Procrastination

Procrastination is so common among people (everywhere) that I would consider one of the most addictive drugs in the world. Though the reason may be different, we all are guilty of procrastination. Unfortunately, and Dr.Blumin alluded to this in our CLS class, we (society) don't view it as being so negatively powerful so there isnt great effort to attempt to eliminate procrastination; But there are tools helpful to bringing awareness and change to our procrastination. This past week I used the Time Wasters method to help bring some attention to it and to just write it down and see what I'm stopping myself from accomplishing. The Time Waster method is a two sided organizer that divides on one side your Time Waster and on the other, what that Time Waster is stopping you from accomplishing. For me, my key Time Wasters were Talking on the phone, listening to music, Online Shopping, and Cleaning Up my room. These things stopped me from accomplishing CLS 105 homework and WT 205 and PHI 107 papers. Here is an example of mine:

This method is useful because it simply brings awareness to what your doing. It serves as a beginning stage to changing procrastination habits and in doing so it allowed me to rethink things I would tend to procrastinate on. Listening to music wasnt necessarily a distractor but playing around with my clothes or shopping online or talking on the phone while I had an assignment due the next morning wasnt really helping my situation. So the Time Wasters method serves as the perfect catalyst to improving one's procrastination habits.