The Problem of my Life

One of my biggest problems of my life dictates my every day routine. Procrastination. Even with the urges and pleas of my family and friends not to procrastinate, I still do it. Though I want this problem to be fixed, my procrastination is not that simple to do so. Not only does my lack of time management skills affects my routine, but also my natural tendency to be lazy and relaxed before my deadline alarm rings.

Procrastination is like a maze. Once you step into one, it will be difficult to get out. Even if you did escape, there is a high percentage of diving straight into another one. My procrastination begins when I slack off a week or even a few days. I usually will wait until the night before or even the morning of to do the assignment. There are several days where I am determine to go straight home and finish my homework right away and work on assignments not due for a while to get a head start. However almost every single time, I have something I must complete because of the procrastination done earlier. When I have leisure time, I do not catch up on my work because I know there is still tomorrow to complete it. It is not like I do not try to create a schedule for myself; it is just the fact that I cannot follow my own schedule and make myself work ahead of deadlines. Working on assignments prior to the due dates feels foreign and unnatural to me.

My procrastination has reached the point where it is affecting my health. Although I am use to it, I do not get the amount of sleep that normal teens should be getting. Due to the increasing workload from school, procrastination, and my extracurricular classes, the number of hours I sleep is decreasing every year. For example, the current time that I am writing this blog is 5 am. By the time I am complete with this blog, I will mostly likely only have an hour to an hour and a half to sleep. Whether it is during the weekday or the weekend, even six hours of sleep is rare and a blessing. Procrastination is a huge issue that I need to fix before it becomes worse.