Procrastination
A Time Management Exercise

Not everyone is an All-star at keeping track of their time and neither are we.  So, here is a web site that is designed to give you a look at your time management skills.  Who knows? You might just learn something!

Why the web site?
What's the big deal about procrastination?
What makes us the time management experts?

Take our handy dandy Procrastination Indicator Quiz!

Why the web site?


What's the big deal about procrastination?

    Procrastination itself is not a bad thing.  Those of us who procrastinate are able to be flexible, work well under pressure, juggle many tasks at once and we constantly find countless other rationalizations that we regularly use to justify our behavior.  Like we said though, procrastination itself isn't bad.  The problem is just that it can easily becomes a dreadful and addictive habit.  Before you know it, you find yourself doing everything at the last minute usually forgetting important projects, meetings, and events as a result of procrastinating and poor planning.  This is the problem.  We cause ourselves a great deal of stress, anxiety, and worry and  worst of all it is self imposed.  We are the ones that procrastinate. So why would  we want to do that to ourselves when it would be much easier to develop a time management system that works for us. We are sure that it would solve many of the problems that procrastination causes. However, for procrastinators that is easier said then done.  However, if you really want to get yourself motivated just think, who wants to be that member of a group or class where no one wants to work  with because you are notorious for being full of excuses and dead weight?

What makes us time management experts?

Nothing!  You see there is no such thing as an expert.  We are recovering procrastinators.  We fight it everyday.  Sometimes we win.  Sometimes we don't.  The fact is that we know what it is like to not be great at time management.  Take a look at us:

Tameka King:
    I'm a second year masters student at the University of Georgia in College Student Affairs Administration, and I am a procrastinator.

WHAT IS PROCRASTINATION?
   To me, procrastination is an escape from everything that I hate to do. It allows me to avoid taking part in any activity that challenges me to be punctual, productive, or responsible for any particular function that would not normally bring me great joy.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TIME MANAGEMENT QUOTE?
    "There is a difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection.  The first is attainable, gratifying, and healthy.  The second is unattainable, frustrating, and neurotic.  It is also a terrible waste of time."
            Edwin Bliss

 
 
 
 JD White:
    I'm a second year masters student at the University of Georgia in College Student Affairs Administration, and I am a procrastinator.

WHAT IS PROCRASTINATION?
    For me, procrastination is the ability to wait until the last possible moment to do a project.  It is not writing down meetings in a calendar when I schedule them.  It is calling my friends to find out what is due in class the next day.  It is a bad habit and one that doesn't break easily.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TIME MANAGEMENT QUOTE?

    "Make it a point to do something everyday that you don't want to do.  This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

Mark Twain