Hello all! for one of the last times before this ends='( tear...
Ahh this week went well! ha ha probably because it was pretty chill. I had tests and projects to stress out for last week, and the relief of them being done makes this week seem relaxing in a way.
Thurs: pretty chill day because its the end of my school week so I just relaxed for the rest of my day and hung out with Alex and Jamie at Pizza Co.
Fri: started my english paper then moved on to studying for poli sci (ha ha rachele and alex know my pain!).
Sat:went out with family and finished studying for poli sci. Worked on my english essay a bit more.
Sun:finished my english essay before my 11 deadline
Mon: yay back to school again -.-' yah right... any way 2 tests but had the rest of the day to do whatever. So I started reading for the psych quiz.
Tues: I continued to read for psych and went online to look at other colleges and everything i have done for my ed plan an what I still need to do...yep that's the great thing about extra time...you can figure out more things that are important for your future....not just for the week.
Wed:.....by the gods...that's today! I finished reading for psych, took the quiz not long ago and now I am writing this. :)
Overall I'd say it was a pretty chill week. I had a lot of extra time to think about other things and do things in sections so that I didn't feel overwhelmed. I used the note cards like those who commented my blog suggested and man did it help. I found that it is really beneficial to stop napping during the day because I feel that I sleep better through the night and wake up without that @_@ feeling of I'm so tired I wanna collapse, or my eyes are hurting and I look like I have a hangover.
I think my behavior changed a lot. I feel better, work better, and am seeing the benefits physically, mentally and emotionally that refraining from procrastination yields.
I would have to say that the reinforcements worked better than the punishments. The negative punishment( removing music) helped too, but it wasn't as strong as the reinforcements...which is kind of a testament to what the book was saying about reinforcements strengthening the recurrence of behavior. I think the punishments didn't really affect me because as all of us have learned, its hard to punish yourself especially when that brain of yours tries to find ways to get away from it, or think of ways to justify not punishing yourself. The heightened awareness of my behavior definitely helped the change. One of the problems with my procrastination was that I was procrastinating on purpose to try and gain sleep but it just made things worse. Hm I think that for this to be long term it would have to be so repetitious that it becomes habit. I mean so much of a habit that it is annoying when I am faced with doing work now or saving it for later. The most challenging part of this was not napping! I loved coming home and plopping on the bed and heading into la la land, and breaking that routine was extremely hard. I think the most interesting thing about this assignment was that I could be a guinea pig and the experimenter. I could see if I could change my behavior and it worked. It wasn't perfect and yes there were slip ups, but that comes with being both the experimenter and the test subject. I liked the changes that happened, and hopefully it does become habit. This site gave some info on how to make it a habit so I will try it and see what happens!
Goodbye fellow classmates! I bid you adieu!
P.S. my title is lame and I am aware of that, but I couldn't help it! it was funny at the time!
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That's good. It looks like your plan works great this week. You finished everything before the deadline, and you had extra time to think about future. I am glad to see your success.
ReplyDeleteWow. You made extreme progress in your behavior -it seems like you have beaten procrastination by a huge margin. Do you think your new habits will transfer to next the semester? Or will you desgin a new program to beat it again if it reappears. I have had trouble fighting procrastination even though this is not what my program is about. But I have taken some of your ideas in your program and wallah they too have worked.
ReplyDeleteYes, playing two roles was interesting..in some ways. I mostly found it to be an obstacle when using conditioning on myself. See, when you are the one administering the conditioning anD the one being conditioned, you can easily ignore the experimenter part of yourself and any punishments and reinforcers. But if you have greater self-control than I do, this probably isn't a problem =P
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I think it did work for you. Your results this week show that you did not procrastinate and got everything done in time. I'm glad you've changed your sleeping habits. I hope you continue to have chill weeks, even after this assignment is over =]
Hi Phylicia,
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to see the great improvement you have accomplished. I whish you to continue to have under control your bad habit of procrastinating. Acutually, I am sure you will continue to do not procrastinate because you have already percieved the mental, physical and emotional benefits obtained from having everything on time and not being stressed out. Good luck!
Hey phily!
ReplyDeleteWell it looks like it was a pretty good week for you. You took matters into your own hand and did very good at not procrastinating! You handled your work well and you knew you had to do things ahead of time. Overall i think this was you best week and I hope this program keeps working for you, I might even try it out because I need to work on my procrastination as well and hopefully it goes good for me like it did for you!
I don't think your title is lame!!! Wow you definitely handled this week! Reading your blogs have given me the motivation to battle my own issues with procrastination. Keep up the fight!
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