We all go through many obstacles in our life, and most of the time, we don't know what to do about it. I have an obstacle that I am currently going through. I am a very bad procrastinator, and for the past week, I have been struggling with beginning this essay. Everyone goes through hardships in their life. It's a completely normal thing. We need to learn however, what to do in these situations. We might feel like we want to give up right away, this is because we may think that it's too much to handle, or there's nothing we can do about it. Thankfully, I have finally learned how to deal with my procrastination and start on my essay, as you can clearly see. We all go through bumps on the road, we just have to break down the situation, stand strong, and work through them. This is not the only time that I have dealt with this obstacle. I have always had a hard time getting started on my work. This essay, just happens to be another one of those things. If I had begun this essay one time, I wouldn't be so stressed right now, …show more content…
If your stuck on something in life, we just need to take a step back, look at the situation, and break it into small chunks for you to handle at a time. For step one, I took a step back and thought to myself logically that this is only four paragraphs. Which in reality is not that much. Also, if I spend my time not doing it, i'm just going to be stressing about it the whole time it's not being done. Then for the second step, I looked at the situation. We were supposed to start writing this on monday last week and today is tuesday and the essay is due on tuesday which is today. Finally, for the last step, I broke down the situation into bitesize chunks and decided that id do two paragraphs yesterday and today. Since I broke it down, it seemed to be a lot easier to get my essay done. However, if I had started on time, I would have only had to do a paragraph a day and be
Since this moment on the very first day of class, I have grown immensely through hard work. In this essay, I will explain what I have learned over the course of this class about myself, and about writing. The first thing I learned about myself is that I can’t help but procrastinate. A few things I tried include treating myself after an assignment was done, remembering the stress-free moment when you finish an essay, and the ten minute technique.
Procrastination has become such a bad habit for me. It is very hard to stop procrastinating everything once you have gotten into the habit of doing it. Once I had a term paper due for my religion class. It was to be ten pages long and we were told to spend a lot of time doing it. Being the procrastinator that I am, I waited to the very last minute to do it. I waited until the night before to do most of it. Needless to say, I was up very late that night. In this class there was always a part of the paper due on a certain date before the final paper was due. Having things due before the final paper is due keeps me on task and keeps me from procrastinating until the day before the paper is due. There was one paper which we had to get sources for a while before the paper was due and it forced me to keep up with the paper, rather than let it go to the last minute. This class has taught me that the earlier you start the more positive your final result will be.
Later on in life I advise you to follow directions or you will be typing or writing this essay as I am. If I did this right the first time I wouldn’t be typing it again for a second time. If you actually think about it, it isn’t that hard to do you just have to use your brain and type some things that make sense. Like I said before follow directions or you will not get anywhere in the
Before taking Mrs. Hawkins’ English 102 class, I used to hate writing; no, I despised it. Along with my hatred for writing, I, as many other college students, am a terrible procrastinator. In my past English classes, my procrastination had affected my grades, especially when it came to papers dealing with multiple steps and drafts, due to the fact writing takes many timely processes to
In the second essay I used the writing process and the outcome was way better. So I learned that so things are there to be learned and that will benefit you in college. Also I learned to be responsible when it comes to grades, turn in assignments due in class, and many other things. I learned this lesson because one day I didn’t turned in an assignment on time and the teacher said that it was a 0 for the day. In high school some teacher, like Ms. Perez, give the students the chance to turn in work the next day, but at that time I realized I was not in high school. So I got my schedule of homework on point and I decided to turn in all my college work on time. The outcome was good grades on assignment and not misunderstood with the instructor. “Be on time if you can’t be there early.” Said by Robin Sharma. Being on time is important to any individual, going into a date, to work and to class. You have to be responsible on be on time wherever they cited you, it is a sign of respect. One day my dad took me to get a new phone, knowing that I had college class. I was in Nuevo Laredo and it took a lot to get me my phone, so I arrived to class late. The students where already taking an exam. I asked Mr. Benavides “what
As Rustu Yesil in "Validity and reliability studies on the scale of the reasons for academic procrastination” that studies shown that individuals who procrastinate has been experiencing problems with performing poorly academically, receiving same of lower grades in school, and having problems with health which can lead to failing any type of tests, dropping out from school, having longer education pathways and even, just plain giving up in life (Yesil). An example of this is when the author found out that she got a bad grade in one of her finals, which lead her to feel depressed all day that is why she felt she could not continue to write her essay, but she eventually did finish since she still wanted to finish it so that she feel accomplished even though she did not get a grade for it due to being
I overcame this challenge by reading and looking up what some of his words meant. Reading my essay I would definitely say I would have taken my time on it instead of kind of rushing into it a few days before it was due.
