[CHAT] Stopping the Procrastination Cycle
If you’ve ever had to do anything ever in your life which you don’t particularly enjoy, then you probably know the feeling. That test is coming up, or that assignment is due soon – you know you’ve got to get to work! You’re so motivated, so ready, and you’re going to smash this out! You get your work out, your stationary, laptop, water, snacks – everything is ready to go!! You’ve started, and you’re working away at those notes, or starting on that assignment!
Then your phone buzzes – a distraction! – and suddenly your initial eagerness to work goes out the window. You check your phone, and then suddenly it’s three hours later and you’ve spent those three hours on YouTube looking at dogs. At this point it’s almost lunchtime, so you give up and fix yourself a meal. And decide not to acknowledge the work you need to do because you’d rather have a nap, clean the whole house, or re-organise your closet than get back to work (fyi, all things that I’ve done trying to avoid an assignment)
Procrastination isn’t just an excuse for laziness – it’s something that we literally need to work on in order to stop ourselves from falling into that trap. Because our brains can be so loud and demanding about not doing That One Thing, not knowing how to not procrastinate makes it so much harder to get things done on time.
And that’s where this GR Session comes in! Join us at 8pm AEST on Monday the 20th of July, to find out how you can learn to stop being anxiety-riddled messes when an assignment, test or other deadline comes around.
- What work are you most likely to put off? Is it homework? Chores? Work-related stuff?
Agreed with @lokifish the most troublesome anxiety inducing thing is the thing i will avoid the most. To the point where I'll do something i usally don't like doing in order to avoid the new 'worst thing'. It's also generally stuff that my brain isn't wired for. So like i'll neve avoid talking to someone, but if it's a complicated policy document with spread sheets or even worse- version control. I'll basically just not do it until the last minute 😛
What work are you most likely to put off? Is it homework? Chores? Work-related stuff?
At the moment, it is work that has no set deadline but I know it needs to be done sometime this week. For example, writing a cover letter or freeing up the internal storage from my phone.
@ryvb3 That's a good point about deadlines - I think when you've got a set time frame in which to do something it makes it harder to procrastinate
@Ben-RO funny how I'm the opposite. I'll avoid talking to people and will do the complicated boring stuff instead 😛
