Procrastination is one of my values that I hope I can get rid off… It’s been getting from bad to worse lately and it’s scary. I can spend an entire weekend sleeping and watching TV while staring at the pile of work that I have placed on my desk. At times, I rather watch re-runs of movies rather than getting down to completing my work! Sigh… getting myself to complete the work is one thing, getting myself to start the work is another.

Anyway, went to one of my favourite website [wikipedia.org] and read about Procrastination. Here’s something interesting from the site:

Causes of Procrastination

Psychological: The psychological causes of procrastination vary greatly, but generally surround issues of: low sense of selfworth, anxiety, a self-defeating mentality, or laziness. Procrastinators are also thought to have a different level of conscientiousness, more based on “dreams and wishes” than actions and obligations.

Physiological: Research on the physiological roots of procrastination mostly surround the role of the prefrontal cortex. This area of the brain is responsible for executive brain funtions such as planning, impulse control, attention, and acts as a filter by decreasing distracting stimuli from other brain regions. Damage or low activation in this area can reduce an individual’s ability to filter out distracting stimuli, ultimately resulting in poorer organization, a loss of attention and increased procrastination. This is similar to the prefrontal lobe’s role in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, where underactivation is common.

I think the first cause is perhaps the more dominating reason in my case… more dreams and wishes than actually doing the work. Which is why I had my main quote on the website saying “Strong minds have wills, feeble ones have only wishes.“. Guess I’m somewhere in between now… It’s not that I always procrastinate, but just the stuffs that I don’t really have interest in… e.g. Maths homework and writing really long and boring essays. But that the point isn’t it? You can’t always get what you want and have to deal with things that’s not your will. (I think I’m going nuts eek!, giving excuses and explainations for the same problem… )

Nevertheless, it’s time to try and make a change… getting a time-table drafted as well as setting time slots for studies. Hopefully, I’ll have enough will power to take it on…

Wish me luck! Cheers~!