The computer is on, the coffee maker. is cooking, and I am under a lot of stress. "There isn't a lot of time left," I said. keep telling myself as I look at the blank piece of paper in front of me. " I know I can do it," I keep encouraging myself while my mind generates zero ideas for my essay which is due six hours from now. & nbsp; Everyone I know procrastinates, my friends, relatives, even people in government.
Hello my name is Kasey and today the barrier that will be discussing and how it will help me toward my career goals and what I want to do in my life is, procrastination and stress. The word procrastination means, to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done. Sometimes the word stress comes with procrastination which means, a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from preventing success or very high demanding circumstances/issues. The steps that come with having procrastination and stress is, having a fear of failure and having low energy levels and being stressed out and you might have a lack of studying when doing your school work or working at your job. Procrastination and stress goes hand in
My first writing weakness was deciding what to write about. I had to read the essay topic over and over again to understand what it was asking for. I would worry that I wouldn’t understand the topic correctly. While writing the essay I was scared to get out of topic and write about something else I wasn’t supposed to write about. Another thing that would happen to me was that suddenly my mind would go blank and wouldn’t be able to think about what else I could write about. The essay I liked writing the most this semester was the second essay. I enjoyed making my own planet and how my alien had a quest with all the commercials I saw on the TV. The hardest essay I wrote this semester was the fourth and last essay. I got confused when I was writing the body paragraphs. This writing weakness impacted my life by showing me that I have trouble thinking about how I could write my essays. I think I should start reading books and maybe I could get a few ideas out of those books.
A. H. C. Chu and J. N. Choi, psychologists, distinguished two types of protracting, they discovered that active procrastination has attainable characteristics that lead to positive personal outcomes (Choi and Moran). These positive personal outcomes are a result of waiting at its finest. People with these adequate dilatory skills have probably learned from their deficient habits in the past that may help everyone know that the view of holding off can change. Writing this essay has changed my view on procrastination slightly, as I can see how it can be good for you. With my siblings, my free time is limited.
During the first three days of reflection while I was writing, I found myself to become more stressed. I had all these goals and dreams that I want to accomplish, most of which come threw education. As I was writing about the dreams and my ideal life I realized that I had so much more I needed to do, currently and in the future. The more I thought the more stressed I became- while it was nice to be able to think about the future and reconnect with my goals- it made me more stressed, defeating the purpose of the
I find procrastination as a huge problem, in general for everything. I can sit down one night ready to write my paper, and end up doing it the next morning, because I got distracted by unimportant tasks. I find procrastination robbing me of my time, which affects the quality of my paper. Last semester for World Civ, we had a huge research paper due. We were given the assignment the first day of class, and had plenty of time to do it. Being me, I waited last minute to do the paper, and what I turned in was not my best work. I lacked a few sources, I was way under the page requirements, and my thesis was very weak. Out of my many weaknesses this is a huge one, but it can be improved. As I grow as a writer, I see minor improvements with my work that I used to struggle with in the past.
There have been tons of things that I have learned and been taught in my life, by a number of people such as family, teachers, or even friends on occasion. The things they taught me vary from math and other related subjects to just some truly simple yet meaningful life lessons. However, there is nothing quite as unique, quite as special as a person teaching themselves a life lesson. It really is an amazing accomplishment for a person to teach themselves something. It is not quite as simple as another person teaching them something because it is not just the transferring of information from one person to another. The person instead has to start from scratch and process the information they have in their mind in order to come up with a new thought
It was dark that night, I was nervous that this dreadful day was going to get worse. Sunday, October 23, 1998 I wanted to start writing this to tell about the weird things i’m starting to see in this new neighborhood. Gradually I keep seeing pots and pans on the sink suddenly move to the floor. I would ask my sister but she is out with my mom and dad getting the Halloween costumes. When they got home I didn’t tell them what I saw because i've seen Halloween movies and I have to have dissimulation otherwise the ghost will come out and get me first. October 24, 1998 I think I got a little nervous yesterday with the whole ghost thing. 12:32pm, Went to eat lunch with the family today and I go to get my coat. I heard the words furious and madness,