1. ANDRES GARCIA
Why do people Procrastinate?
- I think that people procrastinate because they don’t have the ability to prioritize their
assignments or anything that they need to have done on time. Those who cannot view
the tasks at hand and place them into different categories based on their level of
importance sometimes have difficulty getting anything done because they are
constantly switching from one task to another or trying to decide what to do next.
I consider myself a low percentage as a procrastinator; even though that
sometimes I do my work on time with no need to rush things, there are always some
things new approaching the window to fall on that hole of working under pressure. Its
one of the worst feelings ever knowing that you have had enough time to prepare and do
whatever you were supposed to do by a certain time and just wait for the last day to have
it done. That has happened to me. Obviously, with no much time I realized that I
wouldn’t be able to make the greatest grade in the whole class so I had to start changing
that bad habit. With so much sacrifice and effort I proposed my self to be totally opposite
to be a “procrastinator” and stop thinking that I was rewarded positively for my poor
behavior.
I try to do things the best prior time I can; that way I will do whatever is on my
hands to invest the best quality time and effort. There is a saying that says “don’t leave
for tomorrow what you can do today.” I know for some people is kind of hard to have
everything ready, like been on time to a certain appointment, have all your paper work
ready to fax it the next day, do the college projects before the date line, having your
agenda well done, I mean organized, with all the “to-do list” set up the right way, and if I
continue I know that there is plenty of things I could think of and I will never finish to
address them because if you leave for tomorrow what you can do today; for sure, you
might be late. One of the suggestions that I could give is to put an alarm daily for
everything you have to do, that’s what I do. I put the alarm on my cell phone’s calendar
with almost every specific assignment, appointment, or project that I have to do before
time so it remembers me because with so many things we tend to forget our priorities.