Procrastination is a problem everyone has experienced at one point. Especially when you are a student like myself. My god has procrastination been the bane to my school existence. Ever since high school for me its been around me like a shadow that you never want to see. But through many life lessons and a little help. Procrastination has evolved from a problem and has now just became a simple excuse.
I use to think through my habits and laziness that procrastination was just another bad habit of mine like biting my nails (which in fact is something I need to stop as well). When ever had a project that was due next week I would plan in my head that I would put aside time to do it early. But then end up just doing it last minute. This would happen constantly and especially during my second semester of advertising. Where I tried so hard first semester had my mind planned out then was going to repeat second semester and just totally dropped the ball. I could even say that with my forth semester now. Even writing this post right now is part of "procrastination". This problem of mine was actually fixed at one point but very short time. It sucks that it was only for a short time, but I do plan for it to be fixed extremely soon.
So what exactly happened during the time my procrastination was fixed? How do I plan to fix it soon you ask? Well first lets talk about what, at least to me procrastination is. Procrastination does not exist to me. It really doesn't. As much as I have just mentioned it about and what it has done to me currently it does not exist AT ALL. I did not know this till a couple a months ago, 4 to be exact as of writing this post. At that time I was in therapy for a different problem I had and one session I had nothing to talk about. So I started mentioning school and this current project I had. My therapist took a huge interest in it for some reason. I kept mentioning procrastination and he said these exact words to me "Michael, procrastination isn't the problem here" and I got confused and was like okay whatever but I said maybe I procrastinate because I work well under pressure, the pressure of an assignment the next day really pushes me because it needs to be completed. Once again he said "Michael, working well under pressure isn't really a thing I believe in". So me being me I instigated this and kinda argued that that is how I am. Again he said "Michael, all this procrastination and working under pressure, its all excuses isn't it?" I thought to myself and said yea it is but at the same time it is because I have these problems. I gave this further thought and got even more confused and was like "Okay, what is there to do?" and this is where at least the important part of the post starts and that is the lesson on "To begin...To begin again".
So what is it? "To begin...To begin again" is a method for conquering this "procrastination". So the premises of this is to basically push yourself. You really need to push yourself for this to work. So you gotta begin your work or project and just do it whether it be for 2 minutes or 5. Then stop and take a break. Then begin it again but you gotta begin after no longer then how long you worked on it from the start. So you worked on it for 5 minutes your break is only 5 minutes and you begin again. You continue with short burst till eventually it finishes or you just go at it for a long time. This method was the one where I got through my "procrastination". I invite you to try this see if it works for you. It helped me at least.
Feeling loopy and sincerely,
Michael
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