Yesterday I made a "to-do list" for myself, it's not quite an usual thing for me, 'cause I'm more preferring to make plan in my mind, before going to bed, or after waking up. But last night, I suddenly felt so stressful that I've got a bunch of things to be done by this weekend, though everything seems having been started, none of them looks like going to be successfully ended within these days. So I made plan, very detailed. I listed something like "19:00-20:00 update group doc; 20:00-21:00 reply TA mail; 21:00-23:00 finish at least 1/3 of final paper". It looks very workable, but the truth is, I did finish the first two as I planned, but when it came to the time for the paper, I turned my attention to something else, something also needs to be done but not that important.
I thought a "to-do list" could be a way for solving my procrastination. Actually it works, but not that much. I mean, without it, maybe I could not even finish the first two things on time, but I still can find excuse for myself to avoid the "big project". This is awful, especially when I can justify my behavior by doing something that is also on my list.
The good news is that everything is getting better than what it was a couple of weeks ago, but not good enough. Though I can see the progresses I made, they are not enough. Being in graduate school, procrastination can really kill me.
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