even though its my best work when I hold it off I get really frustrated while trying to do it and I get really mad at everyone else for no reason. About once every trimester everyone in my math class has a project due. They are supposed to be done by a certain date. I wait until the last day to do it because I know it can make or break my grade. I try harder when it is the end of the trimester when stuff is really due. The root problem of my procrastination is that I don't take my work serious enough until the end. I feel like I have all the time in the world to put it off until the day before things are due.
Procrastination is one of the biggest problems that I face on a daily basis. When it comes to assignment due dates, I am constantly the last one to start and finish assignments or projects. However, I truly believe that the issue of procrastination can take major strides towards improvement if schools adopt learning topics that cater more to the interests of the students. If projects are more oriented towards what students want to learn about, they are more likely to start them earlier since they would be more eager about it.
The honest truth is that in one point or another, everyone will inevitably procrastinate once in their life. Now, in the defense of us common procrastinators, there are certain aspects of procrastinators lives that lead to the putting-off of work that they ,the procrastinator, feel needs to be done. One common thing that people relate to a procrastinator is laziness. Laziness is actually a whole different personality trait because when one becomes lazy, there is little to nothing that person will do for themselves, or others. Procrastinators know what needs to be done, they just either get distracted, or they feel that they ,the procrastinator, can't do it, or don't feel up to the task. As mundane and tedious a task can be, its easy to say ,"It's so easy I can just do it later," but then later becomes days on end ,and with the other things put off, the procrastinator gets buried in this pile of stuff they've created which seems too overwhelming to them. What the very many productive people can't seem to understand is that when one thing is put off, it creates a sort of butterfly effect for the procrastinator, and despite it seeming lazy, mood and mental disease help grow this seemingly random act of laziness into an overwhelming pile up of things put off. The productive people of the world often blame a procrastinators self as to be the cause of their seemingly lazy ways, but fail to see what actually makes a procrastinator.
I procrastinate. If i have a project due in a month, I will do it on the last week. I just forget about it and it seems like I have a lot of time to do it, but before I know it, the project is almost due. It ends up wasting my time when I have to do the whole thing in only a couple of days. I don't always procrastinate, sometimes I try to get stuff done early. She provided a valid argument, that we procrastinate because we might be in a bad mood. I sometimes just don't feel like doing the work because I might have had a long day, so I do something else. Procrastinating could be productive, you will get something else done while procrastinating, and it gives you more of an incentive to work on the project when you have been putting it off.
I procrastinate everyday. When I know I have a big project due I always put it off and do the small stuff first. Even when I am not doing any work I still don't do things that I know are due. I actually think I work better when I hold stuff off until the last minute. I would also so that it is a problem for me sometimes. Even though its my best work when I hold it off I get really frustrated while trying to do it and I get really mad at everyone else for no reason. By the end of every nine weeks everybody in my history class has a current event due. They are supposed to be done by a certain date. I wait until the end of the nine weeks to do it because I know it can make or break my grade. I try harder when it is the end of the nine weeks when stuff is really due. The root problem of my procrastination is that I don't take my work serious enough until the end. I feel like I have all the time in the world to put it off until the day before things are due. A time when putting off my work made it better is every time we have math study guides due I do them the morning that they are due.
I am huge procrastinator i always push my projects in school back until the very last day that i can turn it in. Most nights when i needed to prepare for something such as a test or type of paragraph for history or english it doesn't get done until the night before. Also with cleaning up my room it takes me forever to actually get it done.
I am a procrastinator it affects a lot of things. It has gotten to the point where I do not do the things I like anymore because i am scared that something will go wrong. I believe that procrastination is not laziness because when I study and do other things that involve school it stresses me out to the point where I physically can't study. I think that all of my problems are caused by my anxiety. I procrastinate when it comes to everything I do think in some cases it is helpful because when I have a project to do I can focus better if I know that I don't have much time left to do it.
I am a very big procrastinator. I almost always push back school assignments until the very last minute. I only study for tests the night before the test. I don't really mind being a procrastinator because I maintain good grades and I work better under pressure.
I am definitely a procrastinator. I always thought it was just me being lazy or just putting it off to the side. But it is actually our emotions that make us do so. I usually find myself putting off school work or waiting until the last minute. I literally did this today. My history teacher is giving us three days to do this project and I just told myself I would just start tomorrow. I procrastinate without even realize sometimes. For me, when I procrastinate I get my best work done. Even if I am in a hurry, I usually end up doing well/acceptable with the assignment. I do better under pressure in everything especially with procrastination.
I never would've guessed that procrastination is a way people cope with certain feelings and emotions. I procrastinate all the time, and I feel like it probably isn't the best option for me to take when it comes to homework and stuff, but now that I look back at it I can remember having some of the feelings the author listed. Perhaps if I didn't procrastinate so often and try to stay in a good mood, maybe i can become more productive in all the areas in my life.
I defiantly am a procrastinator. I never thought about it being an emotional thing. I think of it more of a laziness thing because that is the easiest way to put it, and not really admit that it's because I have self-esteem problems. The biggest thing I procrastinate on is cleaning my room. I just get overwhelmed because I don't clean it till I basically can't see the floor, and I just think I'm just going to get it messy again so why clean it? My procrastinating problem really does affect my school grades and the amount of stress I have in my life. I have tried to overcome this but I don't really know how to fix it. I think that I just thought of it as a laziness problem and that is why it has been hard to overcome.
I thought this article was interesting because I learned some new things. I always thought procrastination had to deal with with poor time management or just being lazy. But really its the emotions you feel while you're doing the task that makes you put it off. I probably need to be more positive if I ever want to be more productive.
I'd say I am a procrastinator. I procrastinate in many of my classes at school, especially in classes that I don't have to make an A in. I usually find myself either putting off work for those classes or leaving them to last second if possible. I think I do this because I see these tasks as unimportant when it comes to other works, another reason could be that the subjects I tend to put off don't really resonate with me or what i want to do.
I am fine with how I procrastinate because I always end up getting it done. It allows me to work really hard on a project because I know I have to finish. I end up getting a better grade on my assignments that I procrastinate on because I work twice as hard.
Writing this at 11:54 pm on a Sunday night sums up how much of a procrastinator I am. It’s not something I do intentionally, but I always wait until the absolute last minute to work on any assignment. It creates a bunch of stress in such in small amount of time that it’s probably not worth it, but I don’t think it’s a habit that I can kick. It’s something I really should work on, but until I seriously fail an assignment due to procrastination I doubt i’ll stop.
I used to be very big on getting my assignments done ahead of time or as soon as I got home from school. However, I noticed that once I started high school that changed. Depending on the class, I push off my assignments until the last minute now. For example, over this past weekend, I had plenty of time to begin writing my research paper that has to be eight to ten pages but instead of getting ahead on it I decided to watch television and actually relax. But I know that since my project is due on Thursday that I will have it done on time because now I know I can no longer push it off like I was before.
I don't really stress about deadlines because I know I can always pull through with some type of decent work to turn in. However, if I have a test and I procrastinate on studying for it, I do stress. Only because the tests are worth a lot and it could bring my grade down a lot.
Yes, I am a procrastinator. Yes, it does cause me exorbitant levels of stress on a weekly, if not daily basis. Is it in any way beneficial to me or my work? No. Has it improved my life in any way? No. But I simply can't seem to avoid it. Anytime I have a long-term, take home assignment, it will inevitably get put off. There is no avoiding it. But what if it wasn't such a common part of my life? Ah, what if. Days filled with joy and a (partly) stress-free life. Eh, or maybe not. Maybe, doing it bit by bit over the course of the assignment would allow it to be a more stress-free assignment, or maybe knowing that I have to do it every night would add up to a similar level of stress, just diluted across a daily basis. You know what? I think my system is working out just fine. Yep, no need for any change, I think I'm doing nothing wrong, no fault or blame for late or poorly done assignments can be placed on me, it's a genetic condition, not under my control, no way. On a more serious note, this is the biggest aspect of my school experience that I would change. The repetition of the process of get assignment, put it off, do a mediocre job the night before is tedious, tiring, and stressful. I will certainly try some of the solutions she suggests, and maybe sprinkle in my own as well.
as i've gotten older, there is no doubt to me that my level of procrastination on different tasks has greatly increased. when I was younger, I would always try to stay ahead of my schoolwork and make sure that I was on track before I ever did anything for fun. however, once I started high school, that motivation seemed to fade, and I began to put a lot of things aside. I always try to develop a plan for myself, a way to finish the work with the amount of time that I had been given, in order to prevent staying up really the late the night before the assignment is due. despite all of the planning I do, it's never really worked out for me. I always seem to be up doing assignments last minute. I try to compensate for it by saying I produce my best work "under pressure", but that isn't necessarily true. I don't really think that procrastination is "productive". I think that because I have anxiety, it is difficult for me to complete tasks early because I overthink every little thing about it, and often find myself taking breaks, doing something like cleaning my room, just like how the article talks about alphabetizing your spice drawer, to relax. these breaks eventually just end up leading to just stopping altogether. consequently, I end up rushing the assignment quickly before it is due, under even higher levels of stress. even though the assignment gets done, it does not get done in the best conditions. procrastination is definitely something I need, and want to work on.
Procrastination has become a big issue in my life- whether it's school work or difficult tasks I need to do or even just making my bed. When encountered with a seemingly daunting issue, we tend to panic and so we file it away and focus on something else. Whether or not we choose to turn to mindless entertainment or maybe a smaller task that feels less intimidating than the one at hand, procrastination always comes back to bite you. However, it is not an issue as simple as not wanting to do it. In a 2013 study, it was found that procrastination "might also result from deeper feelings related to the task, such as self-doubt, low self-esteem, anxiety or insecurity." Procrastinating is not an easy habit to break, because "the thoughts we have about procrastination typically exacerbate our distress and stress, which contribute to further procrastination," said Dr. Sirois. A vicious cycle of emotion and feelings of overwhelmingness, procrastination is a very prevalent issue, especially among teenagers. In my personal experience, this problem is exemplified when forced to do a task that I do not enjoy or that I am not interested in. For example, I would be less likely to procrastinate on a science project that involves working hands-on in a lab than I would if I were being forced to write an essay about the political climate of Europe in 1780, and this is because the essay is less interested to me and so I dread it, and I put it off again and again.
Procrastination is a major problem that interferes with many lives. The false assumption that procrastination is due to bad time management is false and is actually from emotion regulation problems (Engle). According to Engle procrastination is a way of coping with difficult emotions or negative moods. Seeing procrastination is a major issue, it is pertinent that people understand the concept and learn how to deal with it. Personally, I don't procrastination because of sports. By participating in sports and other extracurricular activities, I am more aware of the time. This being said, there have been times where I have procrastinated for school assignments. Whether it was me not feeling like writing a ten-page paper, knowing the due date was far away from that given day, or anxiety, I found a way to put the assignment off. Learning that procrastination is not from the ability to manage time, will allow many people to stop procrastinating. Procaisantion has ups and downs. For example, it can hurt a students grade, but on the other hand, can force a student to focus on that particular assignment knowing the due date is soon. Downloading an app would not help in overcoming procrastination because it is about managing one's emotions, (Lieberman), and so the best way to reduce procrastination is to understand what causes it. The emotions a person feels determines their actions. The definition of what people say causes procrastination is completely wrong.
Procrastination has always been a really bad habit of mine that I've been trying to avoid for a while now. In middle school and especially now in high school, I always found myself putting assignments aside and doing them last minute. This affects my life and performance in school a great amount because I always end up stressed and not doing assignments my very best. Every time I do work last minute, I begin to regret not doing it earlier and usually end up having some kind of mental breakdown. For the most part I always have tons of work to do so procrastinating is something I really shouldn't be doing. I think that part of the reason I procrastinate is because I put the thought in my head that if I have so much time to complete an assignment, then I don't have to start it now and I could start it later. Later then comes and I'm stuck doing work until 2 in the morning. It is the reason why I get absolutely no sleep on a daily basis. Another reason as to why I procrastinate is because I know that a certain assignment is just going to stress me out so I'd rather avoid it for the moment. Dr. Fuschia Sirois said “People engage in this irrational cycle of chronic procrastination because of an inability to manage negative moods around a task.” Several teens would rather not complete their work because they know it will give them some anxiety and stress. I think that in order for me to stop procrastinating, I need to go to a quiet area and just focus on myself and my work.
