You can change this by trying to make your task more fun, so you can complete it. Stay organized and focused. Buy a calendar and write in it to mark deadlines and how far along you should be in an assignment. Write a to do list with tasks you need to get done. Staying organized will help reduce stress. If you have nothing written down, you will just be lost and stressed because you do not know when anything is due and that will affect your grades in your classes. Think about the consequences of procrastinating. Do you want that extra hour of sleep? A good attitude for the day? A good grade? Think about what you truly want and tell yourself to get it done. A positive mindset will help in many situations. As Chris Bailey (2017), writer of 5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination states, “It’s easier to keep going with a task after you’ve overcome the initial hump of starting it in the first place. That’s because the tasks that induce procrastination are rarely as bad as we think. Getting started on something forces a subconscious reappraisal of that work, where we might find that the actual task sets off fewer triggers than we originally
You can change this by trying to make your task more fun, so you can complete it. Stay organized and focused. Buy a calendar and write in it to mark deadlines and how far along you should be in an assignment. Write a to do list with tasks you need to get done. Staying organized will help reduce stress. If you have nothing written down, you will just be lost and stressed because you do not know when anything is due and that will affect your grades in your classes. Think about the consequences of procrastinating. Do you want that extra hour of sleep? A good attitude for the day? A good grade? Think about what you truly want and tell yourself to get it done. A positive mindset will help in many situations. As Chris Bailey (2017), writer of 5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination states, “It’s easier to keep going with a task after you’ve overcome the initial hump of starting it in the first place. That’s because the tasks that induce procrastination are rarely as bad as we think. Getting started on something forces a subconscious reappraisal of that work, where we might find that the actual task sets off fewer triggers than we originally