Procrastination Letter

Dear A Procrastinator,

I understand your problem of procrastinating because I suffer from the same issue. In high school, I would always wait around until the last second to study for a test or work on a project. I would always get the task done, but I was constantly worried about the upcoming due date and my sleep always suffered. I told myself when I went to college, I would work harder to not procrastinate. Unfortunately, during the fall of my freshman year as much as I told myself to study, I again found myself procrastinating. I would have the syllabus the first day of class and knew when a test or paper would be due and just couldn’t get myself motivated to get started. I couldn’t sleep and the more I would stress about it the more I couldn’t concentrate a different class. I struggled through my fall semester and ended up failing one of my classes because I didn’t finish one of the papers. I became depressed over Christmas Break and felt like a failure because I had let myself and my parents down. I received a letter from

Procrastination is linked to a very deep level to several different psychological issues: perfectionism, a fear of being judged and a desire to be in control. Luckily, procrastinators are rarely horrible procrastinators in all areas of their lives. They may be great at making travel arrangements or at paying their bills, but miserable at getting a paper written. People basically procrastinate in the areas of their life where they may have self doubt- or with things they simply don’t want to do. Do you feel that your procrastination is due to lack of self-doubt? Of course things really don’t go away and then they have to live with an underlying anxiety about getting the job completed at the last minute. The good news is that once you understand why you procrastinate, you can start to cure the problem. Many times the roots of procrastination are related to performance issues and