Over the years, I think I have gotten progressively more and more of a procrastinator. I vividly remember in middle school, how productive I would be during school and especially after school. When I had projects or papers due, I finished them as soon as possible. In high school, procrastinating is something I do way more frequently. Although, I do not believe that it always is an issue. I don't think it is an issue because I always find a way to actually complete the work I'm given. It also depends on what the actual task I need to complete. If it's late at night and I'm tired, I know for a fact that I am not going to want to do it. On the other hand, if I have a paper due on a topic that I find interesting or compelling, I will have a drive to actually complete it. Doing my research paper for my junior research class, I did not procrastinate. This is because I got to chose my topic and I actually enjoyed completing the research. I think that a lot of teens procrastinate to avoid over stressing and the anxieties that come with it. “Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem,” said Dr. Tim Pychyl. Some ways of reducing procrastination in my own life is by turning off notifications on my phone, turning my phone off completely, or sitting down doing homework at a library or cafe. Being in a focused environment forces me to be productive and want to finish my work quickly.
Although I typically submit the majority of my school assignments on time, I often find myself waiting until the last minute to complete the work, so I do consider myself a significant procrastinator. No matter the difficulty or length of the assignment, I often see the due date and decide “Oh, I’ll just do it whenever I feel like it,” which frequently leads to me doing the task the night before the due date. However, putting off my work so excessively can lead to me becoming increasingly stressed and anxious about the work as the due date looms. In the cases where the task is relatively simple, sometimes I just put the work off and merely forget about the assignments existence. Mostly I feel that my procrastination stems from being a perfectionist and fearing failure. Therapist Dr. Pamela Wiegartz has found that the “thought of putting in effort but still failing” and “believing that things should be done perfectly” are the most popular causes of avoiding work and procrastination in her clients. I relate to both of these points as they both cause anxious thoughts which can lead to me attempting to avoid the work until I am forced to do the task in order to turn the assignment in on time. While my procrastination does ultimately brings me stress and anxiety, the anxiety caused by the assignments themselves is what leads to my procrastination.
Regardless of the repercussions I face time and time again procrastinating, I continue to put myself through the misery of cramming assignments or putting off everyday tasks. I do not believe my procrastinating personality stems from "an emotion regulation problem", but simply being too lazy to escape my safe place: my bed. When I enter my house after a long day at school, I rush directly to my bedroom for my bed before my mother can pound me with responsibilities. On nights that I have homework -which has become every night recently- I lay in my bed, watching Netflix or Youtube trying to ignore the overwhelming responsibility that has been placed on my shoulders, knowing that I will only stress myself out waiting until the last minute to complete my work. Not only am I stressed throughout the night, but my stress continues when I awaken for another monotonous school day tired and feeling unprepared. This habit cycles through my daily life, causing me unnecessary stress that has the possibility to be solved if I obtained a motivation to complete my assignments as soon as I think about it.
Procrastination has perpetually been part of my life; however, entering high school, I feel the weight of procrastination weighing me down. My grades, self-worth, and pride suffer because of procrastination, and I entertain myself in useless things to shield myself from those negative feelings. Most of the time, I indulge in things that mean very little to me to distract myself from impending due dates, and moments of solitude. Procrastinating on homework leads to nights of struggling to complete my work( which I should finish sooner), and anxiety reaching new levels. Also, trying to finish my homework and cramming for the next day, I have limited time to connect with myself. I subconsciously ignore how I'm thinking so I won't feel the harmful thoughts and emotions consuming my mind. A way to cope with procrastination is recognizing that due dates are closer than I would prefer and understand the emotional reason I dawdle my work. People procrastinate for a multitude of reasons: anxiety, fear of failing, idealization, and apathy, likewise there are many solutions. Personally, journaling or any creative output, helps with figuring out how I'm feeling and why I'm procrastinating.
I am not a procrastinator I am forgetful though, I have a lot of things to do in one day so i forget often what needs to be done. You might call that procrastination because i will usually remember right before it needs to be turned in or after it's to late. Lots of people procrastinate i feel like it's not a big problem unless its getting in the way of your school or work.
Procrastination is a BIG problem in my life. More of it is because i’m actually just lazy, like laying on my bed after track practice, claiming i’m tired and then spend the rest of my time on my phone until it’s time to go to bed. Though, I do have those moments where i’m like “yes, i can do this homework and be done with it” and then i get home and i just lose all my motivation and just sit on my bed or look productive by washing dishes, doing chores, reading, watching a “educated movie or show”. Although, lately since academics play a big part in playing sports, i’ve tried to lessen my procrastination to a minimum by turning my phone off, my notifications off, and actually writing in my agenda.
Although I would like to consider myself a proactive student when it comes to getting assignments done, I often find myself finishing school work in the nick of time. Original stress emerging from a looming due date is only heightened when I have waited to complete it the night before. Procrastination is often viewed as a punishable time management problem, but--digging deeper-- it roots from moods and emotions. Personally, procrastination stems from the satisfaction of seizing the day; I can always seem to find another activity that will bring fulfillment: ulike homework. However, when my mood is happier, I find my mind willing to work diligently. Professor Dr Fuschia Sirous discusses the “negative mood” that can surround an unwanted task. Avoiding completion, can even result in lowered self confidence. In the days or hours spend pondering the importance of the assignment, we begin to question are own thoughts and gradually become insecure. After years and years of procrastination in my life, I still find myself struggling to get in the mood to be productive in my studies. Tonight, while I stay up finishing this response, I will blame my procrastination on the spilt coffee on my shirt.
@Libby Majors
Just like Libby, I like to think of myself as a good student with a terrible procrastination problem. When assigned work I often find myself doing nothing until the last minute. These unfortunate occurrences, like Libby's experience's, stems from my choice to spend more time on a different activity that is more rewarding for me. As Professor Fuchsia Sirois discussed, procrastination is the aversion of a task in an effort to manage negative emotions associated with the task. So when it comes to school work -- tasks that I usually associate with feelings of monotony and frustration -- the allure of video games and the internet -- things I associate with happiness and excitement -- seem irresistible. To me, this attitude many students share towards work reveals something fundamentally flawed about schools in America. In America, the most important things for students are their grades and test scores, usually more so than the pursuit of learning itself. As a result of this prioritization, rote learning and arduous worksheets have come to dominate classrooms along while also limiting a student's ability to explore a subject -- the essence of learning -- which can actually be exciting or fascinating for students. No wonder kids are always putting off work Procrastination in schools should be addressed by making work more interesting and fulfilling to students because, as Libby discussed, procrastination can lead to self0doubt and insecurity in the youth of America.
I am a procrastinator, most people are. Lots of people procrastinate but it ends up being self destructive. When we put things off we lose our train of thought and our ideas won’t be as good as they would have been the first time around. We also don't put as much effort and thought into to because everyone has less time to it. It is because we have so many things to distract us. With our lives being so connected, we can instantly find anything we could ever imagine with a click of a button. So to become better at not procrastinating, we have to disconnect ourselves, and focus on what we need to get done.
Procrastination for me is a vicious cycle. I often find myself putting off tasks that I just don't know how to start- either I don't understand the instructions, or it's just plain boring. But most of the time, it's because, as a perfectionist, I need everything done just right, and if the project I'm tackling seems out of my league, I'm scared to even start it. The idea of struggling with something, and producing a mediocre result, paralyzes me. So I just ignore it, and put it off, and put it off some more. And as the deadline approaches, I know I have less and less time, and my end result is getting worse and worse with every minute I waste, and the anxiety grows until I've spent far more energy ignoring the problem than I have trying to just do the work.
Obviously a rushed job isn't going to be up to my standards either, but at that point it's all I can do. I completely agree with Ms. Lieberman's conclusion that procrastination is a result of poor mood management. I can't cope with the fear of failure, or a bad result, so I just run away from the idea completely. But I'm always going to have to face it eventually, so I have to learn at some point that it's the sooner the better.
I totally agree with Mrs.Lieberman and her views on procrastination. Procrastination is something every high school student knows. I find myself either feeling like i can push it to the last minute or just not having the desire/motivation for it. I often catch myself procrastinating on almost everything, i am currently writing my required new york times comments at 12 in the morning because i put them off all day. i thought ; eh i got time for it later or i just don't feel like doing it now. I would consider my procrastination almost like a habit, i wouldn't know what do do if i didn't stay up all night doing work.
Procrastination is something that every student is familiar with because we have all - most of us - stayed up nights to finish our essays for AP Lang or worked hours on that one math problems for Calculus. Some consider procrastination their best strategy because they work at their best under pressure, others consider it their worst mistakes because they get overwhelmed by the work pressure. But, either way, the roots of procrastination are in the Due Dates. Due Dates are the caused of procrastination because as we come close to the due dates we start to panic more and more until we decide to work on that assignment. And as procrastination becomes more and more of our habit we start to rely on it more often. But what if we do not have due dates to make us get our work done, then what will happen? As we began to enter real life (after graduation), we start to face this problem a whole lot because now due dates are gone and we are stuck alone with no panic button to help us get our work done. Then the effects of procrastination magnify and things like getting a job, exercising, and seeing your family get pushed around to do fun things. And it is this long term procrastination that becomes the source of a huge amount of long term unhappiness and regrets.
Ms. Lieberman says that procrastination isn't about being lazy or bad time management and I 100% agree. I've never thought about it before but I always procrastinate on important things that seem hard or I don't know If I can do, making it purely about emotion.
For example, recently I've had a very good procrastination method. When I have an essay to write or a big test to study for; instead of studying or writing, I do my physical therapy exercises that are physically so much more painful than studying or writing. But, I know I can do them and I can do them the right way. Which I'm not always certain within schoolwork.
Another example would be when I'm going to play a very important hockey game. Being a procrastinator, you'd think I'd try to put it off and try not to think about it. But when I have an important hockey game, all I can do is think about it and I can't wait to begin playing. That's because I love doing it.
My own procrastination roots off of how long, boring, difficult a task his. If I know I'm going to hate doing it, I put it off. If I like doing something or I'm interested in it, I tend not to put it off as much.
I agree with Ms. Lieberman’s points. I, personally, have a big procrastination problem. Every time I procrastinate, I feel this awful feeling that nags at me constantly. But when I think about doing my work, I somehow feel even worse, and decide to put it off as long as I possibly can. Sometimes I just decide not to do it. Even then, I still feel awful.
I think the root of my problem comes from being afraid of starting projects. If it looks like it will be a lot of work, I’m afraid to even start working on it. Which is strange to me, because once I start working on something, I can hardly stop until it’s finished. I actually love working on big projects, I just hate to start working on them.
I’m don't think I'm a procrastinator but i'm more of a lazy person. As the article said, procrastination happens not because you’re lazy, but it’s because you’re not in the mood of doing it. Well, sometimes I wouldn't even do the simplest thing as making a to-do list so I wouldn't forget to do something or miss something important. Procrastination can be a harm sometimes but not as much as laziness does to me.
Procrastination can be easily fixed, for example reducing your stress level or controlling your mood. However laziness can never be cured (trust me, I’ve tried to make some life changes before but I just ended up failing). Even when I’m in a good mood or even if the stuff that I’m about to do is super simple I still push things back and do it at the last minute or end up not doing it.
Procrastination is one of my worst habits. I can't tell you how many times I've done a huge project the night before, studied the night before, or even not done it at all. Do I wish I could be on task all the time? Yes, It would make life a lot easier, and less stressful. “Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem,” said Dr. Tim Pychyl, professor of psychology and member of the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University in Ottawa.
In a 2013 study, Dr. Pychyl and Dr. Sirois found that procrast. I had no clue that waiting to finish my homework was because my mood.
