P is avoiding doing something P is not being able to get started P is reading a book
Is watching the televisions, is being unable to stop watching television. Is finding the most difficult way of doing something Is jumping from one idea to another, to another It’s trying to avoid the things inevitable（不可避免的）
P is not able to decide what way to do something, it’s over complicating things, it’s being afraid to finish sth, it’s unknown when to finish something and how to finish sth.
Procrastination is a very common phenomenon. The purpose of the presentation today is to make a brief introduction of procrastination, and encourage everyone to get rid of this bad habit.
Part1 Background (Phenomena & Analysis) Phenomena
Have you always been hard to go to bed in the evening, while reluctant to wake up in the morning? Have you ever stayed up late playing computer games, watching films and series, shopping online, surfing your Weibo, even you know there’s just a few days comes the deadline of your papers? Not until the last minute will you get started to work.
These phenomena show a common feature——putting off essential task until a later time. Such people have a common name——delaying disease patients, or we can call them patients with procrastination. The steps of procrastination
False security: pretend to be safety, still enough time left Start to be lazy, I will do it tomorrow Find a lot of excuses to get rid of the task
Self-deception: I am able to finish the task right before the deadline, just need to all nighters.
Crisis: How could I finish such a hard job in such a short time???? You will repeat the steps above and then drop into a vicious circle.
Analysis (we collect some survey data)
The result of an online survey of psychological made by China Youth Daily shows that in 2250 respondents, 72.8% of people admitted that they are suffering from procrastination. Of which 14.0% feel that their symptom of procrastination “very clear”, 41.5% people think “obvious”, only 7.3% of them feel that they do not have delay disease.
The US and Canada statistics show 70% of college students have academic procrastination condition, also 20% ordinary people have daily postponed behavior. According to these data, there are nearly 1 billion people suffer from procrastination in the world.
Part2 Definition & Influence Definition:
Procrastination refers to a postponed behavior which is unnecessary and to some point, harmful. If it is getting worse，it may cause mental illness and self-abasement.（自卑） Generally speaking, procrastination is an act of putting off things until a later time. Currently the word is not a strictly psychological or medical terminology, but the phenomenon of postpone has become to be an important research topic in the management and psychology. Influences：
1. Lack of confidence. To some people, every task is not up to the highest ability that they have, the ability for self-assessment will become more lower, even worse they will become self-abasement.
2. I am busy. I don’t have it done because I’ve been busy, use this as an excuse for P. 3. Stubborn. Your urge on me cut no ice, I will be ready to start doing naturally. 4. Pressure. Every day a lot of pressure has to be faced so that something has to be dragged down.
All these characteristics will bring you some negative influences: 1、Stress & Anxiety increase your pressure and make you easily worry
2、Impede your ability to achieve your goal: you may find it is hard to concentrate on your work.
3、Affect your daily life 4、Health & mental problem
Part3 Reasons
Reasons (How does P come about?)
1. Perfectionism. They expect all things can reach a very high level, so they do not want to have a rush beginning, everything should be ready for the job.
2. Easy decadence(堕落\\颓废). The task is too difficult, they just ask why I need to do this. They cannot tolerant continued to do this, they want to do it tomorrow. But more often they are not willing or unhappy to finish when tomorrow comes, and continue to put off their work.
3. Lazy. Always feel there is sufficient time and are able to complete the work in their last breath, willpower(意志力) is not strong.
4. Too hard. The task itself is too difficult, they have no idea about it and are afraid to take a start of the task.
Part4 Solutions 1.Category.
There certainly will be some problem that was unexpected and cannot be wait to solve. Winners spend time doing the most important but not the most urgent thing. Put all the work into four categories: both urgent and important, important but not urgent, urgent but not important, not urgent nor important, then put them in order to complete. 2.Eliminate interference.
Turn off the QQ, turn off the music, turn off the TV......Turn off all the things that will affect your efficiency, to do things wholeheartedly. 3.Mutual supervision.
Finding some friends together to overcome this bad habit is much easier than doing it alone.
4.Do not give yourself too much time.
Psychological experts find that those who spend two years to complete postgraduate thesis always give themselves a little time to relax, but those who spend three years or more spend every minute in gathering information and writing. It means sometimes working the quicker the more efficient.
5.Set a more specific goal, cut the big task into smaller tasks.
For example, if your plan is “I want to lose weight and maintain good posture”, then this program is likely to abortion. But if your plan is “I get up at seven in the morning and go to the gym three times a week”, then this program is likely to be persevered. So, you may divide the task into small targets that can be controlled.
Realize it’s no need to procrastinate
Write down the reason why you will procrastinate piece by piece Overcome Take action Take action ……
Part5 Summary
Whether you admit it or not, most of us are more or less procrastinating. But it’s not a good habit, in order to have a more effective life and study, we have to get rid of this bad habit which called procrastination.
DO IT NOW. Sometimes 'LATER' Becomes 'NEVER'.
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