We have difficulty not to spend every meeting talking about parties and having coffee (G8, B9).
Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task, which needs to be accomplished.1) This is a ‘disease’ everybody is victim to. William Knaus estimated that 90% of college students procrastinate. Of these students, 25% are chronic procrastinators and they are usually the ones who end up dropping out of college.2)
Why do students procrastinate?
• Poor Time Management; procrastination means not managing time wisely. You may be uncertain of your priorities, goals and objectives. You may also be overwhelmed with the task.
• Difficulty Concentrating; when you sit at your desk you find yourself daydreaming, staring into space, looking at pictures of your boyfriend/girlfriend, etc., instead of doing the task. Your environment is distracting and noisy. You keep running back and forth for equipment such as pencils or a dictionary etc.
• Finding the task boring.
• Personal problems; for example, financial difficulties, problems with your boyfriend/girlfriend, etc.
• Fear and Anxiety; you may be overwhelmed with the task and afraid of getting a failing grade. As a result, you spend a great deal of time worrying about your upcoming exams, papers and projects, rather than completing them.
• Negative Beliefs such as; "I cannot succeed in anything" and "I lack the necessary skills to perform this”.
• Unrealistic Expectations and Perfectionism; you may believe that you MUST read everything ever written on a subject before you can begin to write your paper or you may think that you haven't done the best you possibly could do. Fear of Failure; you may think that if you don't get an 'A', you are failure. Or that if you fail an exam, you, as a person, are a failure, rather than that you are a perfectly ok person who has failed an exam 4).
