Procrastination…
Procrastinate
Pro-cras-ti-nate
- to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- to put off until another day or time; defer; delay.
Procrastination. Procrastination is probably my biggest flaws. It is not that I am lazy and enjoy putting the majority of my tasks and obligations off until the last minute, but it is in more of the sense that I develop a certain degree of anxiety and the way I avoid this anxiety is to put these obligations off for as long as possible. I guess, in a sense I enjoy working under pressure. The majority of assignments that I am assigned usually are not started until a day or two before they are due. It is also very frustrating because once I begin the task that has been assigned I can continue to finish the assignment until it is complete without a problem. It is just starting it that gets me. I then become frustrated because I know that if I would have started it earlier it could have been even better than the material I am turning in at the last minute. You think that I would have learned from this now and begin everything sooner versus putting it off until the last minute, but I still just cannot seem to get it.
It is not that I don’t think that they are important, because as I am getting older school is very important to me; it is just that I am and never have been the best student. School stresses me out almost more than anything else in my life. This may seem hard to believe but it is true. When it comes to my school work I will try to find anything else to do to distract me from starting my school work, whether it is cleaning my room and the whole apartment (including scrubbing everything from top to bottom), running errands around town, to even helping my friends with their school work- just as long as it isn’t mine.
I know I probably sound crazy for constantly putting off my school work, but I just can’t seem to help it!! I hope one day I will finally stop this bad habit, but until then I will still be up until the early hours of the morning trying to finish and perfect assignments until the last minutes before they are due.
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