Procrastination

We all have bad habits. Some people bite their nail, some crack thier knuckles, and some people smoke. If it's not obvious by the date all theses blog entries were written on, I have a problem with putting off assignments until the last minute. It's not that I enjoy doing a whole quarter's worth of English entries in one day, I just have a problem with finding the motivation to do an assignment until I've just about run out of time.

Thankfully I'm not alone, procrastination rates can range from 46% to as high as 95% depending on the year and school.

So I accidentally came across some interesting information while finding that nifty little statistic in the paragraph above. Apparently it's not just a time management problem that can contribute to chronic procrastination. It seems like one major contributor to procratination is a coping style known as avoidance. It's pretty much that people with this style of coping (myself included), put off problems rather than facing them. I don't know how to go about changing this cycle of procrastination, but I'll make an effort to move forward and break out of this bad habit.