Due Date

“Heather, you should go write your essays or study for your exams now!” “Don’t worry, I will do them later!” That is the daily conversation you will often hear around the house between my parents and me. The conversation generally begins the day the assignments are provided and two weeks before each exam week, but the “do it” part does not occur until the night before the due date. On nights before each due date, the confident and carefree Heather that once said “don’t worry” can be seen struggling to keep her eyes open at 4:00 am in the morning while shoving a textbook of information into her head. As much as I detest it, I am the “pro” in procrastinate, and the laziness in me embraces the motto “if tomorrow is not the due date, today is not the do-date.” Procrastination, the act of delaying an action, is real and happening around the world.
I had also decided that I was prepared to write my essay on my procrastination and indolence. Somehow, time fast-forwarded to the day before the essay’s due date, and I now realized that I have been procrastinating on my essay about procrastination. Fortunately, this is a psychology class, and I have learned many different theories to help change my undesirable behavior for good. To fix my level of procrastination, I should use the incentive theory of motivation, social-cognitive learning theory, and approach goals