Who doesn't procrastinate in life sometimes?

Hello everyone!

This week’s challenge is Procrastination!!!!

Who doesn’t like to procrastinate? Everyone does it probably even teachers and professors. I wouldn’t deny it.

I try to procrastinate when I can but sometimes it just happens and I’ll end up doing homework in a hurry that’s due for the next day. Or maybe even study or review for a quiz or an exam.

So, to help both you and I, let’s take a look at some of the anti-procrastination strategies found in Dr. Blumin’s book “It’s All About Choices” page 246.

The first one I tried is called Time Waster.

The point of this strategy is to figure out the activities that distract you from doing your studying or homework.

Procrastination is about consequences!

Simply, identify the time wasters and the task that was being avoided.

These are my time wasters:

My Time Wasters --------------------------Task I was avoiding

Wasting time on Facebook Reading for PSC 121 or ETS 107

Socializing Homework like the TECH assignment

Over-sleeping Reading for ETS 107

Texting friends Reading for PSC 121

Interruptions (dorm mates) No task avoided

So, as you can tell I always try to avoid reading. Then at last minute I start to read and I don’t finish. This I have to fix maybe by trying out the 10-Minute Technique.

As soon as I started reading the book “Black Dog of Fate” for this Wednesday for my ETS 107 course I timed myself 10 minutes. After those 10 minutes ended I put another 10 minutes until I got to the page 50 of the book. That was last night and I’m already in part II of the book. To refresh my memory at the end of each chapter I wrote down a summary. This 10-Minute Technique has been most helpful in terms of being able to finish my assignments on time and faster.

Summary in terms of LAME:

Learner- Visual learner so I like things organized and nicely visually represented. You can tell by the colors I used in the first strategy. The 10-minute technique is a nice way to stay organized with time.

Action- Well what I’ve been doing with these strategies, as I mentioned before.

Materials- The first strategy allowed my eyes to see what’s been stopping me from doing my work and the second strategy has helped me take on this challenge of reading so much.

Evaluation- With the first strategy I already know what’s going on that’s wrong which procrastinating about reading and I’ve figured it out that if I used the 10-Minute Technique it will most definitely help me! J

Hope you all enjoyed and try these two new strategies!

Take care and have a great week and Thanksgiving break (going home in 4 days back to Puerto Rico!!!),

Gil