My worst habit to this day is procrastination. Even though I know I should get it done early and I’ll just regret it if I don’t, I can’t seem to complete a task without putting it off.
The hardest part of getting anything done is starting it. Sometimes the thought of starting something is so stressful and overwhelming that it’s just easier to keep doing something else and leave the task as a problem for our future selves. But the truth is that most of the time, we make it up to be worse in our heads than it actually is and once we finish it, we realize that it wasn’t even that bad in the first place.
Even once you’ve started something, I don’t know why it can be so hard to sit down and finish it all the way through. I think it comes down to how interested you are in what you’re doing. I could sit down and play piano for 6 hours straight feel relaxed the whole time while not even realizing how much time has passed. But as soon as I try to write an essay or study for a science test, I find it difficult to get one sentence down.
Another theory I have is that it’s hard to focus on something when you know that you don’t have to get it done at that exact moment. Sure, it would be ideal and convenient, and if you don’t you will undoubtedly regret it later, but it’s so much easier to just not worry about it for the time being and leave it for later.
Sometimes I think that I’ll never be able to overcome this habit. How will I be able to obtain a job or complete necessary adult tasks or accomplish anything in life if I can’t even answer 6 simple french questions? But I have to think on the positive side. Just because my habits are bad now doesn’t mean they can’t change. I believe that one day, with the right mindset and determination, I’ll be able to get things done early.
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