Procrastination

We have all been there. We have a deadline to finish a given task and for some strange reason the majority of our effort falls on the time near the deadline. For most college student its the last few hours or days before a project is due. Procrastination is virtually impossible to get rid of and there is no reason to. There are however very good ways to get around it to still accomplish the task you intend to accomplish.

I can say I've done very well in terms of accomplishing task I intend to do. I've won city chess championship, taekwondo, while maintaining a 4.0 GPA in high school. Some people around me would say I never procrastinate. Strange thing is I do, and I do procrastinate a lot.

I have received 2 parking tickets this month and I still have not paid them. I have the money yet the idea of throwing away money is difficult for me. I've needed a haircut for the last few weeks and I always intend to but never got around into doing it. My car looks like I've just dig it out from the dirt of how dirty it is yet I still won't take the time to go car wash.

Although it seems I've accomplished a lot, it is because I have only put in the time on things that most people would recognize as quality work. Nobody would give me a trophy for car washing my dirty car, but I can get a nice large sum of scholarship if I maintain a 4.0 GPA.

What I'm trying to say is that procrastination depends on your motivations. If you muster up enough motivation to do something, you will never run across procrastination towards achieving that goal. The great thing about it is that motivations can be manipulated.

Here are the best ways I've found to shape your motivations so that your goal becomes a certainty rather than just an imagination:

• Know what you want clearly: When I was in high school my motivation stems from my distorted imagination of being in a university. I thought if I can get the best grade possible and get into the university of my dreams(UCLA) I will be able to meet the most beautiful college girls from all over the united states thereby increasing my odds of snagging one. Yes, like I said it's a distorted point of view but it was enough to motivate me to work hard every single day in class and receive a 4.0
• Feed your motivation every single day: Once you clearly know what you want it requires nurture to keep it alive. Feeding your motivations could mean repeating to yourself every single day why you want what you want, talking to people embarking in the same journey, and many other things, it's all a matter of creativity.
• Let your motivations evolve: It's very rare that your initial motivations will be the same throughout your journey of accomplishing your goals, so it's important to realize that it will change at some point. There is a trap in that situation where we sometimes give up our motivations when we realize how different it has become from our initial. To really go all the way, you must freely open up to your motivations and grow with it.
• Regularly obtain feedback: Math is very difficult to learn if you have no idea what the answer is. You can do a million problem sets but if you have no sure way of checking your answer is right then it does little on your mastery of the subject which in turn withers your motivations. So it's important to be able to gauge where you stand which in turn will add more motivation for you to get past it.

There is no need to get rid of procrastination, sometimes it's necessary. Procrastination gives us the chance to prioritize what is beneficial in our lives and what is not. It's important to be lazy at some things. It's all just a matter of beating procrastination with enormous amount of motivation in areas of our lives that is beneficial and letting procrastination take over in areas that is less beneficial.