Conscious-Self

Throughout high school, I have struggled with these questions. After years of missing deadlines and submitting subpar work, I began to create an environment adverse to procrastination. I realized that by taking on harder work and making more commitments

When I am enjoying a nice event, or have an important task to tackle, procrastination somehow factors in my life. Even though I prepare by organizing for any event or task, somehow, I am asked to do something in between those times for others. The majority of the time I would say “Yes, I will do it,” but end up pushing it aside. Although I am giving advice on how to make it better, I tend to overlook the advice that is given to me. Procrastination in all tends to take up the best and important moments of my life, I just need to have the courage to do the work, so it would not happen again.

As I tried to grasp the concept behind each of the three categories of pushing away daily tasks to a later date, I settled with the last one explained in the article known as a “Decisional Procrastinator.” I am ashamed to say it along with many others, but it is mentally taxing for me to focus in on what I need to do versus what is going around me. I am A.D.D. as well, which does not help at all with my issue, but when I accomplish daily tasks without getting distracted, a sense of accomplishment succumbs me. That feeling is what I strive to earn each day to know that I am changing myself by taking on various tasks that require a lot out of me, which in turn, makes me stronger mentally. I have developed many ways to fight procrastination and I owe it all to everything I have been doing throughout my life to challenge me mentally, physically, and spiritually. This would include activities outside of academics including Boy Scouts, Young Marines, Order of the Arrow, Sea Scouts, and Venture

Not because I can put things off and be proud of my work, but rather that I will always put things off. Usually it is out of not being “into” what I’m supposed to be working on, but it isn’t uncommon for it to be due to a lack of confidence in the work that I am doing- either in the content or the process. Just tonight, I have three more assignments to complete; it isn’t that I didn’t have time last night, it’s that I didn’t make said time. This is what I think many find so frustrating about procrastination. It’s different if you aren’t aware of what you’re doing, but many procrastinators are self-aware, and are at a loss as to how to change

There are numerous factors associated with hunger, satiety and food intake that affect people every day, both internal and external. The most recognizable to me, falling under both the internal and external categories, deal with hunger. While my stomach does do a good job of letting me know when it’s empty and looking for a refill, by way of grumbling, I can admit that I fit in the “customary eating patterns” category – I eat at the same time every day, so when I miss a scheduled mealtime, I can easily convince myself that I’m starving (I tend to have a flair for the dramatic) and begin looking for a meal quickly.

The schedule of reinforcement has many variables, as well as many ways behavior is reinforced. In order to completely create reinforcement schedule the person must understand the behavior that they wish to change. In my case, the behavior that I wish to change is eating habits. In this paper, I will explore the different schedules of reinforcement and how each would work towards changing my behavior, as well as cause weight loss. My eating habits are very easy to explain, I eat when I am hungry which is not very often. This causes my body to store whatever nutrients I do take in, as well as any fat. This way of eating, in addition to medications I have and am taking make it extremely hard to lose any weight.

Procrastination is a form of self-handicapping that can be applied to almost any aspect in one’s life. The most common thread of procrastination is fear; fear of failure, fear of unpleasant or painful experiences, and the fear of missing out. When you fear failure you are prone to avoid involve yourself to begin with. “Out of the fear of failing and looking bad, they would often spend vast amounts of time on a project without making any real progress because at a subconscious level they don’t ‘want to’ finish – a finished project will make them vulnerable for criticism and consequently failure” (Klassen et al. 918) If an procrastinator believes that a task is going to be an undesirable experience then they will feel constrained not to do it. All these fears can lead a person to self-handicap. A lot of times, a person who might both self-handicap and procrastinate, will use drugs and/alcohol to utilize their actions; an example is drinking the night before an exam. This individual, who chooses to go out before the exam, is giving themselves an excuse to why they will not do well on this exam. This is

Procrastination has often been lumped into one broad category, understood as the action of delaying to initiate or complete a task, often done through means of finding distractions or by displaying other avoidant characteristics. One mainstream interpretation distinguishes between “arousal type” procrastinators (those who procrastinate until they experience a sense of euphoria, resulting from approaching deadline pleasures), “the avoiders” (who may lack confidence in their abilities to complete tasks sufficiently and procrastinate due to a fear of failure) along with “decisional procrastinators” (who struggle with the initiation stage) (Marano, 2003). While many reasons for procrastinating exist (disinterest in the task, prioritizing other

Jim has appealed to his boss for months: “I’m ready for more responsibility. I’m ready to be taken more seriously.”

Reaching one’s goals is a step-by-step process. Not many can say they’ve been able to accomplish their goal without taking the steps to get there. For often, to get from one side to the other requires the stepping across of many stones – not simply one large stride. For example, losing weight and sustaining that [that is not the right word], would be impossible without an articulated plan. However, when a healthy nutritional habit and lifestyle is implemented, losing weight becomes inevitable. Fishbach and Choi in their study of planned vs. actual exercise time, found that regardless of the activity, focusing on the result or goal of the activity decreased enjoyment in the activity and decreased the continued pursuit of the activity in the long run. Fishbach and Choi used four different studies, each study with a different activity, to support the idea that “attention to goals promotes behavioral intentions

Procrastination is my expertise and a way of living. I know this is a bad habit but I can’t seem to manage my time and feelings. I wish that I can run away from my responsibilities but they are always chasing me down. When these responsibilities are about to catch up to me, I run in maximum overdrive so that they can stop following me. Procrastinating has gotten me into a lot of problems especially in school. I always wait to the last minute to do any schoolwork and it usually leads to anxiety. Heck, I even waited to the last minute to write this essay. I know it’s bad but I can’t make myself do anything because I lack any kind of motivation. Procrastination does not only affect me but, I see that many of my classmates also have this problem and they are rushing to get work done before it’s due. I see them do their homework one class period before it’s due. Instead of doing work, they are hanging out and having fun without any care in the world. I think that procrastination is a natural human trait because it affects so many people.

The concept of self-actualization, as discussed in the assigned article, is, at its core, a tool through which individuals achieve well-being by reaching their fully-functioning human potential. (Deci, Ryan, & Guay, 2013). Although self-determination theory does not use the specific term “actualization” of human potential, it does suggest that the highest psychological state for an individual is to be “full functioning,” or using all “capacities for experience, connection, and proactivity.” (Deci, et al., 2013, p. 110). As noted in the assigned article, the presence or absence of basic psychological needs impacts the ability of an individual to become “self-actualized.” When the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness are met, an environment is created for an individual to become integrated and autonomously motivated. There are three types of autonomously motivated functioning: intrinsic motivation, fully internalized extrinsic motivation and emotion-motivated behaviors. Ultimately, in order to actualize our human potential, or become “full functioning” we must not only have our basic psychological needs met, but also autonomously regulate our emotions and experience intrinsic or fully internalized motivation within our life activities. (Deci, et al., 2013, p. 126).

Considering all the cons and pros of procrastination, one can get to a conclusion that it should not be eliminated (though it is not possible), but controlled. An individual should be always aware of the consequences of his actions and fight sluggishness in principal areas of life like health and finances to be able to reach a higher standard of living in a modern capitalist

Based on previous analysis of procrastination, the fundamental reason for procrastination lied in the avoidance for negative moods and lacking of timing rewards. In this section, we proposed three fundamental interventions to reduce the procrastination.

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