Procrastination: Understanding and Overcoming It

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How To Avoid Procrastination You have a deadline just around the corner. But instead of doing your work you are messing around with miscellaneous things and checking twitter, facebook, instagram, and other social media sites. When doing all of them miscellaneous things you know that you should be working but you just don 't feel like doing any of your work. Most people are very familiar with the term, “ procrastination”. When people like myself procrastinate we waste away all of our free time and put off important assignments and or task until its too late. It may not be “late” but there is usually not enough time to do the assignment or task to the best of your ability. We then panic to get the work done and always wish we had started earlier. For example, I just started my process essay at twelve o 'clock at night, …show more content…

Most people are fully aware of the dates the work is due, but most of us get the impression that we have a lot a time before we need to start working on it. So we set it aside to do later and then before we know it, it is too late. The first step to help avoid procrastination is to have a planner. Having a planner will allow you to keep track of all your assignments and their due dates. This way, you will know that you have to finish each assignment by a certain date. You may have a planner with all of your assignments to do but you have to have motivation to do them. Having motivation is the next step to avoid procrastination. In most cases people claim that they procrastinate because they have no motivation to do any of the work. You can motivate yourself by setting the due date a week or even a day earlier than the actual due date. I know that when I get an assignment done before the actual due date or even five minutes before its due I feel like i 'm on top of the world. Having a little motivation will get you a long ways when it comes to avoiding

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