Friday, April 14, 2017

Procrastination

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It is a simple word that college students know all too well.  By definition it is the action of delaying or postponing something or to a college student, it means finding something better to do.  Now maybe you are one of the few that plans accordingly and gets all of their work completed without any stress.  If that’s the case, then that’s great and this post is not for you.  If you are like the rest of the student population, procrastination plays a major part of your college career.  It is not something planned, however it is something that happens.  You wait until the last minute to start a paper, project, or study for a test because you were checking Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat or using Google Earth to get better acquainted with the country of India, as Tim Urban puts it.  This has happened to everyone and sometimes comes back to haunt us in the last month of the semester.   Maybe it wasn’t your fault because something legitimately came up or there was an emergency, but if that’s not the case here are some tips to help you stop procrastinating in the future:
  1. Stop thinking. Start doing. ...
  2. Don't blow a task out of proportion. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
  3. Just take the first step. ...
  4. Start with the hardest task of your day. ...
  5. Just make a decision. ...
  6. Face your fear. ...
  7. Finish it.

Here is a great Ted Talk by Tim Urban titled Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator.  It is a short video that discusses how a procrastinator thinks and how, on some level we are all procrastinators. 



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-Eric 


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