...called procrastinators. In fact, according to one study, “80% to 95% of college students engage in procrastination, approximately 75% consider themselves procrastinators, and almost 50% procrastinate consistently and problematically” (Steel 65). Procrastination happens a lot in college students, and the amount of students who become consistent procrastinators are about half of the total of students. According to Statistic Brain Research Institute, there are 17,487,475 enrolled students in the United States (“College Enrollment Statistics”). It means, there are 8,743,738 students who become consistent procrastinators during this year. Although most of people think that procrastination seems to be unimportant, it can have a bad effect if the students procrastinate frequently. Procrastination is caused by procrastinators’ feelings that dominate the control and task characteristic. However, time management, understanding time, and rewarding themselves can solve the procrastination. Procrastination can be considered a common phenomenon in our life. Everyone procrastinates sometimes during their life, but not everyone is a consistent procrastinator. Procrastinators are the people who only think about the present, ignoring the lessons from the past. They do not think about their future, care more about themselves, and maximize the ease and pleasure of the current moment (Urban). Since everyone has different thought processes, there is huge difference between procrastinators and non-procrastinators...
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...by taking upon one’s self the accountability for time management and maintenance of priorities. Personal responsibility will increase the odds of being successful in all aspects of life above and beyond that of just students. By holding oneself personally responsible, more time is found to do enjoyable hobbies and pastimes while completing the tasks of work, school, and family, while taking pleasure a higher quality of work and pleasure. Time is the key component of being personally responsible. By avoiding procrastination, instant results will be evident through increased quality of work and reduced stress. Creating a simple to do list and setting completion goals is a great place to start. By setting timelines with goals and target, it is important to include breaks and rewards. Larger goals should be created with target set along the way. This will help to achieve these larger goals. Scheduling time and being specific about priorities will give you a clear path to follow. Every project should have a start and a finish date with pivotal milestones throughout. Without targets (milestones) there is the possibility of misinterpreting the timeline. You can get more done if you take regular breaks. You can even use the breaks as mini-rewards. This will help to motivate and make projects more enjoyable. It is important to be rewarded upon completion of these goals and targets. By taking these breaks it allows time to clear thoughts and can give greater perspective...
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...The Procrastination Problem By Susan J. Letham Procrastinators delay until the day after tomorrow what they know they should have done the day before yesterday. What does procrastination look like? We all put off working on unpleasant or tedious tasks from time to time. Washing the car, taking out garbage, cleaning windows, or making stressful phone calls are no one's idea of a fun way to spend time. But where most of us do this only occasionally, procrastinators do it most of the time, and that's where the problems start. Procrastination is a stress factor Procrastination is a behavior that leads to stress, because it makes plans and wishes fail at what should be the point of fulfillment: theater tickets and vacation packages sell out before procrastinators get around to calling. Planes take off, deadlines pass, jobs go to other applicants--the ones who got their resumes in on time. Procrastination has negative effects The Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University in Canada did an online survey. They received 2,700 responses to the question, "To what extent is procrastination having a negative impact on your happiness?" Almost one person in two (46%) said "quite a bit" or "very much," and around one person in five (18%) reported an "extreme negative effect." Procrastination threatens happiness Though procrastination is often trivialized, procrastinators suffer when their careers crash or when they otherwise fail to reach their potential. Long term and wide...
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...Procrastination is the most efficient form of self-sabotage. Procrastinators go out of their way and choose ways to sabotage themselves. Joseph Ferrari and Timothy Pychyl gave reasons as to why people would sabotage their own lives. They gave ten reasons to explain why. Twenty percent of people identify themselves as chronic procrastinators, admitting to their maladaptive lifestyle, admitting to their problem of self-regulation; part of the reason is because we don’t take the problem seriously as a culture, and we don’t call people out on their phony excuses, instead letting them slide by. Procrastination isn’t a problem of time management, as they have the ability to estimate time the same as everyone else. Procrastinator are made, usually as a result of their family, perhaps because of controlling parent(s), inhibiting the child’s ability to make their own decisions and regulate themselves. Self-regulation often plays a part with alcohol too – as they drink more than they intended too, perhaps as an avoidant coping style. Procrastinators lie to themselves, such as “I do best under pressure,” and “I’ll do this tomorrow”; instead they just squander their resources and perform sub-par. Procrastinators actively look for distractions, particularly ones that require minimum commitment; which acts as another avoidant coping style, to distract themselves from regulating their emotions, such as fear of failure. Dr Ferrari identifies that people procrastinate for three main reasons:...
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...D Ajith Reddy Professor Sami Ahmad Khan English-I 10 November 2016 The Active Procrastination Procrastinating is better than spending time stressing out one’s self. The world has long regarded procrastination as a self-handicapping and dysfunctional behaviour but if we look into the books of history, procrastination was not considered a bad thing. The Greeks and Romans considered it as a noble thing and the rulers/Kings were expected to sit around and literally do nothing till something needed their attention. The idea of procrastination being a bad thing developed in the Puritanical era and is still considered the same. In the present study, the authors proposed that not all procrastination behaviours either are harmful or lead to negative...
