Welcome back for another week of experimentation in the\nworld of habits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week\u2019s challenge: No Procrastination<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This last week I decided to not do any “fun” activities until my work was done for the day. I have to preface this habit with the motivation behind it. One of my best friends and roommate for 3 years in now going into his second year at med school. He was a National Merit Scholar in high school (tested into the 99% percentile), graduated from Whitewater with a 4.0 with ease, and rarely studied. I never saw this man stressed out, frantically typing a paper, or pulling an all-nighter. I would constantly ask him how he had all this free time when I was doing school work and he simply replied, \u201cI already did my homework.\u201d He laid down this wisdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou\u2019re going to have to do the work anyways so I would rather get it out of the way as early as possible and then enjoy the free time with no stress.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Obviously, this has gotten him pretty far in life so I\ndecided to try that this week. I made sure that my homework was done before I\ndid any extracurricular or personal activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. What was the biggest change\/effects I noticed? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stress disappeared instantly. I cannot explain how\neliminating procrastination had the biggest effect on my mood. I felt I could\nactually enjoy my free time instead of constantly worrying about what I had to\nget done later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. What were minor changes\/effects that occurred\nthroughout the week?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As the week progressed, I found it easier to make school\nwork a priority rather than a job that had to be done. It shifted my mindset\nfrom chore to activity and actually gave me a great structure for my morning. As\nwe are all floating in the ambiguous blur of the day from COVID-19, structure\nis a beautiful thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Was this health habit enjoyable?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This was very enjoyable. It made me sleep better, enjoy the\nday more, and generally give the day more purpose. School work used to be, \u201cI\u2019ll\nget that done by tonight,\u201d but shifting the procrastination to purposeful made\nthis habit more enjoyable as the habit progressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. How can this health habit sustainable in the long\nterm?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I had to defer to the expert, my friend, on this one. He is\nactually hardwired to work this way, but he did say to make a list of what you\nneed to get done without making it insurmountable. He said there basically 3\ncategories for work: <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Immediate deadline \u2013 it is due that night<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Cushion work \u2013 by doing it now you reduced tomorrow load<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Long-term \u2013 group projects<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n He said the goal it to do all immediate work, as much\ncushion work as you feel like doing as early as possible, and at least some\nlong-term work every day and you\u2019ll always be fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of all the things I have done, I think this one will probably\nbe the most useful moving forward into the future. The reduction of stress is a\nburden off your back that will make you enjoy the day so much more as opposed\nto having a nagging laundry list in the back of your mind all day. I hope you\nchoose to test-drive this habit at least once to see how much it can change\nyour day. Having the stress removed and the deadlines monster vanquished lets\nyou take full advantage of the age of saying carpe diem<\/em> because ready or\nnot\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Life Willkomm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back for another week of experimentation in the world of habits. This week\u2019s challenge: No Procrastination This last week I decided to not do any “fun” activities until my work was done for the day. I have to preface this habit with the motivation behind it. One of my best friends and roommate for … Continue reading Leaving Procrastination Station<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77791,7247],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-habit","tag-work-ethic","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lukewillkomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}