Procrastination is my worst enemy!

Procrastinating was always something that followed me everywhere. Not only academic wise, but also when I have to fill out an application for something, procrastination always followed me. When I can just do the paper works way before the due date but I just wait until the day before and end up having to turn in a very bad quality of application. If I were to do it way before the due date, I can look it over and over and make sure if I made any mistakes and make it a better application. With homework, and studying for exams, I always happen to do them right before the day. I hated being me when it comes to procrastinating. Why do I always procrastinate? I have all the time I want but I never seems to use them wisely. Even doing laundry, cleaning the room, I always say ' I will just do it tomorrow..' then this continues on and on and on. I have tried many times to fix this problem but it always failed after few days of trying. I just hate the fact of studying and having to do work. However, I just cannot live my life this way so I have decided to use few stradegies that are most effective for me. First I have used the time waster to see what really is affecting me to avoid the things that I have to do. First biggest time waster I have written down was use of my cellphone. I cannot live without my cellphone. I get very scared and anxious if I do not have my phone next to me. It has been a habit of mine that even when I am eating I have my phone next to me. Even my parents gave up on me when I am using my phone. Because the use of my phone, I avoided doing my daily homework for classes and do them right before the class. Doing the homework right before class make my homework very poor quality and end up getting a bad grade on it. The next biggest time waster of mine would be using the computer. Computer is my second cellphone. Computer is with me all the time and I am on facebook all the time. Before, when I thought facebook was avoiding me from doing many things, so I had deactivated my facebook for a week. And it was successful, I had many things done during that period time and I felt like I actually have a life. But the problem was many people could not contact me and I was loosing my social life. The last biggest time waster I have is sleeping. I love sleeping and eating. I would choose sleeping and eating over studying any time. Sleeping and eating avoided me from going to classes on time. These were my biggest time waster of my whole life and it had avoided me from doing so many things. Then I thought I should really do something about it. And I found the rewards method. Since I was a little girl, I loved getting rewarded, from my parents or from a competition. So I thought this stradegy will help me a lot. This is a chart of things that should be done to be rewarded. First I thought getting good grades for myself and for my parents were most important thing for me to get done. Then the rewards would be raising my allowance money. Getting good grades will definately make my parents happy and that will make them raise my allowance money. Secondly, my goal right now is to either move to whitman college or transfer out of SU. In order for me to achieve those things, I have to get a good GPA. So studying hard and getting a good GPA will reward me a good future and graduate school. Also, last thing to be done is work hard as a RSA. I am working at school as a RSA and for that I have to work hard in order for me to keep the job and get paid well. And whenver I get paid, I go out and eat. So basically going out and eating would be my reward of working hard as a RSA. I have used two stradegies in order for me to fix my biggest problem I ever had. So far, having to write down specifically what my biggest problems and the most effective ways to fix those problems, it has helped me do things on time. Hopefully this techniques will help me continue to do things on time and get rewarded for it just as I wished for.