Procrastination

For this weeks blog the topic procrastination. Everybody procrastinates, whether its homework, chores, pretty much if its something you don't want to do you procrastinate. There are many strategies to prevent such a thing as shown in our textbook in CLS 105. However not all these strategies to prevent procrastination work for everyone. The strategy that works best to prevent procrastination depends on you personally. It depends on which one helps you procrastinate the least.

There are many different anti-procrastination strategies/techniques. Just a few that caught my attention are: the 10 Minute Technique, 24 hour rule, Chunking the task, Time waster, Now or pay, and a a few other strategies that i found were not as effective. My two favorite strategies were the 10 Minute Technique, and Chunking the Task.  

The 10 Minute Technique; is a very useful strategy to help when you are avoiding a task that must be completed. However the purpose of this strategy isn't to finish the work you need to complete but to simply get you started. you will need to to repeat this strategy in 10 minute intervals until you can engage yourself and complete it. here is how the 10 minute task works:

Chunking the Task; is a very valuable strategy to at least attempt. If you find it works for you it can be very important and helpful to prevent procrastination. Chunking the Task works only if you perform it the right way. You take an assignment that is just to much to finish in one sitting. You create a schedule over a certain amount of days (in which you finish the assignment on its due date) and divide the assignment up so you complete a manageable amount of it per day. In other words you "Chunk the Task".

When it comes to procrastination it's always easy to give in to it. However these strategies help immensely and hopefully eliminate the desire to procrastinate. The only question is which of these Procrastination studies works best for you personally.