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...experiencing discomfort (Schraw, Watkins, & Olafson, 2007; Solomon & Rothblum, 1984). A few students use procrastination as an active, strategic behavior (Chu & Choi, 2005; Corkin, Yu, & Lindt, 2011; Steel, 2007); however, the present study uses the most common definition of the term procrastination to refer to the passive, needless delay of work on any academic task. In Zimmerman’s model, procrastination falls in the performance control phase, and has been described as the quintessential failure of self-regulation (Steel, 2007). In general, the academic procrastination behavior is a problem for a number of college or university students. A student procrastinates with regard to starting an assignment, and is unable to devote enough time to complete the assignment. As a result, there is a risk of a decrease in the quality of the assignment or of missing the deadline. This research makes the hypothesis that procrastination is related to the following personality trait factors: (1) the task difficulty (2) the students’ effort (3) enjoyableness (4) the impact and (5) the clarity of understanding. Personality traits have both direct effects...
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...Overcoming Procrastination Edwin Scott GEN/200 02/15/2011 Dawn Ducoty . Who is a procrastinator? In a perfect world, just about everyone at some point in their life has been or will be a procrastinator. As a whole we put things off for several reasons. Some of them are because we just don’t want to do it, think or assume that we don’t have the time to do it or we just don’t like doing it. It’s a part of being human and the purpose of this paper we will try and determine what we can do to overcome being procrastinators. What exactly is procrastination? Don Marquis, an American writer, poet and playwright said, “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday”. You can find this quote at thinkexists.com. I like to think he was saying that we have a tendency of thinking that we have lots of time before something is due. According to “Webster’s college dictionary”, it is to put off taking action, to postpone or delay something that has to be done. This can be very detrimental to one’s private and daily life as long as with their professional settings also. The outline of procrastination can be started in many different manners. We will examine the actions of why one procrastinate, and come up with a course of action to prevent, minimize, or correct the art of procrastination. We will do in a series of steps. Chapters 2-4 of Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen’s Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About. Reading, MA; Addison- Wesley Publishing Company...
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... |determination |often with peers | |What’s My Affect |Somewhat intentionally intense/38 |Laser sharp focus help getting work|Keep emotions in check in tough | |Intensity? | |done |situations | |What’s My Emotional |45 |Self awareness, empathy, motivation|Non | |Intelligence Score? | |and social skills | | |Am I A Deliberate |Yes |Looks at pros and cons and decide |Avoid procrastinators who can slow | |Decision Maker? | |at a fast pace without losing track|me down | | |...
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...PARAPHRASING Activity 1 (pp. 11-12) 1. Paraphrase 1: Not OK; Possible explanation: too close to original wording and sentence structure Paraphrase 2: OK 2. Paraphrase 1: Not OK; Possible explanation: meaning is changed (wording “rich individual countries” is unclear); Paraphrase 2: OK 3. Paraphrase 1: OK; Paraphrase 2: Not OK; Possible explanation: meaning is changed (“terrorize” has a different meaning than “threaten,” and “enslave” has a different meaning than “subject”) Activity 2 (p. 12) Answers will vary. Activity 3 (p. 13) Answers will vary. Activity 4 (p. 13) Answers will vary. Activity 5 (p. 13) Answers will vary. Now You Try (p. 15) 1. In her article “Closing the Gap,” Mary Piper 2. /“My life is richer, too, because of the time that I’ve spent with my elders. Over the past three years I’ve...
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...conscientiousness and its facets of self-control, distractibility, organization, and achievement motivation. These effects prove consistent with temporal motivation theory, an integrative hybrid of expectancy theory and hyperbolic discounting. Continued research into procrastination should not be delayed, especially because its prevalence appears to be growing. Keywords: procrastination, irrational delay, pathological decision making, meta-analysis Procrastination is extremely prevalent. Although virtually all of us have at least dallied with dallying, some have made it a way of life. Estimates indicate that 80%–95% of college students engage in procrastination (Ellis & Knaus, 1977; O’Brien, 2002), approximately 75% consider themselves procrastinators (Potts, 1987), and almost 50% procrastinate consistently and problematically (Day, Mensink, & O’Sullivan, 2000; Haycock, 1993; Micek, 1982; Onwuegbuzie, 2000a; Solomon & Rothblum, 1984). The absolute amount of procrastination is considerable,...
