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Overcoming Procrastination: Factors & Strategies

Understand perfectionism, inappropriate commitments, and pressure that lead to procrastination. Learn strategies such as reinforcement, reminders, and facing tasks head-on to eliminate procrastination. Stop making excuses and start taking responsibility for your actions today.

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Overcoming Procrastination: Factors & Strategies

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  1. Procrastination

  2. Factors that Aid and Abet Procrastination • Perfectionism: • When students expectations of themselves outpace what they realistically think they can accomplish they put off doing it. • After all why try when you know you can’t succeed. • Inappropriate Commitments: • (e.g., when you have a Physics midterm but you go out the night before the exam to shoot pool).

  3. More Factors • Perceiving the Job as Too Big: • We often procrastinate because the task in front of us seems too monumental for us to handle. • Pressure: • Many people believe that they don't perform their best unless they have the pressure or stress of a deadline.

  4. Procrastination Elimination Strategies • Reinforcement • Rewards • Set reward, do task, receive reward • Reminders • Schedules • To-do lists • Notes to self • Bits and Pieces • Break big assignments into small ones • Do a little bit at a time

  5. More Strategies • Five-Minute Plan • For hardcore procrastinators • Overcome fear of starting • Start a task for five minutes only • Plan to go further later

  6. More Strategies • Face the Music • Recognize that right now you must start • Do what needs to be done regardless of what you want • Accept Responsibility • No more fairy godmother • It’s up to you to get things done • Stop feeling sorry for yourself

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