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Am I a procrastinator?
Hi! I am girl and I think I am a procrastinator.
I always do my school stuff on the last minute! I always do my homework early in the morning while in class. I also do my assignments the night before and I don't study at home. I always do useless stuff like surfing the web, watching TV or listen to music instead of doing my assignments and homework.
I don't know why but I can't seem to stop this. Right now as I am typing this I have this assignment that is due tomorrow but I didn't even start writing it.
Am I a procrastinator?
Btw this started last year.
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You need to do things the day before get your life organized.Get a planner and plan the things that you need to do the day before. I used to be like this I never did my assignments in time I always left it for the last minute and that did me no good. Always be ahead of time so you don't have to be in a rush. If you do this everyday it will become a habit and it won't get you to no good. Listening to music once in a while is good when your not doing anything but if you have assignments to do it is bad, watching tv makes you loose focus on what you are suppose to do, surfing the web also makes you loose focus. You should make a studying room where you can study and do your homework in peace. Focus on school assignments.
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Yes, the behaviors you describe are classic examples of procrastination.
That being said, lots of people are procrastinators and get along fine in their day to day lives. Some even claim that they function well under the pressure of a looming deadline of sorts. While I'm not sure I'd agree with that, I can't say for sure because I myself am not the procrastinating type. There could be something to it.
The key is, so long as your procrastinating isn't either a.) keeping you from getting things done or b.) having a negative impact on other people, then it's really basically OK.
If either of those become a problem, or you just feel compelled to get out of this habit, I suggest you start off by creating a chart or spreadsheet and make yourself an organizational routine that you force yourself to stick to. Set up designated times for recreation and designated times for schoolwork and whatever else.
Hope that stuff helps.
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So long as you get your dues and demands there on time, in whatever area of life, then there's no real problem. Some people get everything organised and completed in plenty of time. Some complete it at the last moment. It's a bit like companies that make things. They might go for holding big stocks of the materials they need on the site. Or they may use what's called a JIT (Just In Time) strategy. Meaning the materials come in as needed, and they don't need to tie up space holding stock. They're both valid and tried and tested strategies. You sound like a JIT-girl to me! It can put you under a little more stress, true. You have to be really on top of your ordering and be able to rely confidently on your suppliers in the company sense. In your case, you will have to rely on having the ability to meet your deadline and trust that you won't encounter any unexpected snags and hold-ups. Or your deadline will go flashing past you. 'Holding stock' as it were (getting things done well in advance for you) can give you a big safety net. If your JIT strategy works for you, basically keep it but be ready to modify it some cases. Cases where a lat-minute snag could be a disaster. If JIT is constantly causing you problems and putting you under massive pressure you should start work on adopting yourself a new life-strategy. It's a bit difficult at first, but we can train ourselves in this respect, very successfully. In your case, your leisure pusuits (TV, web, music) will have to assigned 'slots' as it were and you'll have to keep them within the time you allocate. No Cheating!! It's a good question. If you're thinking about this you're in a good position to compensate your natural tendency when it's essential that you do. You're more than half-way there! I'm one of the JIT crowd myself a lot of the time, and frankly a bit chaotic. I've only got two speeds. Full on...and full stop! However, I would say in all conscience that I rarely let people down. But sometimes meeting my dues and demands can be a frantic and fraught episode mate!!
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You're the only one who has a chance of knowing what holds you back. We can't really know why you procrastinate.
If you suddenly switched personality a year ago and weren't like this before, then you need to think back to what was going on a year ago, something that you might not equate to starting you down this path but that which might affect your subconscious and make you choose this behavior, most likely occurred a year ago.
So don't even try to make the connection. Just make a list of anything that happened in your life or the lives of those real close to you, a change from how things have always been. That might be enough to explain away why you procrastinate now. I'd be interested to know what those changes are from a year ago. But I still couldn't help you deal with how those changes made you choose procrastination. Since procrastination is not a very productive thing and is more along the lines of a self sabotaging manuever, there has to be a psychological reason why...something that happened a year ago and a professionl counselor is going to be better equipped to help or able to pass you on to someone that can help if you want to be able to stop doing this.
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