New Habits Group Presentation

Procrastination Group
Group Speaker: David Mitchell
Hannah Welcome
Anthony Kelly
Chantae Richards
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Procrastination: the act or habit of putting off or delaying, especially

something requiring immediate attention

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Are you a procrastinator?

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Davids Bad Habit

Davids bad habits were bad time management and not being organized. He planned to write things down to help him
remember his tasks but sometimes he forgot to go back to look at his to do list and also where he wrote things down. David
says that when he has to leave his house for an event he is always aware of the time and he deliberately ignores it up until
the last minute. This causes him to be late.

Solutions to Davids Bad Habit

David had purchased a Planning Notebook in a configuration that works for him at the beginning of the semester. He
has also made prompts in his smartphone and work desktop to remind him throughout the day to do an assignment or to
remind him of an event (based on its priority) (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits, 2011). The prompts have ranged from an alarm
on his smartphone to get up in the morning to a doctors appointment on his desktop during the day. In addition to that he
also uses a wall and digital calendar to write down priority notices for the week or month.

Currently uses his planner to keep track of other obligations outside of school and work.

Hannahs Bad Habits

Hannahs bad habit was also bad time management. She planned to get up at 6:30 each morning to get ready for
work. Somehow she set alarms to remind her to get up but she still snoozed them and would go back to bed until
7am. Hannah starts her day at work at 9am but before she leaves for work she wants to have time to eat
breakfast, work out, and do a bit of studying.

Solution to Hannahs Bad Habits

To change this bad habit, Hannah used short term goals such as going to bed earlier, and putting her phone on
the dresser so she had to stand up in order to turn her alarm off. Now that Hannah wakes up early and completes
these things, she has more energy to last her throughout the day.

Hannah has been successful in working on changing her bad habits. She is pressing towards making them
permanent habits.

Chantaes Bad Habit

Chantae considers herself a true procrastinator. A lot of times in her life, procrastination has held her back. She often
tells herself she will complete the task but she just keeps on putting it off. Her task mostly never get done. Recognizing
the signs of procrastination very early makes her able to identify her bad habit and begin to try to overcome
procrastination. In order to overcome procrastination, she plans to do so by developing a new habit which is to be selfmotivated. With this new habit, she would be able to get task done on time without putting them off. Self-motivation
would keep her motivated, allow her to achieve her goals, complete her planned tasks, and produce better work.

Solution to Chantaes Bad Habits

I am letting go of procrastination one day at a time and I will isolate my procrastination to the cause that creates the effect.
(Sheehan, 2014)
In order for Chantae to overcome her bad habits, she came up with a few solutions. Her first step were to eliminate distractions
such as social media sites like WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. The next step she chose was to break
down task into smaller pieces. With this step, she was able to complete task quickly and efficiently. Her last step was to write in a
planner or make a to-do- list. In this planner she would write everything she needs to get done for everyday and also the amount
of time she needs in order to complete the task.

Anthonys Bad Habit

Anthony thinks he is a neurotic perfectionist and a big-deal chaser (Combs, Dean, 2012). This is a type of procrastinator
that becomes immobilized by fear of failure (Carter & Kravits, 2017). Typically their negative qualities are attributed to
unhealthy cognitive conditioning and impractical or unhealthy goals (Combs, Dean, 2012).

Anthony plans to replace this unhealthy habit with anticipation or applying past knowledge to new situations (Carter &
Kravits, 2017; Costa & , Kallick 2013). Essentially his goal is to anticipate with an amplified, objective perspective to reap a
healthier lifestyle. A lifestyle emanating improved work performance and less stress.

Solutions to Anthonys Bad Habit

To achieve his goal of reducing procrastination by means of anticipation, he mostly focused on changing how he interacts with
the environment. Anthony cites his struggles with Grand Caymans food desert, lack of community-oriented urban
planning(although credits West Bay for progressive efforts), and how he needs to improve his sleep habits. By counteracting
these challenges he believes he can minimize the triggers of procrastination and begin to recondition unfavorable neural
pathways. Concrete examples include creative meal planning, working on homework outdoors, and working on assignments
earlier in the day to avoid staying up late.
Procrastination

Big-deal chasing

Neurotic Perfectionism
Overwhelmed/fatigued
Stress

Food Desert

Unhealthy Sleep Habits

Poor Urban Planning

Extremely challenging to avoid sugar and

unhealthy ratios of omega fatty
acids(Simopoulos, 2002)
Extra cost of importing food not
counterbalanced by substandard wages
(The Ministry of Education, Employment and

Gender Affairs, 2002)

potential nutrient imbalances from US
farmed produce (Karr, 2002)

Difficult to maintain fitness

commuting challenges
isolation
difficult to process increased
cortisol

hormone imbalances
inability to focus
less energy (Carter & Kravitz)

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Time Management and Organizational Tips (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits; 2011)
When making a schedule remember to do the following:
Choose a planner (that works for you).
Plan and set your schedule based upon your priorities listing them, from most crucial to least important.
It only works for you if you review it and make notations:
Plan regularly, look and use it often as your planner often, as tasks, events and commitments will sneak up
on you.
Build your schedule on the whole semester, rather than daily assignments (you also have obligations that
are weekly or monthly).
Make and utilize to-do lists (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly).
Use a monthly calendar at home.
Schedule leisure time (you do need to relax too).
Limit time traps (instant messaging, the internet, video game, television, social engagements).
The unexpected does happen, so call to say the reason why you are late or cannot make it.

How to Stop Procrastinating

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References
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Sheehan, D. (2014, January 3). The cure for procrastination. Retrieved from Passion for life,
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Questions?

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