The Importance Of Procrastination

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Unfortunately, since the start of New Start, my writing process has not changed. In fact, I would say that my skills in the writing process have sharpened because being a heavy planner and a procrastinator is no easy task. There is a lot of work to be done if I actually want to get work done, and the affects it can have on me can be hindering if I am not careful. For example, being a heavy planner literally means that I have to plan and with planning, comes overanalyzing. Sure, I can plan anywhere and at any time, but it is deciding which course of action that I am going to take in my plan that is the difficult part. I tend to overthink, and overthinking leads to my next skill: procrastinating. Ah procrastination, such a beautiful and deadly …show more content…

Sometimes with procrastination, it may seem like the universe is conspiring against me. As an example, a significant number of dilemmas occurred to me when I was writing my unit 3 paper. Here is what happened: I was recovering from my heavy planning session by taking a nap mid-Thursday day. Once I woke up, I started writing my rough draft and as soon as my computer was done powering up, the Wi-Fi went down: campus wide. That means I couldn’t go to a different location to do my work, not even the library. With this incident I had to push back working for about five hours or so, by the time the school fixed the issue it was 11pm. This incident resulted in starting my rough draft at 11pm, I was nearly complete with it around 2:30 in the morning when the unthinkable happened: my laptop got a bluescreen. The events that happened after that are a blur, I think I was hysterically laughing and crying at the same time because of how cliché the universe was at that time. Because of my state I didn’t go to class the next morning and I turned in my rough draft late, which resulted in my grade lowering. Had I not taken a nap, this problem wouldn’t have

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