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...finding your faults can be tremendously hard because for most people down deep inside they genuinely don’t want to have something wrong with themselves. However I am extremely confident and secure in myself and with this question asked of me I can answer with absolute truth. So, what areas am I weak in or where do I see that I need the most overall improvement? My continuous improvement plan is to pick out my faults and improve on them. First area I would like to concentrate a correct my tremendously over competitiveness nature in life. Once I have worked hard on get my competitive nature under control I would like give attention to working on my over all management skills, by being a bolder leader and better mentor. The third thing and the biggest thing for me is how to figure out how to stop being a procrastinator. Letting go of the past, this is the last thing I need to do in order to move forward and become a better person and have a brighter future as a leader. In order to continuously improve I feel I must overcome these shortcomings. The true definition of being competitive is involving or determined by rivalry, Business / Commerce sufficiently low in price or high in quality to be successful against commercial rivals, relating to or characterized by an urge to compete competitively . A competitive nature and a strong will is a key concept that I feel has kept...
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...deciding to give the website another shot. Wikipedia described the word “professionalism” as being the status, methods, character or standards expected of a professional or of a professional organization. I should have trusted my initial instinct because Wikipedia’s vague definition wasted about 52 seconds of my time. As I sat staring at my computer frustrated and discouraged, it hit me. A professional always does his or her best to avoid wasting time. When I was a kid, I was nicknamed “The Procrastinator” by my 6th grade teacher. I spent my days dazing off into space, doodling boys names in notebooks and catching up on sleep while my teachers lectured. When my parents would ask me what I had learned that day, I would sit twiddling my thumbs in an effort to change the subject. I was constantly wasting time. As my grade point average dropped drastically and my parents grew more and more frustrated with me, I decided I needed to make a change. I needed to stop wasting so much time and handle my education more professionally. Instead of turning in my assignments late, I started turning them in on time and instead of hitting the snooze button on my alarm clock 4 times before I actually got out of bed, I started waking up early so I could have a healthy breakfast before school. As I did this, my grades started to improve. Not only were my parents proud of me, I was proud of myself. When I was sixteen and...
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... ABPsych 2-2 Introduction to Psychology Psych 125 Academic Procrastination and Academic Achievement Nowadays, procrastination has been a common phenomenon happening in our daily lives. This practice can be observe almost everywhere, in our home, at work, in different fields and especially at school. In this fast-paced era where everything seems to be moving quite rapidly. Some people find it difficult to manage their tasks and so they tend to result to procrastination. This practice can be observe most commonly in schools or universities especially on college students where the student needs to manage their time between tasks. Like studying for multiple tests, completing their assignments, reviewing for future quizzes, completing their term papers and projects and doing extracurricular activities which will determine their academic achievement or academic performance. Yet, students still engage themselves in delaying their tasks. This widespread phenomenon is also known as procrastination. Academic Procrastination According to Solomon and Rothlum (1984) The term procrastination is defined as the act of needlessly delaying tasks to the point of experiencing subjective discomfort or putting off that which is necessary to reach some goal. Furthermore, Popoola (2005) stated that procrastination has an internal and external negative effect. The internal...
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...seeking, many occupations may come to one’s mind. Many will go through great heights to reach their goals, life-long dreams, and accomplish them. Education is the key source for accomplishing those goal. It can be thought of as a prerequisite to greater links to one’s future. While thinking over my own career path, I have come to terms that I have spent majority of my work life in the Human Resource field. What better way to broaden my knowledge by advancing my career into Business Administration? Knowing that I would have to take my education to another level, I sought out a master’s degree in that field to get a better understanding of what I do but at a higher level. When speaking in terms of business, one needs to also think about management. In this passage, the roles of a manager in a functional area of business will be discussed. Though it is evident that all managers’ roles will not be the same, it all depends on what level they are managing. For this discuss, we will discuss the most common fundamental traits that all managers must possess such as leadership, organizational skills, and planning. Leadership A manager is a leader who leads from the front and not the back. Subordinates look to their leader for guidance, reassurance, and knowledge. The manager must be able to provide all of those things. They are counselors in the workplace standing ready to stabilize emotions, solve problems, and guide their staff towards productivity and success. In order for a manager...
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...disappointment of family and friends based on the lack of success. This character trait causes problems in all age groups and in many areas of life including college students and their achievement of educational goals. Unfortunately for me, procrastinating is a characteristic that affects me as a student and has impacted me greatly. There are many ways to sabotage academic success, but a guaranteed way is through procrastination. Procrastinators self-destruct by making choices that hinder their progress and achievement. This characteristic causes students to look for things to distract them and get them off task. Checking email, texting, and scanning social media like Facebook and Twitter are prime examples of distractions that force students to delay important responsibilities. Procrastinators often lie to themselves. Many are convinced that they will feel better about completing an assignment later or that they will work better under pressure. Students often postpone beginning a project until right before its deadline causing them to not have enough time to review it and complete it correctly. Students often lack confidence and have low self-esteem because of their unsuccessful performance in their classes. Health problems may even arise as a result of the stress that is experienced from not turning in...
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