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:
- Stop
thinking. Start doing. ...
- 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.”
- Just
take the first step. ...
- Start
with the hardest task of your day. ...
- Just
make a decision. ...
- Face
your fear. ...
- 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.
References:
-Eric
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