Procrastination Expert

Do you ever have that paper that you are just dreading to write so you put it off until the very last minute? Are you always studying the night before an exam, cramming your brain with all the information long enough to pass the test? If you’re like me, a procrastinator, it happens to you all the time. Procrastinating school work is a reoccurring thing in my life that I always vow to change yet somehow I always find a reason to push it off just one-more-day.

It seems we always know what we should do and when we should do. But knowing and doing are two completely different things. For example, if I know something is do in one week I don’t think that I should get it done soon so it is ready but instead think that I have six days before I have to start it. It is all too easy to ignore the task when something more important or interesting is presented to you in the mean time. It is extremely easy for me to procrastinate when it is something I don’t want to do.

As I’m sure many of you do, I feel like procrastinating brings a lot of stress to my life. When you wait until the last minute to do everything you are often not prepared for the things you didn’t expect. This usually leads to a time crunch where you don’t do your best work or you don’t finish.

I found a blog article written by Henrik Edberg called, How to Stop Procrastinating: 7 Timeless Tips which highlights some great points to help hinder procrastinating. Tip #3 is my favorite, Just Take the First Step. This is often the hardest thing for me to do. After I have finished a school assignment, I usually think, “that wasn’t so bad” and regret not starting it earlier. Procrastinating taking the first step of a task can happen because you are thinking about how hard or long the task may be. It’s like psyching yourself out before a big game.

Procrastination has become a habit of my academic career. I think I may read this article over and over until I make some changes to stop procrastinating. Even today as I sit here writing this blog, an hour before it’s due, I think to myself, “I wish I had just started it earlier, it really wasn’t so bad.”