Procrastination is something most about everyone struggles with. Sometimes we just simply don't want to do something so we put it off till last minute, other times we simply have no motivation to do the task. I personally struggle with procrastination big time. Especially when it comes to homework. Its not that I don't want to do the assignment, I just have no motivation to. I'll wait till the night before something is due and stay up all night doing it. It ruins my sleep schedule and puts so much stress on me. Id rather do a little each day up until the assignment is due so I can avoid panicking and rushing at the last minute.
Even though I always get my work done, I don't usually start the work until a day or two before the due date. It's just what I've done my entire life. I realize that it isn't a very healthy strategy for me, but it works. I believe it works because I usually do my best work when i'm under pressure. I'm able to finish that project.
Like the article says, procrastination is about putting away the things we need to do that put us in a negative mood, until it gets to the point where we can't shove it away anymore. This stretches past schoolwork and chores. People tend to shove down and push away their problems until it gets to the point where it's become a problem. A simple solution to both of these is to begin to deal with it a little each day. Whether it's a life problem or a math problem, work on it each and every single day, little by little.
I can't even think of one time where I didn't procrastinate before getting my work done. It's just a natural part of my routine for work, because I usually end up getting everything finished. Maybe I procrastinate because I work best under pressure. Or maybe I procrastinate so I can allow myself more free time. Either way, it's hardly ever messed me up in the past and has just come to fit into the way my mind works. I admit, it has caused me my fair share of stress in the past, but after the project or assignment is finished and turned in, I feel the same way I would have felt if I had started it the second it had been assigned. If I let it go on for too long, then procrastination does become a pretty dangerous thing. Luckily, I've become very familiar with the concept over the years and I know exactly when I have to begin to shift my focus onto the task that's due.
Procrastination is a form of self-harm and ultimately becomes an “irrational cycle”, but we do it anyway because we don’t want to get involved with that boring essay or an anxiety-inducing project. We know it will be much worse, and involve more self-doubt or anxiety later, but we do whatever we can, to avoid the threat now. I agree that procrastination is not about being lazy, because most of the time I am doing something productive, in order to put off something I find to be more stressful.
One strategy I would use, maybe not to eliminate procrastination overall, but to get assignments done quickly, as soon as I have the chance, is by working with other people. Not so much of friends that will distract you but people who you can compete with to get things done. If you are sort of racing to finish an assignment before someone, then the emotional problems involved with a boring or anxiety-inducing task seem to disappear.
Over the course of my school years, I think it’s fair to say I’m not only a procrastinator, but also quite adept at it. I am both wait to do a project and do it early. I usually start it, maybe work half an hour, then I realize, “it’s early, and how much more could there really be? I’ll put it off till tomorrow.” After day one, I wait until probably two or three nights before the due date to actually pick it back up.
Size, an important factor when procrastinating. If it’s a big project that weighs heavily on my grade, I’ll do it before the night of. Now, if we’re talking a worksheet that was homework? Pfffft, that is childsplay. The best time to do a worksheet, is while your teacher is collecting it up. I like to consider it an extreme sport.
Importance, this next element is probably the main motivator, or “unmotivator.” It’s amazing how during the middle of my math homework, I realize how dusty my desk is, and now I can’t just leave all that dust. I felt personally attacked when the article said, “If you’ve ever put off an important task to, say, alphabetize your spice drawer, you know it wouldn’t be fair to describe yourself as lazy.”
My whole mindset changes whenever something critical is due. “Screw the spices, I got to make this perfect!” When I’m under more pressure, and I realize I’ve run out of days to wait, suddenly my attention is reigned in.
I am a big time procrastinator. In fact, I have an essay due tomorrow in English that is really rough around the edges, but I don't use my valuable class time to work on it. Instead, I find other, more "interesting" things to do. Even when I have time to do homework at home, I clean my room, or do other homework. My mom always lectures me about procrastinating, but I still do it anyway. It frustrates me when my homework is hard and I saved it until the last minute, but I just let my "Future Tatiana" worry about it instead of my "Present Tatiana."
I proscrastinate quite often thinking Im helping myself and in result I end up feeling worse. The lack of motivation sucks and i still need to work on it.
I think that the author's advice is practical.I think that the technique that I would use is "make your temptations more inconvenient. because I hate it when something inconvenient and try to stay away from it as much as possible. I've tired forbidding myself from doing things until I've finished what I'm working on. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't
I am definitely a procrastinator with things like lots of homework, or chores, or practicing my instruments. Typically I procrastinate because these things are boring or I just want to watch tv. If I know that I absolutely have to get this one thing done then I set like 20 alarms to make sure I'm getting done. I try to annoy myself into getting done. Once I'm done with the one thing it feels good but I know that I have something else to do, so I try and procrastinate that as well. I think it's better to just get things done but I never take my own advice and just get things done.
I'm definitely a procrastinator. It doesn't affect my performance in school because I wait until the last possible second to get my work done well. Even though it doesn't affect my grades, procrastination stresses me out, and I keep getting sucked into procrastinating, so I end up always being stressed. I agree with the argument that procrastination is caused by negative emotions because I feel most compelled to procrastinate when I come home from school or practice in a bad mood. If I come home in a good mood, I feel super productive and I go straight to my homework to get it out of the way. I'm trying to combat procrastination by putting my mental health first and trying to go into every day with a positive mindset.
Procrastination is, for me, a big, big, BIG problem. As we speak I am doing this exact assignment, comment on a NYT article, last minute. I saw this article earlier this week, said I was gonna do it, didn't, and proceeded to said: Nah, I'll do it later. I just didn't feel like doing it then.
In school, I lead myself in the same downward spiral over and over again and never seem to learn my lesson. I can only imagine the Utopia I would be living in if I didn't procrastinate. No more late nights or waking up at 5 in the morning to finish an assignment. I would always be prepared and have perfect grades. It would be absolutely wonderful if I didn't procrastinate, but I don't think it's a possibility for me to ever stop.
I believe I big reason for my procrastination is that I want satisfaction immediately. I don't want to have to do something to be "rewarded". I would rather just reward myself then and now. As Dr. Judson Brewer said, “Our brains are always looking for relative rewards,". Our brains have formed a habit of doing things at give us more immediate satisfaction rather than the task itself. I, in particular, have fallen victim to this many times moreover.
Procrastination is a big problem in my life. This year I haven't done a piece of homework at home after school. I always do my homework in the morning on the light rail to school and at school before my classes. I've tried focusing on just homework but I either get distracted or need to be active and moving.
Procrastination is that cousin of the family nobody really talks to and is not particularly liked nor disliked, just there, and I am that cousin. Procrastination is just an existential feel to my every day life, though it shouldn't be, is slightly useful in moderation as it helps to actually be a red flag in pushing to get stuff done on time.
I am a pretty big procrastinator, it kind of affects my performance because I always rush the thing that I'm supposed to do and it doesn't have a really nice outcome as I wished it would be. The source of my procrastination is probably my phone, laziness, and other activities that I could do.
I procrastinate a lot without knowing it. I know I should take the advice of this author, but I don't agree with their strategies. I feel that those strategies are too extreme in my opinion.
I am a procrastinator and it does affect my performance in school. I always procrastinate my homework which causes me to have to stay up late to get it all done. I procrastinate by taking a nap, watching YouTube, and making food. I think I procrastinate because homework frustrates me and it gives me anxiety.
Procrastinating is a normal thing in high school. Many students procrastinate. I don't know what causes procrastination since I'm not a procrastinator rarely I will be. I try to finish my work way before it's due.
No matter what someone says, everyone procrastinates. The level of procrastination varies between people but everyone does it from time to time. The biggest misunderstanding I see with procrastination is how people think it is only for school work, but it can be about everything.
For example with me personally I am not horrible with my procrastination of school work. I do it from time to time but I try to do it very quickly so it doesn't pile on. But with other things I can be absolutely horrible. I am the absolute worst and doing chores that I need to do, I will push them back until the very last second since I am never in the mood to do them.
In the article, a professor named Dr. Fuschia Sirois talks about how procrastination is not because of bad time management, but because of bad moods. That makes complete sense to me, when I am procrastination with doing chores I can always easily find the time to do it, but I think about doing the chores and it puts me in a bad mood so I push them off.
Dr. Tim Pychyl also says that, "Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem,”.
In order to stop pushing things off I need to do I need to find a positive scenario out of what I need to do. If my mood being bad is the problem I need to be happier to get my stuff done. That's why most people who are happy are more successful in life, they have less of an issue doing unwanted things that have to be done.
I am a procrastinator. I know when I’m putting an assignment off and yet I still avoid it. I always find myself waiting until the last possible moment to start an assignment, and I pay the price. Long nights, a grumpy attitude, sometimes a not so good grade are just some of the consequences of waiting. I found it interesting when Dr. Fuschia Sirois said that “People engage in this irrational cycle of chronic procrastination because of an inability to manage negative moods around a task.” I never noticed until today that it is true.
Whenever I am in good or positive attitude at school, as well at home, I tend to get my work done quicker. In a bad mood, I look for other things to do and working is not one of them. When the due date is inching its way around the corner, I force myself to get it done and the consequences come.
Procrastination plagues my life almost everyday with school. It often causes me more stress than I already was under before the procrastination. It's almost a downward spiral of stress piled upon stress until I somehow overcome it and finally do the task.
However I feel more inclined to do homework earlier when I am in a happier mood. This correlates with the article as Charlotte Lieberman states "Procrastination is about emotions, not productivity." I agree with this as I notice how productive I am when I am in a certain mood.
And whenever I am procrastinating, I usually get on my phone to get on social media or watch videos as those entertain me. Every time, I enjoy myself more than doing the work. “Our brains are always looking for relative rewards," said Dr. Judson Brewer. He continues to explain how our brains form habits by doing things that give us more of a reward or satisfaction than completing the task. This accurately explains why I always get on my phone while I'm procrastinating.
However one benefit I find of procrastinating is developing a great idea that I will base a project or writing off of. Even if I am not recording my thoughts on paper or actually doing the work, I am developing a well thought out idea that I would not have had unless I procrastinated. So sometimes it is sort of useful.
I do procrastinate, and honestly sometimes it’s hard not to. I really try sometimes to not procrastinate and sometimes it works really well and other times it doesn’t. I’ve had my share of staying up all night to finish a project that was assigned several weeks ago. Usually I just think of it as prioritizing something that’s due the next day over something that’s due in a month. There have been projects where I did not procrastinate at all and I finished the project a few days before it was due, and that was a lot nicer than doing it the night before. In the article it says, “When we procrastinate, we’re not only aware that we’re avoiding the task in question, but also that doing so is probably a bad idea. And yet, we do it anyway.” I somewhat agree with this because I do know procrastinating is a bad idea but I tend to do it anyway, and sometimes I don’t realize I’m doing it. Although, sometimes I think about priorities and I realize that procrastinating is a bad idea, which makes me not procrastinate. It really depends on the assignment, and if it’s something I really don’t want to do or something that seems really easy, I am more likely to procrastinate.
Being a procrastination "addict" I found it extremely intriguing that the reasons surrounding it are emotion based rather than just general laziness. Because of how often I am affected by procrastination in my daily life it's honestly kind of hard to believe that those actions aren't related to self-control. There have been many times that I look for methods to increase my productivity. I also often just pass it off as being too attached to my phone or technology, which is still true, but thinking about it there often is a deeper emotional thought process acting out.
The real dangers of procrastination are the effects it has on your self-confidence. I often find myself in a loop where I feel unsure about the task I'm working on, so I go on my phone to "reset" which instead just makes me feel worse for procrastinating.
"the accompanying negative feelings that await us on the other side — are somebody else’s problem." This was a line I found quite interesting. It is true that we often pass off our problems to our future self, inherently letting it be their problem. Of course, this just ends up backfiring in the long run, but it's hard to feel sympathy for "just a stranger."
Procrastination is becoming more frequent in today's high schools than ever before. Students begin to form negative thoughts toward assignments they have yet to even been handed. I have recognized the problem of procrastination in my life, especially as a junior in high school. As the years have surpassed, I have been working to keep an order in my busy homework packed schedule. I have created a system in my planner, and write sticky notes to place on the back of my phone. I have come to realize that setting the reminders on your phone are not as beneficial as teachers or parents tend to believe. When it pops up, I am drawn to instantly swipe up so it will go away leaving me with never having to think about it again. With my planner, I can tangibly look at future assignments and I don't have to stress as much about when I am going to complete them. However, if the class slips by and I forget to write in my planner, I can write on a post-it note ranking my most important/time- sensitive assignments to the once that will require less time. These two main skills have helped me to quit procrastinating, and have a positive outlook on completing future assignments.
