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"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish." J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Sandra Chard Debra Pretty Student Development Services University of Western Ontario
Overview
Video Introduction Overcoming
Video
Tales of Mere Existence Procrastination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk
responsibilities
You are healthy You believe you have control Choices are informed and not
forced
action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay (Piers Steel)
Put off intentionally the doing of something
affliction, one that occurs in almost every culture and is reported as early as 800 BC. It affects 95% of the population (Ellis & Knaus, 1977) and approximately 20% of those chronically (Harriott & Ferrari, 1996).
Grpel, P., & Steel, P. (2008). A mega-trial investigation of goal setting, interest enhancement, and energy on procrastination. Personality and Individual Differences, 45 (5), 406-411.
Active participation in anything tends to give you a positive attitude toward that activity; inactivity helps acquire an unfavorable attitude.
http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/procrastination.html
Myth #1
I can't function in a messy environment. I can't possibly write this paper until I have cleaned my apartment Challenge: There are no conditions that are necessary in order for you to write, save two: 1) You must have a writing implement (e.g., a keyboard or a pen) and 2) you must have someplace for writing to go, such as into a computer or onto a piece of paper. If, when faced with a writing project, you start piling up prerequisites for all the things you must do before you can possibly start writing, consider whether you might in fact be making excusesin other words, procrastinating. http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/procrastination.html
Myth #2
I know it's time for me to start writing, but I just haven't done enough research yet. I'll spend one more night at the library, and then I'll start writing my paper
Challenge: Truth be told, you will never collect all the information you possibly could for your paper. Better to write a tightly-crafted argument with the information you have NOW, AT THIS VERY MOMENT, than to keep doing research and risk throwing your paper together at the last minute.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/procrastination.html
Myth #3
I do my best work under pressure Challenge: There are lots of other ways to create pressure for yourself, besides waiting until the night before the paper is due to start writing it. You can set a time limit for yourselffor example, "I will write this paragraph in hour"or you can pretend that the paper is a timed essay exam. If you do this a week or two before the paper is due, you'll have a draft in plenty of time to revise and edit it.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/procrastination.html
Myth #4
In order to work on my paper, I must have six uninterrupted hours Challenge: You can and should work on a paper in one hour blocks (or shorter). This will help you break the writing task down into smaller pieces, thereby making it seem more manageable. If you know that you can work on one part of the paper for one hour, then it won't seem so daunting, and you will be less likely to procrastinate.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/procrastination.html
Myth #5
What I write has to be perfect, " AND/OR "I can't write anything until I have a perfect thesis statement/intro Challenge: A first draft (or a second, or a third, or evenegad!the final product) does not have to be perfect. When we write an early draft, we need to turn off our internal critic and just get some words down on the page. The great thing about starting early on a writing project is that it leaves us plenty of time for revision, editing, and proofreading; so, we can set ourselves free to just let our writing flow, without worrying about sentence-level concerns such as grammar, punctuation, and style.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/procrastination.html
this and I lack the necessary skills to perform the task creep into your mind.
letters
A: for what must be done tomorrow B: for what should be done or youd like to get done C: for what can easily be postponed a day or two
Now look at your B items. Place these into either
complete your A tasks as you can, crossing off each one as soon as its done.
Tip: many people write their to-do list for
tomorrows tasks at the end of each day, as this eliminated lying in bed worrying about forgetting something
Video
PROCRASTINATION - Motivation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke6ChHLfLdk
Useful Resources
Procrastination and time management http://www.learningcommons.uoguelph.ca/ Stress management http://www.mindtools.com/smpage.html http://www.cmha.ca/english/coping_with_stress/ Stress and the immune system
http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/stress/a/stressimmune604.htm