Skills Paper

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Kenzie Sturza
Procrastination and Motivation
Instruct: Lancelot Falcon

Skills Paper

The one skill that would have the greatest positive impact on my academic career would be to write down all my assignments and do them the day they are assigned. That would eliminate a lot of stress and it would help me get good grades in all my classes. I have a really big problem with waiting till the last minute to do everything, especially when it comes to homework. This has hurt me a lot especially this term. Whenever I know I have a huge assignment due I wait to get started on it rather than just doing it. Getting started is a huge problem I run into. Once I get started I can usually get the assignment done really quickly, and not have to worry about it anymore. This term I am falling behind because I keep getting assignments and not doing them until the day they are due. I really need to make an effort on not being scared of the big assignments and just do them when I get them! Going to school full time can be very time consuming. It takes up more of my time than a full time job. There are weeks when all my assignments pile up and I forget which assignments that I need to do first. There are have been many times when I do the wrong assignment first and the one that is due isn’t finished. Writing the due dates and the assignments each week would help me get all my assignments done on time. I need to make a list and put it in a place where I constantly see it that way it reminds me that I need to stop procrastinating and do my assignments. I have done this in the past put I usually just put the list in my pack back and it usually gets lost. Out of sight out of mind is the

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