Yes, I'd say I am a procrastinator in many of my classes especially in classes that I don't require to pass. I usually find myself either putting off work for those classes or leaving them to last second if possible. I believe I tend to do.this because I see these tasks as unimportant when it comes to other works, another reason for my ignorance could be that the subjects I tend to put off don't really resonate with me or the profession I'd like the go into.
I am probably the biggest procrastinator I know. The things I procrastinate on however, has to do with my school work. I could be assigned a project three weeks before it is due, and will most likely not even look at the directions until the night before the due date. I look at it as a cause and effect. Procrastination is the cause, and stress is the effect. It is in my power to do something about it, I am just never willing to make a change to better myself.
The article states, " The particular nature of our aversion depends on the given task or situation. It may be due to something inherently unpleasant about the task itself - having to clean a dirty bathroom or organizing a long, boring spreadsheet for your boss. But it might also result from deeper feelings related to the task, such as self doubt, low self esteem, anxiety or insecurity." I, in some ways, disagree with this statement. I believe that most people's procrastination, especially mine, is from pure laziness. Rarely do I have deep feelings toward assignments, I just don't want to do them.
Procrastination is a habit of mine that I need to work on changing. It is not healthy and prohibits me from having a feeling of preparation and readiness because I am always stressed. If I do my assigned work ahead of time, it will all work out better for me in the long run.
Procrastination: helpful short term, harmful long term.
Short term, procrastination can be enriching, as long as it isn’t to the extreme. For me, writing especially, projects that involve original thought are often best left for later. Obviously, “later” still needs to leave enough time to produce a quality product, but the time before that point, if used purposefully, provides room for creativity. Jumping on work just after it is assigned cuts off opportunities that could’ve lead to a light-bulb moment. Ideas can marinate and develop. Sometimes the natural flow of work can lead to quality work.
But long term, procrastination is problematic. Everyone, to at least some degree, has dealt with the unfortunate habit, whether it be in school, hobbies, relationships, or something you’ve just been meaning to get around to. Chronically, the habit can have grave effects on a lifestyle. For example, what happens when there isn’t a deadline? In situations such as job/internship searches and extracurricular projects (things that are emotionally and intellectually hard), the motivation needs to be completely intrinsic. Procrastination becomes unhealthy: projects can be put off again and again, preventing real progress.
I find myself procrastination almost every day thinking to myself I can do it later or even tomorrow, but then the next day I find myself repeating the same message. In the end it comes down to the deadline or the night before, and the I am left no choice but to do the work. On many occasions I have had projects that were left unfinished until the day before they were due.
When I hear that procrastination is mental, and you cannot help it I would like to feel like that is true because I do try so often to change that bad habit, but I never can but I do also disagree with this article in saying that for me I find it is more about if I am in the mindset to do something boring, and believe it or not I almost never am. With this said I think that procrastination is more just about taking initiative and doing what you know has to get done so you have less stress later, and you can split up the work a little.
Procrastination is a huge problem because it is so easy to put things off, and with the amount of work already being done in school no one wants to go home, and do more work. I think that people just have to be open to doing a little work per day, so in the end they can finish it.
I have a weird relationship with procrastination, I used to do it to just about every homework assignment and every project but now I just like to get things out of the way. I like doing my assignments earlier so that way when its due in two hours I won’t be nervous and rushing to get it done. Don’t get me wrong I do procrastinate sometimes but I have gotten better with stopping myself and doing it because it’s necessary. The one thing I find weird about this article is when it says “we procrastinate because of bad moods” and then it answers “yes”, I just have never really seen any relation with my mood and me procrastinating so i’m not fully sure if I support that claim.
MOST of the time I am not a procrastinator. Lately this has changed. I have been very tired lately and haven't been able to get my sleep schedule back on track. So when I come home instead of starting my homework I'll tend to sleep. Then I wake up and it's around eight or nine o'clock, at this point I am in no mood to work on homework. Therefore I will put it off.
Growing up I was never a procrastinator I liked to plan out my projects and say what needs to get done when. Being in my second year of high school I've noticed this has become difficult. The stress of so much work tends to make me put off doing my everyday homework to the morning when I am well rested. When I have to do big projects I do them during lunch at school or after school if I don't go to sleep right when I get home.
Procrastination is a habit that I can not seem to break. It follows me on every school assignment I ever do. It is the little homework assignments that are the worst for me. I get my mind on something that I think is more important and then completely forget about the other assignments I have to do. I think one way that can help me break this habit is to start writing things down. Everything from big projects due in a month, to homework due the next day. Procrastination is like having a cold. It is not too big a deal at first, but if you let it sit and don't do anything about it, it can get really bad. The first time you have an essay assigned, and you wait to the last night to do it and do well on it, you get in the habit of doing it on every assignment, and it will eventually bite you.
I am not a procrastinator , I could get an assignment and its due date, perfectly divvy the work up day by day, get a perfect amount of sleep each night, and turn in the perfect assignment without overworking myself.
Said no one ever.
Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world, I am not a perfect student, and I most definitely am a procrastinator. However, the main question is not about whether I am or am not a procrastinator, but why I am a procrastinator. And the answer simply is... because it works.
I am a piece of coal that under pressure comes out as a shining diamond. However dramatic and scientifically inaccurate that was, it is true; I have honestly turned in some of my best work minutes before it has been due and gotten perfect scores on a lot of those assignments.
It actually can be harder for me sometimes to try to work on an assignment piece by piece each day that can result in losing my train of thought instead of knocking it out of the park in one sitting.
To those anti-procrastinators, I say, you do you! No one works the same way and some people crack under pressure but others thrive. Procrastination brings out the best or the worst in us and I try not to be too hard on myself and be my own type of "cool mom" instead of a strict one. Even though I know I should, sometimes I just don't want to! Everyone has those days and it is more than okay to cut yourself some slack sometimes and make up for it later.
As a high school student I try my best to not procrastinate, but I always seem to eventually fall victim to it once again. When I do procrastinate, it usually causes an unfortunate strain of events, including a stress induced breakdown that ultimately causes me to finish my work. It becomes a harder habit to break the more and more it is practiced.
A good way I have recently overcome my procrastination is by organizing my schedule of homework and projects throughout the week so I am never handling a bunch of assignments all at the same time.
Unlike most students, I’m not a procrastinator. I tend to start planning out how I will study for a test a couple of days before we have it. My schedule is busier than most students. On a typical school day after school I go to workout, then to practice right after. I arrive home from practice at the time most people go to bed, so I don’t have a choice but to plan ahead. I usually make flashcards for an upcoming test a couple of days before, where I can study them as soon as I get home from practice a little each night. This is very beneficial because if I did not do this, I would be studying all night, and I would be too exhausted the next day to be successful on the test.
I agree and disagree with Mrs. Liaberman’s opinion that procrastination is due to an individual’s mood. When I procrastinate it’s usually because I’m mentally exhausted, and I would much rather watch Netflix than study. I think this is both a mood and being lazy. I think negative moods can result from a time management problem and laziness. All students know the consequences of procrastination, so they should know to avoid it in the future by planning ahead and using their time wisely. I think whatever your mood may be, having a time management skill can greatly influence your mood towards doing tasks.
Procrastination can sometimes be a positive thing because it can give you a mental break after a long day, and that's much needed.
I am a procrastinator in short. I often put off projects and papers to the last minute in school. I really only procrastinate when it comes to things that I really don’t want to do, no matter how simple. For example I waited until six days before I turned sixteen to get my learner's permit when I could have gotten it as soon as I turned fifteen. It's only simple things that I don't think about or feel like doing and even little things that I push off tend to come back and bite me yet I still procrastinate. It’s kind of an issue or me and my friends because they do it too and it’s something I wish I would change because it really does affect me.
High schoolers would be lying if they said they weren't procrastinators. Every high schooler is. It's a fact. When a student gets back from their eight hour school day, the last thing on their mind is, "oh lets do some more!"
Some teacher forget that we have classes other than theirs and that our other classes also assign work. Teachers will say the homework will only take an hour, but times that by four and that's four hours of homework each night. Teachers don't take into consideration that we have after school jobs and play sports and have a social life. Sometimes work inevitably get procrastinated.
Yes. I procrastinate almost every assignment. I put it off until the last possible minute and then struggle to get it done in time. In eighth grade I had a math project, we had to pick an object and use a formula to scale it up or down and then make a to-scale version of it. I procrastinated so much I didn’t even pick an object until the day it was due. And I picked the easiest possible object, my binder. My teacher called us up one by one to turn in our projects. I told her I left mine at home because one piece kept falling off of it when in reality I never made it. That night I went home, did the math, and made a tiny binder out of an index card. It took about 15 minutes. I turned it in the next day and didn’t even get points taken off for being late. I procrastinate all the time still. It doesn’t always work out like it did in eighth grade but I do it anyway, and I have no clue why. I know I’m going to get a 0 and yet I still don’t do the work.
Yes, I am a procrastinator. It is definitely a problem for me. I’ve actually been trying to stop procrastinating by going into classes during my lunch at school to make classes easier for me. Especially the classes that give me a lot of work in them. It actually surprised me when Dr. Pychyl said that it is a emotional problem and not a time management problem because it sounds like you can’t manage time. Procrastinating doesn’t actually negatively affect me in school I don’t think, it just puts more stress on me when the time that the paper is due comes. Since I have baseball practice and games after school everyday of the week, I pretty much have to procrastinate because I get home at eight o’clock and all I want to do is eat and sleep. Practice makes me push my school as far back as I can until it is due the next day. I pushed an eighty question study guide to the night before it was due and I ended up sending about four hours on it. That was not fun and that’s why I’m trying to change.
I am, notoriously, a chronic procrastinator. From homework, to shopping, to going out with friends, I somehow manage to find some way to put off the task until the last minute. Like right now, for example. I have, maybe, ten things I have to do, or want to do, but can't be bothered to start them. So, instead, I am writing this response to an article about procrastination to procrastinate facing my procrastination. Fantastic.
I don't particularly argue with the author's argument, though. Linking procrastination with negative moods is a stretch, and it implies the "just be happier" solution. I, personally, have put off tasks several times over because I was feeling excited or happy, and I didn't want to sour my mood. Procrastination may be related with negative moods, but it doesn't have to be caused by them. Instead, I still view it as a convenience fallacy. If the task doesn't seem to be worth the reward at that point, then you'll try to put it off for as long as possible. It's that simple. None of these "state of mind" proposals. Just the brain searching for something easy or worthwhile.
I am one of the biggest procrastinators. In fact I’m doing this comment the day it’s due. I try to get my work done in enough time, but I always wait because I don’t want to have to be stressed. But then I end up stressed because I wait too long and I don’t leave myself enough time to get things done.
In the passage it says, “the Latin verb procrastinare — to put off until tomorrow. But it’s more than just voluntarily delaying”. I can relate to this because i don’t just delay it for no reason, I delay my work for many other reasons. I sometimes find myself about to do some work, but then I end up seeing something online and get stuck in a transects or watching Netflix or online shopping.
I know that what I’m doing is wrong and that I should just do my work, but it’s hard to actually focus on that point when I’m having an easy time doing nothing stressful. Like Dr. Fuschia Sirois said, “It doesn’t make sense to do something you know is going to have negative consequences.”
Many people procrastinate but some do it more than others. For example, I know people who will do their homework the night that the assignment is given out even though it is not due until next week. Then there is the person who stresses about the assignment the day it is due and rushes to get it done. That person is me. I am doing this assignment the day of even though it was assigned several days ago which shows that I am clearly a procrastinator. The article explains that procrastinating is mainly because of bad moods. The author says that someone who procrastinates is not necessarily someone who is lazy or has a time management problem. I see where Lieberman is coming from because sometimes I am in a bad mood but most of the time I just keep putting off what I have to do simply because I get lazy. I do procrastinate a lot but I really don’t believe that it is because of anxiety or low self esteem. Everybody is different though. Some may stress that they don’t think their work will get a good grade which could be a reason as to why they are procrastinating. But for me personally, my self esteem is never really low so when I procrastinate, it is because I rather be doing something else.
