Procrastination Outline

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Get off our Buts Starting a new college year brings back old habits that one yearns to conquer and never confront again. Benjamin Franklin summed up the essence of all dirty diversions with the quote, “Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff that life is made of.” (Franklin). Procrastination. How can one simple word associated with habitually delaying something carry such a sense of terror and personal debasement (Simpson)? Students, especially, have pitched a mental boot camp daily preparing for battle by sharpening a full artillery of excuses. Some of these excuses do not even seem to be wrong. For example, it is debatable if completing an assignment due two days from now instead of focusing on tomorrow’s deadline is really procrastination. However, once completed, there is no immediate satisfaction with what has been done because the creeping fingers of time are continually counting down the hours till tomorrow’s judgment day. It is interesting to note that procrastination actually results in more work then was actually required to meet a goal; not only that, but, the stress levels it takes to play hide and seek with a deadline is enough to make one age prematurely (Peters 5). Hermit crabs are known for taking on a shell that hides the true life within—procrastinators are just the same. It leaves a person painting a façade to the people around them even to the point of lying about activities because they themselves are consumed in a back bending fiction that they call their life. Not giving into procrastination allows one to become genuine to one self. This road is not devoid of potholes but includes being open with one’s feelings, realistically making goals, and accepting what is found along the way (Burka 144). Nike has realized that the best way to squash excuses is to almost guilt a person into getting off their butt and

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