Time Strategies

One of my greatest downfalls is that I am a very big procrastinator. I always say that I will do things at a certain time, and then I keep moving that time frame back until I'm doing it last minute. I'm hoping to work on that this semester, especially in this class. The class schedule that I decided on allows me to do the work for class during days that I do have to worry about other assignment; I allotted my time for this class at the beginning of the week, so that I can get assignments done and work on other classes towards the end of the work week. If I get my work for my other classes done and I have some more free time, I even hope to work ahead and get started on the next weeks assignments so that I can get them done earlier.

Because of my issues with procrastination, I read the two articles about the subject: "How to Beat Procrastination" by Caroline Webb, and "Four Questions to Help You Overcome Procrastination" by Peter Banerjea. Webb and Banerjea had some really good advice on how to get past procrastination. In Webb's article, she tells her readers to publicly commit to doing things (such as assignments), which I did in the previous paragraph of this blog post. She also says to work with yourself by providing incentive for finished work. I do this sometimes. For example, when I am reading a long passage in a textbook, I will lay out some piece of candy (M&M's, Swedish Fish, etc). along the pages of the text I am reading. I get to eat the candy when I make it to that section of the page. Banerjea's article gave me the idea that to make the assignments easier to do, you need to find ways to actually make them less difficult. It seems simple, but I know that it's going to be a lot harder than he makes it out to be. I am going to work on not making excuses for actually doing the work when I'm supposed to.

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