Being honest, yes. I am a huge procrastinator. But recently I've been forcing myself to study, and working on things days before its due to turn in. Its challenging, but overall Its starting to affect my grades positively. I personally do not procrastinate because im in a bad mood, but really its just because im lazy. Its hard to admit but its the truth.
Sometimes, putting things off until the next day is needed though. Stress is overwhelming, and taking the day off to rest our minds shouldn't be frowned upon.
My work ethic may look to some organized, smart, and well-rounded with my planner marked with due dates, several notifications set on my phone; reminding me to do my work; and creating flash cards for a new set of notes. In reality, I procrastinate... a lot. My brain tells me, “it’s only one small thing, you’ll get it over with,” but my heart says, “this is so pointless and stupid, don’t burden yourself with this junk.” I feel satisfied with the time that I spent, but the task and its outcome will always come back to haunt me.
I find myself always falling back into this cycle because I always get the same result, whether I spend a lot or a little time on the task. I remember pulling an all-nighter for an AP World History test; I was one point off of an A. The next test I spent a whole week studying for, just to get an A; my test was one point lower than my last one. Why would you spend all my time on it if you only get the same outcome? You wouldn’t.
The only way I can avoid procrastination is if the task is something I’m excited about. Running, that requires lots of training to be prepared. I love competition, and I love to win. I will do anything to succeed and get what I want, hence why I train. If you’re truly passionate about something, you aren’t going to wing it; you’re going to give your soul out to it. If only it was the same way for the things you hate...
Procrastination is a weird concept in my life. The article talks about cleaning and house tidying, I usually see these workloads through school. Homework is such a huge part of my life outside of high school campus. I will procrastinate but I feel like I am the only one to be the judge of what I do. For example, my dad especially would disagree with this statement that it is emotional and not about time management. My online class probably has the heaviest load I have right now and the hardest for me to complete.
If I have free time and an incomplete assignment, I won't do it if I have time later. I physically cannot sit to long doing it and if my grades show it, my dad will expect I am playing video games and say I play them too much, when it isn’t the case. Recently I have had a packed week; Sunday night was English homework, Monday night was history and french, Tuesday was English, and Wednesday. Wednesday my parents went out of town without telling me till the night before and that I cannot miss sailing practice. It is a problem because I have a french project Thursday that was assigned the Friday before. It can be argued that I procrastinated, but I used my weekend the way I wanted, then my week was full. Once I couldn’t spend time on homework it all fell apart. All the while I have to do my online class in my own time. Procrastination for me means someone managing my time thinks what they feel is more important isn’t being done.
I’m a huge procrastinator. HUGE. However, I don’t hold it against myself anymore. Why? Because by the time I get home from eight hours of school, two hours of track practice, and three hours of work, it’s 9:15PM, and the last thing I want to do is write essays, do an hour of pre-calculus homework, and read fifty pages of a book. This girl. Just. Wants. Rest. So, if getting rest and giving my mind the tiniest break from school requires me to do a homework-cram the next day during my online class, you bet I’m going to do it. It’s not because I’m bad at time-management or that I "don’t take my classes seriously" as my teachers like to say, but because of, as Lieberman said, “boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt and beyond.” All of which the teenage years reek of. Before you call me a lazy teenager, know that my procrastination is my current compromise between trying to get accepted into the college I've been dreaming of for years while still trying to live the life a sixteen-year-old should.
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Yes, I am a heavy procrastinator and it has had a big damper on my productivity. For school work wise I have been procrastinating all twelve years I have been in it and from my lack of care and my power of procrastination it has caused me to fail some of my classes. Numerous times I procrastinated project until the last night before it's due, and sometimes the procrastination lasts until the morning of the presentation. Once I waited until the hour before the presentation was due so in the middle of my US history class I whipped out a laptop and rushed the presentation creation process until the minute it was due. I think the source of all my procrastination routes back to not having the motivation of wanting to do the project or assignment. Another factor that I believes plays a part is how much time I have to do the assignment. If I had a day I'm more likely to do the work then if I had a week because I could always reason with myself that I had enough time.
Yes, I am a procrastinator and it definitely affects my performance in school and outside of school. It’s like everyday i procrastinate. There’s literally not a day that I don’t. Which is horrible but, i still manage to get stuff done on time just barely. Like for instance, I had a huge AP Research Multimedia Presentation due in about 2 weeks and i ended up waiting and pushing my time to work on it because initially i didn’t know what to write and how to start. Though, eventually when i finally concluded what i was going to present, i kept pushing time back and back until the deadline of actually having an outline of the presentation was due. I stayed up all night the night before and didn’t sleep until 3 in the morning BUT, i still wasn’t finished. Then, the even worse part was that i had missed that day of school and 3 more right after, so i was definitely behind. Later, i emailed my teacher (even thought i wasn’t finished) i requested for more time and what do you know..I got more time. I finished and I got very lucky.
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I am a procrastinator. I believe that my procrastination does affect my performance in school because it
holds me back from getting my work done that is due the next day. I wait till the last minute to due my
work and then when the time comes for me to turn it in, I turn in an assignment that was rushed and may
not sound as good if it was done the first day got it. But for others it could be the opposite. For example,
one of friends turns her work in on time but she wait till the day before to get it done because that's when
she produces her best work.
I’m a huge procrastinator. HUGE. However, I don’t hold it against myself anymore. Why? Because by the time I get home from eight hours of school, two hours of track practice, and three hours of work, it’s 9:15PM, and the last thing I want to do is write essays, do an hour of pre-calculus homework, and read fifty pages of a book. This girl. Just. Wants. Rest. So, if getting rest and giving my mind the tiniest break from school requires me to do a homework-cram the next day during my online class, you bet I’m going to do it. It’s not because I’m bad at time-management or that I "don’t take my classes seriously" as my teachers' like to say, but because of, as Lieberman said, “boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt and beyond.” All of which the teenage years reek of. Before you call me a lazy teenager, know that my procrastination is my current compromise between trying to get accepted into the college I've been dreaming of for years while still trying to live the life a sixteen-year-old should.
I am a procrastinator. Teachers can assign work to me weeks before, and I will still most likely start it the night before it is due. Procrastination has me much stress, as I frequently have late nights studying, and spend hours working on projects. I believe that the idea of studying early on scares me, so I do not want to spend time preparing for a test if I feel I do not understand the information.
As the article states, “The particular nature of our aversion depends on the given task or situation. It may be due to something inherently unpleasant about the task itself — having to clean a dirty bathroom or organizing a long, boring spreadsheet for your boss. But it might also result from deeper feelings related to the task, such as self-doubt, low self-esteem, anxiety or insecurity.” I agree with the article, that these are the roots of my procrastination. Often, I feel anxious about upcoming assignments, and that drives me to avoid completing them. In the future, I will do my best to try and change this bad habit.
I have always and, despite my many efforts to change, will most likely always be a procrastinator. Relating to the article, it is not a matter of not wanting to get the job done, but merely, having other things on my mind or to do first. Eventually, these ‘other things’ pile up and I am stuck doing things the day before and feeling stressed out. Procrastinating is a blockade when it comes to school, preventing the best and most thought out work which could be supplied while also causing a delay on potential time management. A way I found to counteract my bad habits was to buy a planner for my assignments and sit down for at least 30 minutes a day to work on any projects or homework I may have.
In a 2016 TED talk, Tim Urban describes the procrastinators mind as a battle between distractions and rational choices which I strongly agree to be a true statement that relates to what Ms. Lieberman argues as an emotional management issue. The root of procrastination is not laziness because as both the TED talk and article support, it is based upon the way individuals think and their emotional view of getting work done. I believe procrastination, while not always the most effective way of getting the job done, is a form of motivation individuals use to complete tasks and that it is such a tool which will be relevant in majority of individuals lives in the future.
Procrastinating is honestly inevitable for me at this point. If I made a dollar everytime I said the phrase “I’ll do it later”. I wouldn’t need school anymore. Hopefully this article will help me turn over a new leaf.
I am an extremely stressed person, and for some reason I still procrastinate. Why would I do such a thing that adds to the emotional roller coaster of high school? I find myself getting more and more anxious the closer the due date or test date become. But, instead of studying or doing that french project that's due tomorrow, I decide to go for a drive, go shopping, go to the beach, go to a friends house, I can name hundreds more excuses.
What I found interesting about this article is that Dr. Tim Pychyl made an eye opening comment about the definition of procrastination. He states “procrastination is an emotional regulation problem, not a time management problem”. Wow. You heard it here, your issue is not managing your time wisely, its regulating your emotions. Basically you get nothing done because you hate the idea of doing it or you have low self esteem and think it will never be good enough. Sounds great!
Procrastinating is part of my everyday life. I’m a huge procransiter and will try anything to avoid the project I know I need to start. Before I read this article I would have never thought to think as procranting as a mood or that the reason we put off a task is because we have a negative feeling towards it. This makes sense why most students are procrastinators. We are handed assignment after assignment on subjects we’re not interested in. We are forced to work long and hard on a project where that time could be used doing something else that we do want to.
I procrastinate. All the time. I will put anything and everything off until the last possible minute. I typically submit assignments due at midnight at around 11:45.
While this may be a problem for some, I have found that I work best at the last minute. Ideas flow easier, and I am definitely more creative. Working at the last minute also helps me to take risks that I wouldn’t take if I had been working on an assignment for weeks. However, I always face repercussions for my procrastination. Even though I do not start my work until the last minute, I begin to worry about it pretty much the minute it is assigned.
I know procrastinating is a problem, but I don’t really have time to deal with it right now. I’ll do it later.
Procrastination is my biggest issue as a high school student that juggles being a three-sport athlete, maintaining a social life, and getting good grades. Although it may seem like that is a recipe for a diligent worker… it is the complete opposite. When I get home from my 3-hour practices, I am so tired and beat up that I can’t even concentrate on doing simple homework but what keeps me from falling asleep is that I know that I have to complete it one way or the other. What doesn’t help my procrastination is the amount of homework I receive on an average night. It makes me want to put it off even more than I already do. The stress of the homework really gets to me which keeps me up late at night. When I don’t get enough sleep I am put at a disadvantage for the following day at school. Being so tired at school and being on the verge of falling asleep for my first three classes of the day, which by the way are three of my most important classes, is detrimental. Procrastination of a big issue amongst high school student but no matter the research or articles that can be written, it is in our blood to wait to finish our tasks at hand.
Since elementary school I have not struggled with procrastination until recently. After school when my grandma would pick me up from the bus stop I would immediately finish my homework so that my grandma and I could do something like go to the beach, play cards, or even bake. I would always finish my work early so that I was able to enjoy myself without having the thought of unfinished homework hanging over my head.
This year I have had a hard time completing my work. In contradiction to the article, I believe it is all out of laziness. I used to spend my lunch at school doing homework, now that I go out for lunch I actually have homework that must be completed at home. I find that every time I begin my homework I get extremely lazy and decide to leave it until I get to school the next morning. It’s not about my mood, it’s about the fact homework bores me. I prefer to spend the time I am bored during school to complete my homework assignments. Although this isn’t the best plan, it is what I have ended up doing to avoid being bored at home.
Procrastination is in my daily routine. I often find myself on my phone, cleaning my room, or binging a tv show rather than completing my homework after arriving home from school. I end up leaving my homework to be done lastly right before I go to bed.
“Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem" says Dr. Tim Pychyl which makes complete sense to me. With my personal experience, I find myself procrastinating the tasks that I associate a negative attitude with which would include homework. Dr. Sirois also agreed by saying we practically procrastinate based on bad moods.
