Procrastination 101

     So I'm sure we're all amazing high school students, who turn on their work on time and ensure ourselves an amazing future. No? Perhaps you forget to turn something in every once in a while. Perhaps that new popular app is begging to be played. Perhaps there is a million other reasons that we aren't doing something. I believe we all have the potential to be that "amazing high school student."
     I know what is stopping me though...
     Procrastination.
     I'm sure many of us battle this... thing. We see the overwhelming Work Monster (probably looks something like this) and suddenly we're a little moist at the waist and are running towards the nearest exit. From that exit, we find the bliss of procrastination...! Suddenly even the most boring task sounds fun and we tell ourselves that we will have time to finish. Usually we don't. I'll spend six hours watching a new Netflix interest, or playing some of those new games I find online, or making food to make myself not hungry even though I never really was. Sometimes, I even clean the house.
     It's these demons that are the toughest to kill. Today, while telling myself I was gonna get on homework, I went and browsed through my Tumblr and Facebook feed. I've got a sticky note on my right that is telling me all the important work I need to get done today. Ha. Hahaha. So whilst browsing through this feed, one of my friends shared an article about Procrastination.
     "Hey! This will be a good thing to read rather than reading Frankenstein! Lets do that!" I told myself. I assume you can understand the irony of this situation. So I read it, and it was actually pretty cool (if you're interested, you can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here). That post is actually the inspiration I had to writing this blog post today. It explained procrastination in a way that really helped rationalize the situation; it explained ways to combat it. The post was light-hearted but serious, so I felt as if the writer had a clear understanding on the subject (and spent some time thinking about it, rather than just throwing thoughts out there as I usually do in my blog posts).
     Well, I don't have much else to share with you guys today. I wanted to share this post, and that it could possibly bring you a beacon of hope that you can get over it. I'm overwhelmed and worried about my own problems, and that it will cause many more issues in college. So I'm gonna try to tackle it, one step at a time.

Hobey ho,
-- Nate


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