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Eh, I bet I can wake up really early tomorrow and finish my essay then

Crunch Punch

Crunch Punch

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    https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html

    I was reading that instead of revising a few mintues ago and I was amazed by how much of it rang true for me. I've always been a massive procrastinator; the number of times I've pushed work to a later date is astounding. I always believed that while I may not be "feeling it" then, come the time I had set myself I would be much more ready for the task in hand, more motivated, more willing. It was a lie and an excuse that I would have told myself million times for a million other tasks before, but it would still be good enough for me to instead do some other random shit, completely ignoring what I was really supposed to be doing at the time.

    Procrastinating has never helped me. It has always made me late for a deadline, late for homework, late for my job, late for everything. Whenever I end up not doing anything about the task in hand when I go to bed I would just lie there for hours, thinking about why I didn't do what I didn't do. There would be self-loathing, anger, confusion. But the worst emotion I feel would be regret. Regret that even after the multiple times I had told myself before I would never ever succumb to procrastinating ever again I still did. Regret about maybe what my teacher would think of me after I tell him that no, I still haven't finished the coursework in time, even two weeks after the one week extension he gave me after the original deadline. Regret about how me choosing to procrastinate has made me miss so many great opportunities that had been handed to me in a silver platter before. I don't exactly have that many deep regrets in my short life so far, but nearly all of them stem from me not giving a shit and doing nothing when it mattered. Then I would sleep, wake up, forget everything about what I thought of last night and the vicious cycle would repeat.

    I don't really know what this thread is supposed to be. It certainly feels a lot more like a blog post right now but I wanted more of a discussion on the topic of procrastination, and maybe for others to share their own stories if they wanted to, that would be cool. Trust me, real procrastinators know they are procrastinators, and they know that this is a habit as hard to kick as maybe smoking for a guy who's been smoking twenty cigs a day for ten years. I've had few rare moments of runs when I've been absolutely driven and focused on my goal and what I needed to, and those moments I say are the moments which have brought any kind of success I've had so far, which only leads me to think sometimes of how much I could achieve if I could just do what needs to be done when it's supposed to be done.

    Tl;dr - do you think you suffer from procrastination? If you think you do, how much would you say has it affected your life?


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    guilty of this alot, about 50% of all work wuz procrastonation during highschool, got in2 collage, and accualy forgot about alot of stuff cuz the routine felt wierd, i wuz still not used 2 it by the end of the 1st semester, i failed out :< 90% of collage work wuz procrastonation
     
    I don't think that I suffer from it, I know that I suffer from it. X) I might have gotten a little bit better in recent years? Maybe, not entirely sure of that yet. I know I still tend to put things off if I can. But back in school it got to the point where I didn't even start some papers until the morning of the day they were due, which led to some interesting early-morning panic and I'm sure if they were longer papers I would have failed so much harder on them than I already did. I mean, I passed them, just that I probably would have actually failed them. Although one of them was for an art history class, and somehow I did well on that and it's just like stop enabling me ahhhh.

    Although worse was when I didn't even have the panic wave to ride to semi-victory right before a deadline, but instead just gave up when I realized I might not have as much time left as I thought and just went "screw it, whatever happens happens." Only happened a handful of times, but it still happened. What makes it worse is that once things were over, about the only thing I felt was apathy. And maybe some relief that I didn't have to worry as much since the moment was gone. That was it.

    I probably could have done so much better then if I hadn't done things like that. Oh well.
     
    I do, and the effect of it really just depends. Most of the time I can get stuff done at the last minute. But sometimes I just get so bored with it and can't be bothered. It hasn't affected my life too much. A good couple handfuls of all nighters to get a project done that I've had a month to work on but haven't done anything with until the day before. But other than that it's not been too detrimental to my education. That's just other stupid decisions.
     
    I always procrastinate to the day before I should finish, and rush it then. I hasn't negatively affected me yet, as my grades for those papers has always been a 7 or higher. The only homework I haven't procastinated was my final paper this year I had to do that counted as a final. That was a group project, and I didn't want to let down the girl I worked with by having to rush everything in the last moment.
     
    i think there's been a thread for this before so like i have said before, i do not procrastinate. i do everything right away.
     
    story of my life. the thing is, i know it's bad to procrastinate but i haven't had any bad outcomes as a result of my procrastination which kinda gives me more reason to procrastinate. last year i waited until the last minute to work on a seven page autobiography that counted as three test grades, and turned it in late. it murdered my grade for the time being, but i still walked out of that class with an A.
     
    honey said:
    story of my life. the thing is, i know it's bad to procrastinate but i haven't had any bad outcomes as a result of my procrastination which kinda gives me more reason to procrastinate. last year i waited until the last minute to work on a seven page autobiography that counted as three test grades, and turned it in late. it murdered my grade for the time being, but i still walked out of that class with an A.
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    You had to write a 7 page autobiography? How the hell do you fill such a thing? I had to write 2 page ones, and that was really difficult already.
     
    i procrastinate school work, but anything else I tend to do right away or soon enough

    hasn't done much to me but give me minor waves of stress for about 24 hours
     
    Ice said:
    You had to write a 7 page autobiography? How the hell do you fill such a thing? I had to write 2 page ones, and that was really difficult already.
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    EXACTLY omg. i tried to dig up the rubric she gave us but i couldn't find it, oddly enough i couldn't even find the paper itself. even though every page had it's own theme i felt like i hadn't accomplished enough to fill all seven pages.
     
    I procrastinate often. Even when I know Ivshould be doing my work, I'll just go "Oh I got enough time to finish it", and then I put it off until the final few minutes. I did this in school and in college. It's actually really bad for me because during my previous college semester I had so much important work to do so that I could pass my classes that I literally waited until the final possible minutes to finish all of it and I was a little bit late turning them all in.
     
    All of the time. I procrastinate a lot with my writing duties. I usually spend more time playing games then writing. I hate forcing myself to do it because it triggers my anxiety as well. So, I end up not doing it since I feel that playing games or doing other things is more important. XD
     
    I admittedly procrastinate with nearly everything. Right now I have an application to write for a roleplay, I need to call work so I know when to go in tomorrow (I have a feeling I already know, though), aaand I'm sure there is one or two other things I should be doing but I'm not. It's something that at times I would try to change and.... end up procrastinting that.

    School work was the worst though. I mean, I'll get the application done because I really want to get into the roleplay. I'll obviously call work soon because I would like to keep my job haha. But with school work well.... let's just say that the site pretty much rings true. The worst part was often I would tell myself I would do it in the morning before school but then get up really late because I am not a morning person.
     
    i procrastinated a lot before this year. however i changed my way and it has relieved so much stress legit like you guys should try it
     
    i'm really an odd case because while i procrastinate on pretty much everything, it's almost a conscious choice. i tell myself "i'll do it in a few minutes" or "after this", and then i don't until THE very last minute, but i end up putting together something that passes as if i'd done it days in advance. i'm not sure if it's just my inability to accept less than at least near-perfection or what, but i can fly under the radar pretty well with my tattered work ethic.
     
    Am I the only one that doesnt procrastinate? Not all the time, but I am generally pretty good about not procrastinating. I want to do that now because I have a speech due tomorrow, but I can't. :/
     
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