Usually when I find myself procrastinating it just so happens to be when a big project or test that I am stressed about is coming up. The pressure to succeed or to become number one leaves me super stressed out, causing me to put it off, telling myself I will do it later. I will continue this until the last possible minute, in which I decide to get started. By this point, I am so far behind that project/ assignment that should have taken me ten minutes every day ends up taking me hours. While I am struggling through the assignment I tell myself “from now on I will star these on time.” HAHA. This will work until another big assignment comes up, and the same thing happens. Procrastination is something that we all do, and need to work on managing
A professor of psychology and member of the Procrastination Research Group, Dr. Tim Pychyl said, “Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem”. I agree with his statement because the problem isn’t about how many days I have to complete the project, it depends on what else is happening in my life at the moment. Even though procrastination is something that I will always need to improve on, I will continue to work harder at watching for it and keeping it under control.
I am a massive procrastinator.
There’s no way around it, I’ve always been one - waiting until the last day to study, doing entire projects on the last day - but it seems to have gotten particularly bad this year. I’m currently writing this comment at 12:02 after finishing an entire weeks worth of online homework in two hours, submitting everything in the final minutes before the midnight deadline. Every week, I know that my online work is due Wednesday at midnight, but I can never seem to get it done until then. I completely understand Dr. Hershfield when his research points to the idea that we tend to view our future selves as a stranger. Often when I think about doing my work ahead of time, I put it off feeling that it’s going to be my future self dealing with the problem I created which somehow doesn’t matter as much. Procrastination is definitely something that I need to work on in the future, it leads to a lack of sleep which in turn leads to more procrastination. From now on, I’m going to do my best to break up my work into smaller chunks instead of just staring at the intimidating stack of homework that I know that needs to be done before tomorrow.
First and foremost I would like to acknowledge that I laid in my bed for an hour and a half before going on my computer to do my homework. I found the article and thought it would be suitable and relatable to read. But answering the question of how does this affect your school performance is that it does take a toll on my performance. I’ll get home from whatever practice depending on the season, take a shower, then lay in my bed for a couple minutes… sometimes hours, and I find myself starting homework that should take me know more than an hour at about 10pm. But the procrastination does not end there, while I’m “doing” my homework I’ll continue to watch sportscenter or go on my phone. So I’m up until about 2 doing homework that should’ve been done at 10 or 11 at the latest. I know what I’m doing to myself, I just can’t help myself. What will I do tomorrow? Probably exactly what I just explained.
I do not consider myself a procrastinator because my total workload is so much, I have to break it up or I will never get caught up. I have a habit of focusing on one class a night, like if I know I have this big test coming up in history I will only focus on that and push everything else aside. I don't consider it officially "procrastinating" because I feel accomplished getting a little section of work knocked out, even though I have a lot more to do.
When doctor Peirs Steel explained that procrastination is a form of self harm, it kind of allowed me to walk through my study habit and see where I can improve. But yet again, when I will actually take the initiative to fix it?... I will get back to you on that one. yea I will get back to you on that one.
Most every high school student can admit to being a procrastinator. It really comes down to the assignment and due date for me. If the due date is a month out, I will not even think about it for a few weeks. If the assignment is busy work, I may do it the period before. After a long day at school and practice, the last thing on my mind is homework.
Like Dr. Pychyl and Dr. Sirois say, it also has to do with your attitude and feelings. If the assignment is easy and makes me feel better about myself and the class, I will knock it out with ease. Like the example in the article, that blank page staring back at me is intimidating. Those are usually the bigger, more important assignments that I should be getting done immediately with time to spare. I agree with the conclusion Dr. Fuschia developed. Procrastinating is irrational and I especially know the consequences it could have. Similar to everyone else, I still do it for some unexplainable reason. It feels bad at first, but once you sit down to enjoy something you love, that important assignment leaves as quickly as it came. Procrastinating has a weird effect on your brain.
I found that once you begin the assignment, the rest comes easy as your brain slowly awakens and realizes that getting it done now will lead to benefits in the future. Sitting down to write this, I didn’t know where to begin, but once I started writing all of the pieces started to fly into position.
Am I, a student who turns everything in on time and never misses an assignment, a procrastinator? Why yes I am. I would finish answering these questions but I would much rather go organise my shirts by color or, I don’t know, run a marathon. I will finish sometime soon though.
With work, sports, and school, it can be hard trying to find the time to sit down and focus on your homework. So many students have other priorities that they would rather be doing, when they are given their own time. Regardless of this, the work must be done somehow. Personally, I believe staying organized is a key factor in finding that balance, from schools to other priorities. If we stay organized, we are saving time,and managing our things more efficiently.
For me procrastinating has always been a big reason why I am up so late at night. I contemplate the things I should be doing, with the things I want to do. I knew, after failing my first test from procrastination, that it wasn’t healthy. So I reconstructed my time, into something that would help me… staying organized. This later benefited me greatly. It helped me manage my time and deadlines more efficiently.
In Charlotte Lieberman article “ Why You Procrastinate,” she writes, “ People engage in this irrational cycle of chronic procrastination because of an inability to manage negative moods around a task, “. Lieberman is explaining how procrastination is an effect of lack of management. If we keep organized we can keep a more positive mind set, to help with our procrastination. After all, Organization is only there to benefit us. It helps us define what has come, and what has yet to come.
"Ill do it tomorrow, I have enough time." It's an excuse that everyone uses. I am a procrastinator. When I have homework, I procrastinate always. There is always something that peaks my interest more than my work at hand. And sometimes that includes cleaning my room. My phone is what causes most of my problems. It sits there next to me and I feel the constant temptation to check it. I know if I check it, Ill get sucked into another subject that isn't work. Procrastination is a major problem for me. It is my main block for school. I think I can just keep pushing it off until the night before its due and I run out of time. For me, I don't have something at the end of my work that entices me to finish, this only allows me to get more off track. I can't seem to ever find motivation and everything has the potential to sidetrack me and make me ignore my work and push it to later.
I agree with Ms. Lieberman's view that procrastination is mostly about emotions. When I have an assignment to write I run through a cycle of emotions. Negative thoughts start with "I don't want to do it." Then I get angry and frustrated knowing I need to work on it. I usually get upset & too tired after no progress is made but when I do complete something I get a kind of euphoria that it's over. Knowing I try and can't get it done fills me with anxiety before I even begin. I think maybe more positive feedback might give me more motivation. Consequences and ultimatums just bring me down further.
Procrastination is a big problem in my life. For example, I procrastinated writing this, but here I am. Finally. The thing that stops me from getting over my procrastination is that I always end up getting everything done. Maybe not when I wanted, or how I wanted, but it all works out in the end.
Although, I do remember one specific time I procrastinated; I had an idea for a drawing. I came up with the idea a little before winter break started, so I figured I could start it during winter break. That way, I’d have plenty of time to finish, and I could do even more art after that. So, I worked on it for a little bit during the first day of winter break, and then I left it. Towards the end of winter break, I worked on it a bit more every day, and that was it. I haven’t touched the drawing since December, and it’s nearly April. I should probably finish that soon.
In the article, it uses “cleaning the spice drawer” as an example of being productive while still procrastinating. Personally, I can relate to this a lot. Even if I’m not necessarily being lazy instead of doing what I should, I’ll find something else to do to avoid the task. This includes things like cleaning, organizing, or even leaving my house. This is a really bad habit, and during this year and next, I should try to break this bad habit. This way, I can get things done how and when I want.
Honestly, yes. I find myself procrastinating weekly if not daily, which is a problem that I have been aware of but changing it has not happened yet. After reading this article I was beyond shocked, I had no idea it was not a time management problem but a way to cope with challenging emotions and bad moods. Looking at it from the same perspective as Dr. Tim Pychyl, I completely agree because it all makes sense. When I have a huge project on a topic I do not enjoy I procrastinate way more than a project on something I find interesting. This article really changed procrastination for me, I feel like when I procrastinate I can now identify what and why I am procrastinating.
When I was young, I always used to procrastinate on assignments. I would do school projects the night before, put off reading in my books, and generally say “I’ll do it later”. About halfway through middle school, I realized that this wasn’t going to work. I had been getting more and more schoolwork and it was hard to keep up. I realized the problem wasn’t with the amount of work, but how I approached it. By eighth grade, I was down to only two-ish hours of homework each night thanks to not putting stuff off. I agree with the article’s point that “Procrastination... [is] a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks: boredom, anxiety... ”. When I found myself bored or anxious about schoolwork, I was less likely to do it. I disagree with the article’s assertion that procrastination isn’t a time-management problem though. In high school, I’ve had to manage my time even better than I used to. Freshman year, I had a really hard chemistry class that I had to pour a ton of work into. I ended up doing really well in the class, and despite all the late nights, I’m glad that I had the harder teacher. It taught me essential work time management skills and helped me prevent future procrastination. Ultimately though, I’m not perfect. I still occasionally put off doing school assignments, usually for the sake of getting a good night’s sleep or ironically, being able to finish other assignments.
I wouldn't call myself a procrastinator, always trying to get everything done to prevent fear, pressure, and failure. Sometimes I do, not lying about that. It seems to happen without notice for me. Everyone has met that one person who pushes up the due date just as a result of finishing early…….Yep, that's me. “Staring at a blank document, you might be thinking, I’m not smart enough to write this. Even if I am, what will people think of it? Writing is so hard. What if I do a bad job?“ This statement made by Jeremy Eagle couldn't describe me better. Even though I am not a procrastinator, these thoughts run through my head. Words which motivate me to get started, make sure to be putting in my best effort and always asking if in need of help. For me, if I deeply care about what needs to be done I am sure to complete it. I find myself procrastinating on gross jobs from cleaning the bathroom, washing the dog, cutting the grass and more. Not completing tasks and only procrastinating have negative impacts. Everyone should strive to not procrastinate, the rewards will be greater than the negative effects.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/learning/are-you-a-procrastinator.html
Are you a procrastinator? If yes, how does procrastination affect your life and performance in school?
Almost every time I have an assignment due I find myself waiting until an hour or two before it is due to even look at the directions. But this method has never failed me. Not once have I procrastinated and ended up not turning in the work plus I always end up getting good grades — which is why I continue to use this method after three years. I agree with the author when she states that procrastination is not a result of laziness. In my opinion, when I wait until the last minute to get my work done, it helps me done quicker. I have found that I work better under pressure. Knowing that the deadline is closer pushes me and gives me the motivation to get it done. When a teacher hands out an assignment on Monday and tells the class it is due on Friday, it seems physically impossible to get it done. If I try to start the project early, I have the constant reminder in my head that I have more time to complete this, and could be spending my time doing something else. As long as I continue to turn my work in on time and get good grades, I don’t see an effect in my life in school or at home.
I am either an excessive procrastinator or an extreme anti-procrastinator, there is rarely an in-between. In my phone, I schedule reminders for minute tasks just to ensure that I do them at the right time. I should email that teacher two days ahead of the class I'm asking to be excused from, or make the walk to the guidance office to turn in that permission slip four days before it's due. It's more exhausting, to me, to carry a list of tasks in my mind than to just do them. Remembering that I'll have to do my assignment tomorrow is more anxiety inducing than just doing it tonight. If it's a big assignment and I have hours of free time ahead of me, though, I'll delay it until the last minute possible- and probably have to stay up finishing it, anyways. Doing a twelve page packet on American politics in the Gilded Era is pure agony; why wouldn't I put it off? The anxious part of my mind insists I complete the assignment before the due date tomorrow, but its procrastinator counterpart persuades me to spend another half hour reading the Wikipedia page for the now extinct Turnspit dog before I start. Who am I to say what's more productive?
Do I procrastinate? Is that even a question; yes and time after time I try and get myself not to but it always ends up happening. With the amounts of work we are given in school, making time for each assignment without procrastinating seems quite impossible. When reading the article whoever brought up a very reasonable reason why kids and adults procrastinate saying, Procrastination isn’t a unique character flaw or a mysterious curse on your ability to manage time, but a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks — boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt and beyond.” Now no one can deny that they are going to do work when they are in a bad mood and if you do, you end up telling yourself that it is not going to be your best work. In 2019, the main distraction is no doubt, our phones. I will be sitting there on my phone and then all of a sudden a snapchat pops up and I immediately want to answer it. Since I got my schedule for next year and the level of classes I am taking, I will definitely have to learn to manage my time better.
