The Procrastination Blog

The good folks at Long Beach City College have put together a very helpful page for students about procrastination.

It has good pointers about the causes of this bad habit and how to stop procrastinating. But what makes this sites very helpful if you’re at school, are the videos by fellow students that they link to. These cover topics such as:

• Task seems too difficult
• Lack of motivation
• Afraid of failure
• Don’t see the point

And many more!

Steve Bressert, Ph.D. has written a very good article with simple and practical tips to beat procrastination.

He first asks you to define what type of procrastinator you are:

1. A constructive procrastinator; or
2. A destructive procrastinator; or
3. A constructive/destructive procrastinator.

Then he helps you identify your procrastination symptoms, and demonstrates how to determine the underlying cause of of your habit.

Lastly, Dr. Bressert shows how to develop an effective strategy against procrastination based on your own personal circumstances.

Alot of people who procrastinate are often overwhelmed at the size of certain tasks, or with getting certain things done, because it just seems like too much work, or that it’ll never be done in time.

You need to make these tasks seem doable.

To make tasks seem doable, and easy enough for you to get done, split tasks up into smaller tasks. You can then work on each of the smaller individual tasks until the whole task at hand is complete.

There are TWO types of Procrastinators: Which one are you?

1. The Relaxed Procrastinator:

If you’re the relaxed kind of procrastinator, you don’t procrastinate because you’re worried you won’t be able to get it done in time, or worried that you won’t be able to get it done at all, but you instead avoid certain tasks completely and just don’t care.

You like to focus on things that you enjoy. For example: You avoid doing homework, and just go out with friends and watch a movie, not giving a hoot about your homework.