Procrastinating

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Are you an LI Procrastinator(TM) ?

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That's interesting. Alhamdulillah, I somehow manage to get pleasing grades with a minimal amount of work and revision. But, I know for a fact that I am capable of much more. And procrastination is the issue.

It also means that I have to stay up until really late at night doing last minute work, which knocks my sleep patterns completely out of balance. Getting a decent amount of sleep is important, from a health perspective.

Also, I love my beauty sleep.

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As Salaam Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Stop Procrastinating

  • Recognize that procrastination stems from habit. New habits will be needed, and these take time and commitment to develop.
  • Harold Taylor defines procrastination as the intentional and habitual postponement of an important task that should be done now.
  • Understand the cause for procrastination, then develop strategies to fix it.
  • Recognize the difference between an appropriate decision to delay, and an irrational postponement without justification.
  • Fix procrastination by working on a) tasks and b) your environment:

TASK STRATEGIES

Unpleasant tasks

  • Unpleasant tasks rarely turn out to be as bad as you think.
  • Complete these tasks first. Schedule them for early in the day. Give yourself a reward for doing them.
Complex Projects
  • Something looms ahead of you: starting a small business, getting a job, preparing the annual budget. The job is too big or will take too long to do now, so you put it off.
  • Break large jobs into smaller, more manageable tasks. Plan and complete a start-up task, no matter how small.
  • Indecision
  • People delay because they can't make up their minds.
  • Determine a time for making a decision and the criteria for making it. Share your deadline with someone else.
Fear of failure (lack of self confidence)
  • People don't want to face the consequences of failure, so they delay. (Some people suffer from fear of success too!)
  • Develop a clear mental picture of the completed task and how you will feel at that time. Maintain a focus on the end result, not just the process. Remind yourself how good you'll feel when you're finished.

Lack of interest
  • You are tired or lazy. You're just not very interested in the task.
  • Reward yourself for accomplishments. Go out for special lunches when major projects are completed. If you don't earn the reward, don't take it.
  • Schedule the task for when you will be at your peak.

Perfectionism
  • People delay because they want to get the project perfect.
  • Set deadlines for yourself. Tell other people your deadlines and encourage them to check up on you.
  • Maintain your high standards, but recognize that sometimes 80% for you may well be 100% for someone else. Don't spend hours conducting a detailed cost breakdown when a rough estimate would suffice.

Hostility towards a boss
  • People delay because they don't like the person who assigned the task.
  • Review with your boss what exactly is needed. Clarify the expectations.
  • Make a game out of unpleasant tasks. Give yourself points, or do a running commentary on yourself as you do the task.


Distraction, lack of focus
  • Sometimes losing concentration causes delays.
  • Create a to-do list with priorities.
  • Block your time for projects.
  • As you get distracted from a work project, make a rule that you are not allowed to move out of your chair, make a call, surf the net, pick up a book etc. until you return to your task.
  • Complete something. Make a very small task for yourself and finish it. Very small. Then, make another one.

ENVIRONMENT STRATEGIES
  • Tailor your environment for work. Close your door, clean up the clutter on your desk.
  • Remove distractions such as water coolers, snacks, in-boxes, coffee machines and magazine racks.
  • If you work at home, treat your office as an office. Don't go out to lunch before lunchtime or watch television before the end of the day.
  • Tell your family that you are not to be disturbed in your home office.

http://www.getmoredone.com/tips2.html
 
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I somehow manage to get pleasing grades with a minimal amount of work and revision. But, I know for a fact that I am capable of much more. And procrastination is the issue.
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I could say the exact same thing! lol

JizakAllah Khayr for the tips ukhtee!^

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JazakAllaah Khayr sister RighteousLady. That's a really good article!
 
Man, this was troubling me for so long, I haven't been on Islamicboard for like 7/9 months, and the moment I log back in, the answer is here.

Its been troubeling me to point that I promised myself I would go Rambo on ALL of my course work, Uni is just so hard ( negativity something ubiquous). Long nights of No sleep, took their toll on me.

I was once so motivated and hard working, but now I feel like I am the lowest of all creation, subhanAllah the tests are everywhere and get harder as we grow. I figured though that I can only go up from where I am now.

Plus the pressures of getting a car, well that's another one lol.

SubhanAllah though, I got my mind around finally today, and I made myself a promise of making tommorow, a day of Only Allah. Only doing things benefiting me, see how that goes, and if it works out, everyday will be like that.

May Allah Bless you Brothers and Sisters for always saying the right thing, May Allah Save us from Procrastination, Wallahi it is not the way of the Sahabah. RasulAllah salAllahu Aleyhi Wa Salam would not be proud of us if he saw us today.

We are the muslims, the angels were made to prostrate in front of Adam, The Honour Allah has given us Muslims. To throw that away is like blowing our blessings away like dust in the palm of our hands..Once gone, there can be no getting back.

Muslims are the best of creatures, let us make the world realize that. Let them see that when we muslims actually work, we are the best. Whether that be on academic grounds or etiquettes (?). Show your whole class that you are better then any one of them. Allah gave you 24 hours a day, so you can achieve 24 different things every day, and you still got a week and 2 days, my maths is crap but that's like 240 hours, 240 different chances.

Remember, never will Allah change a peoples condition, until they change what is within themselves. Lets win from shaitaan, there is nothing to fear, only gain. Once you realize that, then you have defeated your enemy/procrastination( for now lol).



I pray we all get rid of this evil, may Allah accept it from you and me.

JazakAllah Khair to each and everyone of you.

And I'm glad to be back :)
 
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Ibn Umayr said:
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatullah,

You know procrastinating can be a good thing, i usually tend to find that work that is done last minute is better than work that you spend ages doing...What do you think? :D

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I think your being way too confident
I go through phases of procastinating. sometimes i can be bad, but then ill go through this phase were ill get so fed up with getting nothing accomplished, that would be my motivation to kill the habit...
 
some procrastination is normal, we all try to delay doing what is unpleasant and have an desire that if we can avoid doing it, the need to do it will go away. However, procrastinating becomes a problem when it is interfers with our duties and or quality of life.

There have been some excellent suggestions on how to get out of the procrastination cycle. but, none of them will work until we make the concious effort to apply them to our own lives.
 
Hmm... Probably not. I don't find LI that interesting, not interesting enough to evade an essay anyway. Sometimes I do essays while signed onto MSN, though it's easy to lose concentration that way so I do try and avoid it. The best way to do something is do it, then have all your entertainment afterwards.

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Thanks for the replies. I would say that for me, it is a problem. Since my Easter holidays started (last Thursday), I have only done three quarters of an essay. And I have got looooads of other homework to do. But I just find myself on LI; because that's where I want to be.

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Your easter started last thursday? :shocked: Same! I also have an essay to write, I'm saving it 'till wednesday because the teacher insisted on this being a short essay; 2 pages max. Man was I glad to hear that.

Do you go to high school bro'?
 
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And the answer to your poll, YES << had to be capitalised!!
 
Ima procrastinator and its not hurting me too badly. I think my work is better quality when I do it at the last minute cuz then I know that I have to give it all I got. But if I do stuff ahead of time, then I dont go all out cuz I know that ill have more time later. Im happy with the grades Im getting, but I kno if I didnt cram all the time, Id have a better understanding of science math vocab etc. Because when I cram for a test, I forget 95% of the info the day after the test.
 
The poll isn't looking great, is it. :X
 
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maybe people are just too proud to admit it...
ps what does TM mean :?
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