"I still have two nights, I'll do it tomorrow." That is a common phrase for me with anything relating to school. I put off projects, homework and studying. I know that it does me no good so why do I do it? I honestly have no clue, I tend to construct better work when I am under pressure but, it also affects the amount of stress I am under.
Procrastination is just part of being a high schooler. I don't think many students can truthfully say they do all of their studying or all a project right away. Maybe some can, but it's human nature for us to put off school work and other assignments or chores we do not find interest in.
"Wait. We procrastinate because of bad moods? In short: yes." I didn't acknowledge, until reading this, that this statement is completely true regarding me. When I am in a good mood, I get my work done proficiently. I turn on some music and get right to work but, when I am stressed or frustrated, I do everything I can to distance myself from school work and /or chores.
At the beginning of the school year, teachers ask you what your goals are, what would you want to improve by the end of the year. I have to admit that every year I find myself writing the same words. Procrastination. By writing that word down every year and dealing with it everyday I am starting to believe that it is who I am, but I still don't want to accept it.
Lieberman gives the perfect definition of procrastination, "Procrastination .... a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt and beyond." I would have to say that all those factors apply to me when I think about the assigned work I have to complete. I can not explain the frustration I have when my mom is speaking to me about time management, that the way I keep blowing off all my work, it's unacceptable. If the assignment was written in great black striking letters telling me to do my work, it still wouldn't get done.
I chose this prompt in english class eight hours ago. I was planning on starting my response to the question, Are You a Procrastinator?, right then and there. However, my mind had other plans apparently. I checked my grades for a good five minutes, scanned the same five prompt options for another five minutes, and then looked at comments for this question for another five minutes. Next thing I knew the bell went off and I was off to my next class and then the end of the school day.
Once the school day ended I went straight to practice and got home at around 5:30. When I got home I was thinking to myself, Nice, I have time to get my work done. Like before, one thing led to another and I sat on my phone for a good forty-five minutes until it was time to eat dinner— pizza.
I finished my pizza and went to the couch to watch a little bit of T.V, telling myself I would write this response and my other writing assignment that is also due tomorrow. To say the least, I did not start my writing after a little bit, and I am sitting here writing this prompt at nine o’clock.
When I first started this prompt by creating the document at noon, I never planned on finishing it so late, it just happened. I realized that I was putting myself in a bad situation for the future, but it did not matter much then. Present-Luke doesn’t care much for future-Luke when it comes to getting my homework done. I am a procrastinator, not on purpose, but by laziness.
I am a terrible procrastinator. Every time I get anything I tell myself: “This time will be different. I’ll get a head start on it this time”. I never do. I absolutely agree with Dr. Piers Steel when he says that “procrastination is a form of self harm”. It ruins my life, I never get anything done until the last minute, but I’m never happy until I get it done. The whole point of not doing boring or difficult things is that you have fun instead, but I find myself plagued by anxiety and guilt the whole time. My problem is that I am a good student, so I know that I’ll still get a good grade even if I put in almost no effort at the very last minute.
In fact, I’m procrastinating right now. I have a project due tomorrow that I haven’t started yet, and instead I’m writing this comment for the New York Times. I should be doing the project, but it’s a daunting task, and I hate myself for not doing it. I know I’ll be able to finish it, and I know I’ll do well, but I still worry about the simple act of starting it. The only way I ever get anything done is by building up enough disgust with myself that I can’t bear to sit around another minute, so I just do whatever I’m procrastinating so I can go back to being lazy. I know that I need to take command of my life and do things in a timely manner, but it’s much easier to just wait for another five minutes.
I am a procrastination addict. I don't think I've ever completed a project ahead of time. The night before its due has become an actual date in my calendar. I tell myself that its because I work better under stress. Maybe thats true and maybe its not, I won't know until I overcome my chronic procrastination. I always put off writing essays for class. Every 10 minutes I tell myself that I'll write it in 10 minutes. I never do. The problem is, I get a good grade on it despite doing it the night of. This reassurance of my procrastination skills does nothing to deter me from doing the same thing again and again.
Although I wish it weren't true, I agree with Ms. Lieberman's statement. There will be weeks where I procrastinate every single assignment, and at the end of the week, I completely break down. There have been 2 instances already this year where I've had to stay home from school because I couldn't stop sobbing.
My parents get mad when I procrastinate, but their constant yelling actually pushes me to procrastinate more, just to prove a point. One thing that gets me to start working is to yell at myself about my future. I tell myself that with bad grades, I won't get into a good college, and I'll fail at my dreams. This gets me to work hard. Giving myself little breaks every 30 minutes also helps.
Dr. Tim Pychyl, a professor of psychology and member of the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University in Ottawa, said, “Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem”. I completely agree with his statement.
I often find myself procrastinating when I am stressed about an assignment. The pressure and anxiety to succeed leads to me putting it off and telling myself I will do it later. I tend to overwork myself and pile so much work into one sitting I am constantly overwhelmed.
I deal with my procrastination the best way I can by organizing. I make a plan of when and how I will get my assignments done and stick to my methods. I pace myself and achieve as much as I can without the negative emotions of stress and anxiety. Though procrastination is something I'm sure I will always do, I will continue to work toward facing it.
Charlotte Lieberman writes, “That self-awareness is a key part of why procrastinating makes us feel so rotten. When we procrastinate, we’re not only aware that we’re avoiding the task in question, but also that doing so is probably a bad idea. And yet, we do it anyway.” I couldn’t agree with this statement more because I’m a huge procrastinator. No matter how many times I tell myself something needs to be done, I still ignore it. There’s a whole list of things I should and want to do in my head, but it’s growing faster than I can complete it.
I’ve always dealt with my procrastination in a simple, semi-effective way: I remove all distractions and repeat my task to myself over and over again. Sometimes it works while other times I ignore my own advice. I’d never heard about forgiving myself or managing emotions until I read this article because I always associated procrastination with laziness. It’s always interesting to learn something new and see how it compares to your own life.
I would say it depends on the class if I procrastinate or not. If its a class i like and am good at i wont procrastinate. But if its a math project and I don't understand it and cant figure it out ill wait till the night before to start it.
Honestly, I have a problem. I know I procrastinate, and I know I can stop myself from procrastinating, but I still do.
I think the issue is that my procrastinatory practices almost always go unpunished. I have found that I always do my best work under extreme pressure, and that despite my tendency to delay my work to the last second, I almost never feel truly stressed.
I know that someday I will pay for my laziness, but I’ve realized that I’m not terribly concerned. I always tell myself that I need to change, but I never really have a reason to.
However, the day will come when I no longer have the luxury of waiting, and I need to prepare for that. While I may not be stressed right now, I will be in the future, and I must start overcoming my innate laziness now.
I wholeheartedly agree with doctor Peirs Steel when he says that procrastination is a form of self harm. It hasn't exactly harmed me yet, but I know it will.
However, with the eventual proper motivation, I'm sure I can overcome my procrastination.... later.
I procrastinate too much. I always find myself finishing up everything the night before its due. I always think to myself, "oh its not due tomorrow, I don't have to work on it right now." And then I find myself staying up late, trying to finish it, while loosing hours of sleep. There has been nights when I have stayed up until 5 in the morning trying to finish a project. I always tell myself that that needs to stop, but it never does. I'm gonna try to get better at it. Once I apply myself and put my phone down I can get to work and work for hours, but sometimes I just cant get started. In the article, it states, "That self-awareness is a key part of why procrastinating makes us feel so rotten. When we procrastinate, we’re not only aware that we’re avoiding the task in question, but also that doing so is probably a bad idea. And yet, we do it anyway." This shows that your not aware of the consequences until the time comes.
Everyone procrastinates, you would be lying if you say otherwise. As a high school student athlete I would say that I procrastinate all of the time. Most days I leave my house at 7:30am and don't get back until 9pm. When I get home I'm not only mentally exhausted from the day, I'm physically spent as well. The last thing I want to do is do two or three hours of homework.
I 110% agree with Dr.Pychyl and Dr.Sirois when they say that we procrastinate not because of the work we have to do, but how we feel before we start. I have had days where I love doing my homework; I feel smart, proactive and it boosts my self-esteem when I understand it. When I feel tired or frustrated I will more often than not set aside my homework for "later".
Homework is inevitable, I will always have homework to do after school whether I like it or not. Sports will also not make it easier because it takes time away from studying. However, what will make everyone's situation better (if you are a frequent procrastinator) is learning how to manage the time you have and maintaining a positive attitude.
I have to admit, I am the worst when it comes to procrastination, in school & outside of school. I find that I work better under stress, so I tend to plan out my work at the last minute because I know I will get it done. My theory: if you wait last minute to do your assignment, you know it has to get done, whereas if you have time you know you can procrastinate.
I do admit that procrastination isn't a good thing, & it isn't something I should continue doing. The article talks about "But it might also result from deeper feelings related to the task, such as self-doubt, low self-esteem, anxiety or insecurity." Sometimes I procrastinate because I already know I am doing bad in a class so I don't have the motivation to do my work. I have no motivation & that is a major reason I procrastinate.
I procrastinate everything, school work and even other things in my life. Anytime I have an assignment, a test to study for or a project, I wait until the last second to begin working on it. I don't mean to be a procrastinator, it just happens. I tell myself over and over to get my work done, but the same thing happens every time- I procrastinate.
I always get my work done, even if it requires that I loose large amounts of sleep which ultimately affects me the next day. In the article it says that "Procrastination isn't a unique character flaw or a mysterious curse... but a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks- boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt and beyond." School brings up negative emotions therefore it is difficult to feel inspired and motivated to complete work in a timely manner.
Procrastination is definitely something that I need to work on in order to improve my quality of life. I find myself doing the most random things while avoiding and procrastinating things in my life. I will randomly clean my room or organize, tasks I absolutely hate doing but they happen when I procrastinate.
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I have found that the easiest way for me to avoid procrastinating is to make the transition from procrastinating to getting started on my work as seamless as possible. As the article states, “Motivation follows action. Get started, and you’ll find your motivation follows.” I always put on chill music when I am starting my homework because it tricks me into feeling like I haven’t started working. Then I set up my paper by formatting it with my name, date, question numbers, etc., so that way I am tricking my mind, into feeling less intimidated by the work ahead of me. It makes me feel like I’m already halfway there; all I have to do is find the answers, and how hard could that be, right?
Despite all these tricks to get me started on my homework faster, there is still one thing that I can’t stop from fueling my procrastination, and that is that I still get the work done in time no matter how long I procrastinate. I am not the kind of procrastinator that waits until the day the assignments due to do it; I have never been in the car scribbling down answers or trying to do a whole project in the span of 20 minutes. I am the kind of procrastinator that waits until the night before but doesn’t stop working until the assignment is done to the best of my abilities, no matter how late I have to stay up. My work doesn’t suffer from this cycle of procrastination, but, unfortunately, my sleep schedule definitely does.
I thoroughly enjoyed this article. it got me thinking...would it be possible that a type of insomnia is due to procrastination? the longer the body stays awake and distracted, the more time it thinks it can avoid negative emotions that arise when alone with one's thoughts. just a hunch.
I procrastinate almost too much. I catch myself doing it almost every time I have a test to study for or an assignment to complete, yet I continue to do the same thing over and over again. Each time I do it, I tell myself I will manage my time better the next go round, but that is unlikely to happen knowing me. I get overwhelmed very easily so when homework and tests pile up on each other, I resort to my looking at my phone or playing with my dog, which isn't what I should really be focusing on at the moment.
Procrastination is usually a result of stress when applied to myself. When I begin to feel like I can't do something or I'm not smart enough, I have that mindset and turn my attention to something more entertaining. Charlotte Lieberman writes, "Procrastination isn’t a unique character flaw or a mysterious curse on your ability to manage time, but a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks — boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt and beyond." This information helps give me a better understanding of the whole concept because procrastination really is an odd thing, allowing us to drop the important things we are doing for something else to clear our head.
As much as I try, procrastination is too hard to prevent sometimes but it can be beneficial. It is good to give yourself an opportunity to rest your brain and regain that positive mindset, as long as you go back to work ad get everything done on time!
