Blog Assignment Imagine that you are the author of a blog. Using the Blackboard Blog Tool, discuss in your blog post a behavior modification you would like to establish through the utilization of a...

Overcoming Procrastination- a long tedious journey
Who doesn’t delay a work or two every once in a while? We delay work because we have something else more important to do, or because some other work comes along. This sort of delay is not harmful and is sometimes even a necessity. Procrastination is different from this type of delay. Procrastination occurs when we put off work because we don’t feel like doing it as it may seem boring or overwhelming. There is no genuine need to delay the work. Procrastination eventually leads to loss of time as well as development of stress. There are no advantages of procrastination. Procrastination is a self-defeating act that causes a needless delay in action at a time when nothing prevents us from doing the action except own laziness and reluctance. People practice procrastination for different reasons. Academic procrastination is quite common amongst students. However, behavioural procrastination is different in that it makes a person procrastinate in everything as a form of habit (Klingsieck, 2013).
I have been struggling with procrastination for a while now. I tend to delay a lot of work that I know can be done immediately while knowing that doing it immediately will be rewarding. However, I choose not to do it unless it becomes urgent and this reduces both the quality of my work as well as wrecks my brain nerves due to last moment anxiety. I have been trying to get rid of this behaviour but it keeps coming back, especially when I am tasked...