How procrastination is ruining our lives
by Winfred Odhimabo
You want to succeed in school. You want a have a great future and you want to be the best. These are all the things that will help you in the future, but you have one thing dangling over your head. Procrastination. The act of delaying of putting off tasks until the last minute, or past their deadline. Every high schooler best friend. This simple yet complicating concept has made many scholars fail academically and cause high level of frustration and stress which makes them just quit in school all together, not a great way to end your school career.
Procrastination has the ability to make us feel guilty and frustrated about work that we should’ve done, and many of us procrastinators know that we can sit anywhere with all of our schoolwork ready to be done just for it to be put if off for the next 2 hours, and then another 2 hours because we told ourselves we will start at 5:00pm but then its 5:02pm, so then we put it off for another 2 hours but at that point it late and we are tired and we don’t feel like doing it anymore. Then we lay in bed thinking about all that time we had to do our work but never started, then we start to feel the guilt of doing something you know you should have done and it’s no one else’s fault but ours. Harsh, I know, I don’t like it any more than you do, but its reality, a reality that not only you face, but many other scholars, (“Think you procrastinate now? Wait ’til you get to college!”, 2014) article states that “Eighty-six percent of high school students said they procrastinate on assignments. In college, that number goes up slightly to 88 percent” So don’t worry, you are not alone, but it’s a problem you’re not.
The “Old habits die hard” phrase should be directly related to procrastination. Ask any person, they will tell you that bad habits are extremely hard to break, and that it only takes the right motivation and patience to fully quit. Procrastination is one of the hardest habits to every quit if the right mindset is not there, and there are plenty of reasons for this. One reason is the feeling comfortableness and security students, and adults feel when given an extended period of time to complete a task. Students attitude towards an assignment that is due the next day is totally different from their attitude towards an assignment due in 3 weeks. The comfort students feel of having numerous days complete a task is very compelling to them, which eventually leads to an ongoing learned habit. Isn’t it a relief when you know you have time to putt off stuff and have time for yourself? This is very attractive to many students, and once you find something that you like and attracts you, it is most likely you will keep doing more of it, and the more you do something, the harder it is to stop. This habit is especially dangerous for scholars, as they can carry this habit into adulthood and higher their chances of poorly doing their job. Brenda Nguyen, Piers Steel —- not finished
Laziness, unwilling to work or use energy. The most common misconception od what procrastinators actually are —– not finished