Thank you, Mr. Engle, for this insightful piece. Indeed, procrastination is not about not wanting to do the work - it's about not wanting to feel certain emotions. I live in the SF Bay Area, prone to major earthquakes and have been putting off getting together a real emergency preparedness kit for years. I thought I just couldn't be bothered. But after reading this piece I realized I was putting off the severe anxiety that I feel when I think about such an event. I've spent the day researching and buying supplies which will arrive in a few days. So perhaps thanks to you, we'll be better off when/if the Big One hits!
Yes i'm a procrastinate when i have an assignment i think i have a lot of time to do this but i put it off till the next day till the next till it is due it is affecting my grades i don't do nothing about it but i should start doing things about it. IT is a big problem with my life
Yes, i'm definitely a procrastinator, not to the point where it actually has some impact on my life though. I would say im a safe procrastinator, I will procrastinate at times when i’m feeling stressed out or overwhelmed, but eventually get the task, that has been procrastinated, done in enough time to stay relaxed about it. I wouldn't say my procrastination affects my performance in school, but it’s caused by school. I get stressed when I continue to receive an abundance of homework and projects each week from different classes, this is usually when I get upset and begin to freak out, causing me to turn to procrastination as a source of stress relief. For example, this week I have two major essays, four tests, and a weeks worth of homework to handle. At this point i'm stressed out to a point where i’ll procrastinate on half of the assigned projects so I can relax and prepare myself for the rest. I actually find that my procrastination helps me more than affect me in a bad way. So even though i’m a procrastinator, I don't see it as a negative, but more as a coping mechanism for life.
I would consider myself a procrastinator, but not for school. Even though I am doing terribly in school because I recently moved to a whole new state. Whereas I used to live in a small town in Texas, now I live in an even smaller town in Oklahoma, which you think a smaller town would be a good thing. Surprisingly, the difference in curriculum is vastly different. Also, there is so much for work to do each day and it has been very difficult for me to transition into doing so much work. Where I previously lived, I was projected to graduate my junior year, whereas where I moved to, I am more than likely going to fail my sophomore year.
I am a procrastinator for my life. For example, I was laying in bed the other day, just thinking about starting a YouTube channel, where I would talk about new and upcoming vehicles while using infographics to make it easier to get information across to the viewers. I told myself that it was a great idea and I would get started the next day after I got home from school. I know its possible and I have all the equipment to produce and edit videos and a quality microphone to do the voiceovers. I just didn't want to put in the effort to do it.
But after reading this article and writing this comment, I am going to go home today and I am going to get this started, no matter what it takes.
Procrastination is an issue everyone deals with, whether it is putting off a school assignment, waiting till the night before to study for anything, putting off work your boss gave you, ect. I’ve dealt with it as i'm sure the rest of the world has. Procrastination lets you breathe for a split second until the due date comes and the whole assignment comes crashing down on you all at one moment. It happens EVERY SINGLE TIME, and yet I still do it. I have tried to work on time management because I always believed that was the source, but in fact it is “..a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks — boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt and beyond.”
After reading the article I have found that as I am currently putting off a large paper it's not because I don’t have time, it’s because I feel that my essay will not be good enough to get into the program that I am writing it for. I have a required topic that I must write a paper about and I have tried writing it from multiple points but every time I begin to get anxiety as I write it so I just shut my computer and go on social media instead. It provides a sense of relief knowing that I'm procrastinating, not out of laziness, but because of my emotions. It’s something overtime I need to work on and I now have that realization.
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I am a procrastinator. Almost every homework assignment ends up getting put off until a few hours before it is due. I have done this in every class in every school that I have been to. When I do something at the last minute, I usually do a better job. I do it faster and better than when I do it early.
At the end of freshman year, I had long assignment. I had to make a small book over my experiences that year and my future plans. I had one month to do it. I started it the day it was due. The book itself was poorly made, so I made jokes about it in the pages. It had twice as many pages as it needed so I added an extra page of content about all the things I messed up while making the book, not writing it. I turned it in and the teacher chuckled while reading it. She gave me an A.
Procrastination is extremely common throughout our society and I certainly add to this by being a procrastinator. My procrastination has gotten better through high school because I have focused on getting my important tasks done rather than "organizing my spice drawer". I haven't procrastinated as much since I started making to-do lists because these lists put everything I have to accomplish into perspective.
That being said, I still procrastinate. It's inevitable for everyone to procrastinate in one way or another because of our emotions. Dr. Tim Pychyl speaks on this throughout the article and it's something that everyone can relate to. Everybody puts off something, either homework or maybe texting the friend you didn't want to reply to. But this article explains the science behind procrastination which can help some people understand why they procrastinate.
After viewing the New York Times article "Are you a procrastinator" yes a big one!! I always wait for the last minute to do anything and I am constantly using the words "I will do it later" I mean when you think about it there are many other things can do before homework. For example give my dog a walk, clean my room, and oh yeah Netflix isn't going to watch its self. I should put school first but I have trouble focusing on the work at hand. Overall I am a huge procrastinator and should start putting school first.
I've always been a procrastinator when it comes to pretty much anything. Even back in first grade there were times where I didn't even do my homework because I had no interest in doing it.
I always seem to have something better to do then study, even if it is scrolling through Instagram or Snapchat for hours. I try to motivate myself to do my work, but the hard part is I've never started with good study habit foundation. I don't know why my first grade teacher never talked to me about doing my work, so when it came to school, I didn't really develop a good work ethic.
Okay, I admit it, I procrastinate a little. Alright fine, I procrastinate a lot!
I can never seem to wrap my head around getting a project, essay, or math worksheet done. Whenever I even think about the pile of work that is waiting for me on my desk I start to panic. These emotions raid my body and steal away my breath. Sadly, I have gotten into the habit of organizing in a way of putting off work to decrease my sudden fears.
"Procrastination isn’t a unique character flaw or a mysterious curse on your ability to manage time, but a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks — boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt and beyond." This quote within the article sums up procrastination better than I ever could. I can't help feeling anxious about every assignment on my plate. In my mind, pushing the work away helps, but in reality it doesn't at all. All it does it help me calm down until another wave or terror hits.
I need to start battling procrastination and just get the work done with. Procrastination clearly isn't helping, it just makes me more anxious when that final deadline hits. I'm scurrying around like a mouse in a maze, trying to get as much done in the least amount of time. Dr. Piers Steel from the article claims "It's self harm." and in a way she is correct. Procrastination is something students like me need to pull the reins on because over time, it will surely destroy you.
Perfectionists can also be procrastinators. Being afraid that the project you want to tackle won’t be quite right even if you try. You may not have the tools and materials or time, i.e.,
as you say, throwing up roadblocks.
We know that perfection is the enemy of good. We just have to accept good enough.
But what excuses do lawyers have ? I know there is no law school course such as Procrastination 101.
Is this just a curious thing about the profession or what ? I don’t know; and some of my best friends are lawyers.
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Thank you 😊 for your attention to this laughed at , but very real problem.
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God bless a free press.
I procrastinated getting ready for work because I was reading this article.
After reading the article "Are You a Procrastinator?" I am a big procrastinator, especially in cleaning. Im not a flaker when it comes to friends and family or procrastinate into not going with them but I procrastinate in general cleaning. I always say to myself "Wow what a messy room, might as well clean it", two minutes later I'm watching youtube. The article states that procrastination hurts your well being and it does. Humans are creatures of habit and if we keep procrastinating we won't stop. In conclusion if we unlock that safe of a conscious and get the job done soon we all will be completing responsible and important tasks involuntarily.
I'm pretty sure the term procrastination was made for me. I have no clue how I'm an A/B student with my procrastination.
Unfortunately or fortunately, I can't decide, I fall under the category of a perfectionist procrastinator. By reading the article, I now know why I procrastinate, and I can definitely see the connection. The one thing that I majorly procrastinate on is school. I'm usually behind or far ahead, but I always get things in by the due date, true to my semi-perfectionism.
Like the article mention, we often procrastinate due to emotions like "boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, [and] self-doubt." which relate to the task that we are procrastinating. I feel that way about school. I know that I SHOULDN'T procrastinate, but it just happens anyways. There are a few classes I find fun, such as History, World Language, Science, and sometimes English that I have fun with and I don't procrastinate on. Classes that I have fun in are the classes I tend to be the most on top of.
I probably don't even realize I'm procrastinating half the time. There's the obvious watching of Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Video, etc. What about all the times I walk downstairs, look in the fridge, text a friend, clean my room, when I should be doing homework. I know that this is something I should work on, and I need to. The question is if I will, or put it off to another day.
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I very much relate to the example given in the article. I often find myself not being able to do certain things (mostly school work), but its not necessarily simply because I decide NOT to do it, but rather because something else is taking up my time.
Much like cleaning prevented alphabetizing the spice drawer, after school activities like soccer keep me from being able to get everything I need to get done, well... done.
I wouldn't necessarily say however, that participating in sports and other out of school activities is HARMFUL as Dr. Fuschia Sirois says, however school is certainly more important than soccer is.
Throughout the article, it is explained that procrastination comes from a focus in the moment. It is not from a place of ignorance. You know you SHOULDN'T be procrastinating, yet we "against our better judgement" do it anyway.
So, no... I wouldn't say I procrastinate, but I do have activities that keep me from getting things done (in a timely fashion at least).
I think procrastination always has a reason for it and can be productive. Some people do other productive things instead of doing what should be prioritized which means that they are not being lazy, they just have other things to do. Sometimes you don't have the right head space to do an assignment for school. Personally, I choose to clean my room or do the laundry instead of an assignment for school and it is usually because I can't focus on the school subject.
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I am the procrastinator. I think the main saurce is my anxiety. I may need to do my military service. I already delay my military service for about 2 years. If I go army, my F1 visa will be expired, and it is really hard to get another one if I am not studying in the United States. Also, my English skill will be much wore than now.
I will major in Engineerings and the math is really important for that area. However, I need at least half of year to study those stuff that I forget about.
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I agree with Ms. Lieberman's arguement that procrastination is not about being lazy or bad time managment but about managing our emotions. Sometimes when we don't feel like doing the task that we should be doing, we get angry because the task seems unessessary or pointless and we would rather do something else, something "better" with our time. How we cope with these bad emotions is we tend do something else, wether it is cleaning or taking a dog for a walk, we do what we can to generate good emotions by distracting ourselves from the important task.
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Procrastination affects my life and my performance in school by making it much more difficult for me to achieve my goals, or even hindering my ability to make the grades I am capable of making. For example, my English teacher assigned us a quiz grade where we had to make dialectical journals, identifying the writing techniques in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and gave us the assignment a week in advance. I continued to put off the grade, prioritizing other pieces of homework or studying for other classes, until I ended up completing the assignment the morning it was due. For me, procrastination is an issue that makes my life often more stressful, but it is an obstacle that I can work around. I have tried different methods of organization, hoping to avoid the situation I constantly find myself in. I think Ms. Lieberman's argument is interesting and probably has some reliable facts, but I disagree that procrastination is an emotional reaction. I think that while subconsciously the feelings that Ms.Lieberman brings up might play a role in the decision to procrastinate, I believe that the biggest motive behind high schoolers procrastinating, is a sense of laziness, a lack of motivation, and an lack of interest in the assignment. The stresses and anxiety of school can be overwhelming, and I think that some people deal with it by trying to minimize the amount of time they spend working. I think the best way to solve procrastination is to prioritize every aspect of school.
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I think that personally I'm a procrastinator. Procrastinating has a bad effect on me, especially my in school performance. One of the biggest reason for that is because I know that I should and I'm totally capable of completing the task on time but I just don't do it. I just always make up an excuse for myself to not do it at this second and I would tell myself that I'll do it sometimes later. Then I ended up doing it last minute, have it in late or even not doing it. There was one time when I knew that I have to do a 300 words essay for my history class, I knew I could finish that within 15 minutes but then I told myself I would do it later on that night because I need to take a shower apparently, then when I actually start doing it, it was pretty late and I fell asleep 2 sentences into my essay. The result was that my teacher took off 20% of my total grade and I ended up with a B in that essay, I would've got a A :(
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