I’ll Do It Tomorrow
Procrastination is a dangerous and seemingly unbreakable habit. The good news is that procrastination is a habit that can be broken or at least better dealt with. Procrastination is a detrimental habit because you are putting off tasks that need to be done and are instead doing something else.Most of the time the task you are doing in the place of what you’re actually supposed to be doing doesn’t even matter. Procrastinating may seem like “not that big of a deal” but in reality, procrastinating is a major problem.
Procrastination can cost you significant things such as your health, job, grades, or relationships. In the chapter, there was the example with Raymond, a high powered attorney. Raymond would put off returning …show more content…
A lot of people procrastinate so I didn’t think it was a bad thing to do. This chapter really opened my eyes to the dangers and disadvantages that procrastination brings on. In society procrastination seems to be an everyday thing. It’s depicted in films and TV shows, people around you such as friends or family do it, so you start to think that putting something off is harmless and you’ll just ‘Get to it later.” ‘I’ll Do It Tomorrow’ explains in depth just how harmful procrastination is. I had never thought of procrastination as something that can make you lose your job or even destroy relationships.
After reading this chapter, procrastinating any task, no matter how troublesome or minute, is the last thing I want to do. The paragraph in the chapter about how procrastination can endanger health was alarming, especially because sometimes I’ll put off things like doctor’s appointments. Though high cholesterol was being discussed in the chapter, this applies to any health issues. When I read that paragraph it really made me think about just how injurious it can be to put off something as easy as a doctor’s appointment. That high cholesterol could have been something more deadly like …show more content…
There are so many things to be done at times that you get overwhelmed and decide to do something tomorrow and tomorrow somehow turns into next week. I want to be able to stop procrastinating and just do whatever it is that I have to do. I’m going to follow the advice of Peter Gollwitzer and have implementation intentions. Setting a time and place to do a task seems more advantageous than just saying you’re going to do something. When you have a set place and time you’ll be more likely to do the task because you don’t have the time to say “I can just do this later because of…” Creating a schedule also seems helpful. If more students scheduled their time for homework and/or clubs and sports, it would be less stressful to juggle these
Procrastination is a dangerous and seemingly unbreakable habit. The good news is that procrastination is a habit that can be broken or at least better dealt with. Procrastination is a detrimental habit because you are putting off tasks that need to be done and are instead doing something else.Most of the time the task you are doing in the place of what you’re actually supposed to be doing doesn’t even matter. Procrastinating may seem like “not that big of a deal” but in reality, procrastinating is a major problem.
Procrastination can cost you significant things such as your health, job, grades, or relationships. In the chapter, there was the example with Raymond, a high powered attorney. Raymond would put off returning …show more content…
A lot of people procrastinate so I didn’t think it was a bad thing to do. This chapter really opened my eyes to the dangers and disadvantages that procrastination brings on. In society procrastination seems to be an everyday thing. It’s depicted in films and TV shows, people around you such as friends or family do it, so you start to think that putting something off is harmless and you’ll just ‘Get to it later.” ‘I’ll Do It Tomorrow’ explains in depth just how harmful procrastination is. I had never thought of procrastination as something that can make you lose your job or even destroy relationships.
After reading this chapter, procrastinating any task, no matter how troublesome or minute, is the last thing I want to do. The paragraph in the chapter about how procrastination can endanger health was alarming, especially because sometimes I’ll put off things like doctor’s appointments. Though high cholesterol was being discussed in the chapter, this applies to any health issues. When I read that paragraph it really made me think about just how injurious it can be to put off something as easy as a doctor’s appointment. That high cholesterol could have been something more deadly like …show more content…
There are so many things to be done at times that you get overwhelmed and decide to do something tomorrow and tomorrow somehow turns into next week. I want to be able to stop procrastinating and just do whatever it is that I have to do. I’m going to follow the advice of Peter Gollwitzer and have implementation intentions. Setting a time and place to do a task seems more advantageous than just saying you’re going to do something. When you have a set place and time you’ll be more likely to do the task because you don’t have the time to say “I can just do this later because of…” Creating a schedule also seems helpful. If more students scheduled their time for homework and/or clubs and sports, it would be less stressful to juggle these