I have had a thought about what I should do to improve myself before, but it just a fleeting thought and I haven’t put it into consider seriously. This project is a chance for me to review myself, what I should do, what is my goal and how can I get that goals. Below is the list of things I need to improve: - First, my procrastination, maybe it’s also known as my laziness. - My bad habits – can’t stay away of smart phone. - Late sleeping – I usually go to bed at about 1:30 am. - I haven’t taken any exercise so far. - Being indecisive in decision making. To become a better person, not to mention a good leader yet, I have to point out the bad things of myself and face it. Having noticed them, I will find ways and make plans to remove it in order …show more content…
For instance, I’m about to write a CV in this summer holidays to apply for some internship department. But I have always put off the work and convinced myself that I have a lot of time and I can do it later. So, I left it behind one time, and again, and over again. Finally, I haven’t completed my CV until now, although my summer time was ended. Although I always regret the wasted time, I still stay procrastinating. Procrastinating habit also influences my sleeping routine. I usually go to bed at about 1:30 am, sometimes is to complete the important work for tomorrow which I can’t have another choice or delay it anymore, sometimes is to surfing the Facebook or reading news. And the late sleeping habit leads me to a tired feeling in the next morning. In spite of the fact that I sleep about 7 to 8 hours per night, I still have a feel like I haven’t slept enough. Then I’m not ready to put 100 percent of my energy to any work. I become lazy and hesitate to do everything. My procrastinating habit has happened for a long time and its adverse effect to me is detectable. Having recognized that, I have made a plan to save myself from that bad habit. The first thing is I will set a daily schedule in my phone, which will
I am trying to be an uplifting person and an influence for good around me by do a small act of service every day. Though I am not perfect I try my best to be honest, trustworthy, and responsible. I try to a leader almost subconsciously, because if there is something that I want or need done in a group, I will not hesitate to do my best to get the work done or to delegate work to those around me. I try to do things
position, however, the strain between the ranks compounded. In his book Company Commander, historian Charles B. MacDonald described his experience as a newly commissioned captain to a combat-experienced regiment during the Battle of the Bulge. Early in the campaign, after his first engagement as the company’s commander, MacDonald recalled, “I wondered what the men of my headquarters group thought of me as a company commander now? Had I been a complete failure?
If I knew that I would be away from home all day at a marching band competition on Saturday, then I would need to schedule time during the week and Sunday to work on projects or studying for tests. I could no longer procrastinate until the last minute, or I would end up getting only one or two hours of sleep. Because of marching band, I changed my habits of procrastination and transformed into a schedule-oriented
For example, take the initiative in the activities we carried out, and give opinions on the reflective questions of the various activities we did in a group. However, in spite of everything I am sure that little by little I will improve and I will
I have a few things I need to work on as a person. One key thing I have to change is, procrastination. I have been procrastinating my whole life. I rather put it off then to just get it over with. In the real world, I can potentially lose my job if I put a project or a piece of work off until later.
In developing this paper on leadership, I examined what was most important to me as a leader. As I reflected on my leadership philosophy, I thought about my experiences and the principals that I have learned through my own self-discovery and the observation of other leaders that I have had throughout my life. My leadership philosophy paper will focus on what leadership is to me, core values, and knowledge of others. In thinking about my definition of leadership, I thought of what was most important to me in and as a leader.
Central Idea : Reasons why people procrastinate and therefore, we must cure it or we will encounter with negative impact. Introduction I.Procrastinate, have you ever delaying your work and feel more stress is added to yourself and not realizing it happen? Now that’s what we called procrastination. II.Procrastination has become serious these days.
My concept of procrastination was that mine wasn’t all that bad, that I didn’t procrastinate that much. So that meant in my mind that deadlines weren’t that big of a thing to worry about. I would get the work done in time for it even if the work was thrown together last minute. Time also seems to become a less intimidating thing.
I witnessed firsthand how procrastinating had made my life and the life of those around me so much harder and stressful than it needed to be. I have struggled with my bad habit of procrastinating for a long time and although it has gotten better, I still haven’t completely overcome it. It’s something that affects my life everyday. Not only that, but it’s a conscious decision I still choose most of the time. It makes my life harder and isn’t beneficial in anyway, but I just can’t seem to stop procrastinating.
This investigation analyses the causes and effects of procrastination and explores a range of measures suitable to cease this destructive habit. The information for this report has been gathered from both printed and electronic sources namely published books, online journal articles, newspaper articles and psychological websites. It was found that procrastination is mainly driven by the fear towards failure and imperfection. Ineffective time spending and poor time allocation is also a root cause of procrastination. Procrastination may deteriorate procrastinator’s health in which procrastinators suffer high stress leading to other chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and hypertension.
It is capable of damaging all aspects of our life, causing grief, at school, at work, and in our private lives especially in relation to our wealth, health and happiness. No matter the measure attained, procrastinators perform worse. For instance, secondary school and universities students, about
Another limitation of this study is that it assumed that procrastination can only be explored in terms of two binaries – active and passive procrastination. However, there is a possibility that active and passive procrastination may occur along a wide spectrum, and a person may have characteristic traits of both active and passive procrastination. Future research should incorporate the possibility of procrastination occurring across a wide
Those who chronically procrastinate will often experience higher levels of stress and anxiety in and out of the academic setting, when it comes to the completion of a task. As to academic procrastinators who typically just do the minimal, like studying late for an exam or waiting until last minute to turn in an assignment. There are two main reasons for academic procrastination found from the study provided in the text, one task avoidance and two fears of failure. Task avoidance occurs when either
I have always hated writing about myself, and I always dreaded assignments in school where I had to describe myself. I always wanted to avoid doing these assignments because I did not want to sound narcissistic, or self-absorbed. I dislike people like that now, because I used to be one of those people. It took many lessons learned before I humbled myself; I am still learning to humble myself today with recent experiences I have had. Although I hate to write about myself, I have always liked to reflect on myself.
The question posed in the title, “Who am I?” is very simple but the answers are never so. What defines me as who I am as a person today are relatively my attitude, my personal values and beliefs to life that developed throughout my life. “Values are constructs that we hold as important and beliefs are constructs that we hold to be true (Collins & Chippendale, 1995)”. Meanwhile, attitudes are relatively lasting clusters of emotions, beliefs, and behavior tendencies directed towards specific ideas, people or objects (Baron & Byrne, 1984). Generally, my family members, friends and the experiences I had contribute to my sense of who I am and how I view the world.