Of course, the best way to do this is to replace your procrastination habit with a “get things done” habit. That way, every time you would have gone to procrastinate, you now do something else instead – your
Student procrastination in one the most serious drawbacks of self-paced learning. Our study investigated the effectiveness of three types of course contingencies (contracting, doomsday, and doomsday with tokens) designed to reduce student procrastination in a personalized system of instruction (PSI) ...
My experience with my own students is that a lot of them don’t realize there are lots of components to successful learning. If they aren’t doing well on a test, they think they need to study more by committing more to memory. But I point out that might be fine but (the real prob...
Traditional interventions for academic procrastination often fail to capture the nuanced, individual-specific factors that underlie them. Large language models (LLMs) hold immense potential for addressing this gap by permitting open-ended ...
Automating your payments is an easy way to make sure your debts are being paid so you avoid racking up additional costs in late fees. If you’re neurodiverse and struggle with forgetfulness or procrastination, automating your payments can be especially helpful. If you’re practicing a debt sn...
Inability to Start:You may have ideas swirling in your mind, but you can't seem to put pen to paper or brush to canvas. The blank page continues to stare back at you, tauntingly blank. Procrastination:Instead of tackling your creative projects, you are distracted by everything else. Scrol...
(2016) could show that university students' use of motivational regulation strategies indirectly contributed to their general satisfaction with studies via reduced academic procrastination. Second, Bäulke, Eckerlein, and Dresel (2018) found a negative indirect effect of motivational regulation on ...
In this post, we have 10 ways to tilt the odds in your favor to get that spark back, which will make it easier to get back on track. You’ll also learn about the motivation killing factors in language learning and how to deal with them. ...
The problem only gets worse when your list is extremely long. Having too many options can lead toprocrastination, for instance. In theirresearch, Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper found that too many choices reduce shoppers’ likelihood of buying anything. ...
The best way to deal with this depression and anxiety about reaching your goals is to just take some quiet time to yourself. Sit alone with your thoughts for 20-30 minutes. Remind yourself why the goals you are striving toward matter so much to you. Do some low-grade meditation and think...