Procastination

All of my life as a student, I have had an issue with something we all know as procrastination. I feel like I put off almost everything in school until the last moment possible. I feel that by putting doing an assignment off, I am hurting myself by making myself more stressed out over it. Stressed not only when I have to actually do the assignment or project, but by putting it off, the thought that I will have to do the project at some point in the near future is always in the back of my mind. I feel that if I were to do things when I receive the assignment and not wait until right before I have to turn things in, that would make my life less stressful. Not to mention, whatever it is that I am doing would be a higher quality.

I think learning to use my time more effectively and do things when I get the assignment and not put it off would be very beneficial for my future. In this blog assignment, I think I would be better off writing the blogs before the Sunday that I have to write them. Every week, I put off writing the blog until Sunday, and then on Sunday, I spend a while thinking of a life lesson that I could put into my blog. While it has worked well enough so far, I think that I would be better off finishing the assignment before Sunday and then on Sunday, I would not even have to think about my blog or writing it. I think I will try to do that this next upcoming week’s blog post.
Last year, when I was in Mr Mitchell’s AP U.S. History class, he would assign us to make around 100-150 flash cards over miscellaneous things that have happened or people in history. They would take a few hours to make if you did it in one sitting, I would know. I did it many times. However, towards the end of the year, I began working on the cards about two weeks or so before they were do. That way, I could spend about 10-15 minutes working on them a day, and then I would not have to work on them the last day. I think also working in the little shifts made my work more effective. When I would do them in one sitting, I would get bored and distracted and I would finish less in 15 minutes than I would if I were to only work for a 15 minute increment.
Anyway, now more than ever, I think it would be beneficial for me to learn to not put things off and to complete projects or assignments in a timely manner. Considering that we are all going to be leaving high school in the very near future and that many of us will be going to college I think we all could learn to be more efficient with our time.