My Mindset Essay

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A word that has brought me nothing but misery since I entered high school and continues to follow me to this day. This one word dictates the tempo of my life. It determines whether I get to have fun or whether I should stress about the impending hour of my doom. That one word is procrastination. In the dictionary it means the act or habit of putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention, but to me it seems so much more. I don’t know what it is but I like to have fun now and homework and any kind of work ruins that mindset. It tells me to delay fun for work and that usually does not work out for me. Instead of procrastinating my enjoyable, I tend to procrastinate the work that needs to be done. My mindset is that I need to have some sort of entertainment …show more content…

I start to have fun and I never want to stop but who really does? Why waste your time trying to do your homework on time when you can do it last minute? You still get the work done, it 's just that you spent that last few days stressing about it and how you should start it soon, but you never do. That mindset is a killer for me. It what has caused me to be who I am right now, a lazy student just trying to get by. But that’s not what I want to do, it definitely won’t help me out in the future but that is all thanks to procrastination. It doesn’t end with me at all. Countless before and after me have face the horrors of procrastination. They all face the five stages of loss and grief. First, they tell themselves that they don’t need to start the homework anytime soon, infact they have a week or more before they should even start. That right there is denial, they deny the fact that need that time to actually get the work done and to get it done well. Then they

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