Procrastination

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today” - Abraham Lincoln

Coming home from school at 3:30 PM, you go straight to your bed with your phone. You think to yourself ‘I’ll start my homework in an hour”.

Then because “you’ve had a long day” you would take a 20 minute nap which tends to turn into 2 hours after a few snoozes.

How many times do you actually get out of your bed “in an hour”?

More often than not, you’ll delay your school homework or chores until last minute or put them off until the day after. Tasks that needs to be finished piles up and your stress level skyrockets.

Trust me, I’ve been there.

I would think to myself ‘Even if I started at 10 PM, I still have until 7 AM to finish everything before I get ready for school. So that’s 9 hours in total I can study!”

No, this doesn’t work. Please don’t try this at home.

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Now, Here are the four most common types of procrastinations.

1. Anxious procrastination

“Procrastination is a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.” - Neil Fiore

Fiore suggested that procrastinators make unrealistic goals that are impossible to be accomplished in a given time, leaving no room for fun activities.

⇢ How to overcome anxious procrastination?

“Unschedule” your plans.

Basically, before scheduling your more difficult tasks, schedule in your fun activities first!

This way, you can have breaks in between your studies and prevents overscheduling!

1. Fun procrastination

Exactly as the title says—doing everything “fun” to delay that one difficult task you avoid.

⇢ How to overcome fun procrastination?

If you can’t bring yourself to do the task you’ve been avoiding, do smaller assignments first—better than nothing, right?

Then, divide a big task into smaller sections so the task seems easier to tackle.

1. “Plenty of time” procrastination

I still have three months to finish this project. I should have plenty of time, so I’ll just do it later.

The project will most likely be unchecked on your to-do list a week before the deadline.

⇢ How to overcome “plenty of time” procrastination?

Set deadlines and tell the people around you! This will allow you to be committed and give you the motivation to finish the tasks on time.

1. Perfectionist procrastination

Perfectionist procrastinators often are overwhelmed by their tasks needing to be perfect that they have difficulty starting the task.

⇢ How to overcome perfectionist procrastination?

According to studies, procrastination can be a good thing for a perfectionist—of course, to an extent.

Realizing that not everything has to be perfect is important for overcoming perfectionism :)

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You can do it!

Good luck on your journey to overcome procrastination :)