Ill Do it Tomorrow
last year in eighth grade my brain kind
of works like this
the teacher will announce on monday that
the paper was due on friday
all right all this has been done tonight
the other night you say to myself well
if it’s not due tomorrow then today is
not the day to do it
great mindset right that’s a mentality i
would keep
up until friday morning in the past days
i had written myself about the paper but
had done nothing about it
i ended up starting it 45 minutes before
it was due
i chose the 45 minutes to get a four
paragraph essay
with quests question citations written i
have
four days 96 hours
5 70 minutes
but yeah i chose the 45
i got a 72 on that paper and i see my
straight a’s even when i procrastinate
that was my wake-up call procrastination
isn’t something that just starts
whenever you get your first phone
the greek poet hessoid right around 800
bc
caution not to put your work off till
tomorrow and the day after
when you giggle procrastination by
definition it’s the action of postponing
or delaying something
i would add purposely to that definition
in line pro means forward and
constantary
meets tomorrow if we wait too long to do
our work
we can get it jumbled up this can cause
stress and consequences
people who procrastinate face higher
stress levels than those who don’t
we all get to choose what we do with our
time do i watch the episode on
netflix or do i finish my science lab
now back to my story i got a 72 on that
paper
but i still completed that semester with
an a in my class
why because i had procrastination with a
fear of failure
during that semester i still
procrastinated up until the end
but i knew i wouldn’t let myself get
blown a
was my grade good yes was my c schedule
good
no i could have prevented all this if i
just
did my work ahead of time and turned it
in
before the final due date
now some people might say that they work
better under pressure
but the more time that you leave
yourself to do
in a short period of time the more time
it is for yourself
people who argue that they work better
under pressure you might work better
and be more productive but is it
stressing absolutely worth it
will your product or performance have a
great result
the causes of procrastination have been
explained by doctors
they can range from a low
self-confidence to a lack of structure
as we grow up our parents are the
routine for us in our daily lives
a so-called structure and as we grow
more stuff come into our lives it could
be us before we started playing
or a job we started looking at we start
to steer away from these routines
the problem is these routines have time
incorporated for us to do
our work and to do what we want to do
now i’m not saying that everybody has to
have a routine
personally i just choose to go with the
flow
but as we stay away from these routines
we lose that structure two
accountability coaches have explained
the various different types of
procrastinators
and i’m going to tell you about two of
them they might religiously feel
first we have the actors these people
convince themselves that they work
better under pressure
and they shorten their time to get
things done then we have the people who
depict themselves
as lazy let me tell you something
people who procrastinate are not lazy
i mean planning out how you’re going to
waste your time
takes a lot of energy
i like to take the lessons that i
learned from procrastination
first my teacher left me a paragraph of
notes
which i obviously wasn’t excited about
but i chose to turn my procrastination
around
we should all find motivation to do our
work personally the next semester
i started doing my work earlier and
turning it before the final due date
who knows during those 45 minutes my
computer could have died
or we could have had a fire drill by
turning my work in ahead of time
i learned that i created worse time for
myself
and took stress off my shoulders
i also didn’t think about the final due
date all the time
it was able to enjoy the time i created
for myself
oh and i had more time to sleep
planning out your time to do your work
and to do what you want
can benefit although our lives are
constantly changing every day
some people might benefit from
establishing a daily routine
don’t wait or hesitate don’t wait to
pursue a goal
till next week or even next year
don’t wait to do your paper until 45
minutes before it’s due
i know i’ll never do that again start
your goal early
now i’m going to do all those things
but starting tomorrow thank you