Procrastination

TECH Entry 6

            This week, the strategies I used to help myself out with my classes were the “Excuse Buster,” “Study Partner,” “Chunking the Task,” and “10-Minute Technique” anti-procrastination strategies in order to help myself get on task and get my work done for REL 205 and CLS 105 ahead of time instead of waiting until the last moment.  The way I employed these four techniques was to use the “Excuse Buster” strategy to tell myself that I do not have time to start playing video games when I got back to my room after Lab; and in it did its job because I did not play any games this afternoon.

Next, I used the “Chunking the Task” strategy as a guide for laying out the steps on how I was going to go about doing each assignment.  I used a slight variation of this strategy however in that instead of including two different options on how I planned to get the work done I simply told myself that ‘failure is not an option’ and listed the steps to take for each task: so I replaced “option 1” with “REL 205” and “option 2” with “CLS 105” and filled in a sequential process to tackle each assignment.

After that I told myself I was going to use the “10-Minute Technique” and just work in ten minute blocks, but in reality I used it to get myself started on the work and after the ten minutes was up I simply kept working.  The final strategy I used was the “Study Partner” strategy to help ensure I stayed on task as I was working; but I used a slight variation of the technique and used the same idea of peer pressure by having my girlfriend from back home in California to Skype with me, and in this way I restricted myself from getting off task.  These four strategies worked extremely well together and enabled me to get my work done quick and cleanly and in a manner best for me since I procrastinate; it also worked well because I need that extra bit of structuring to work efficiently.