Time waster and My Poem Reads Dandy

Hi, all! How was your weekend? Thanksgiving is coming and it seems everybody is waiting for it!!

This week, I used Time Wasters to trace the reasons for procrastination and think about what I can do eliminate the bad effects. Procrastination is my really big problem recently and I really need a anti-procastination strategy right now. In order to know whether Time Wasters is beneficial for me, I tried this strategy this week.

After listing down the time wasters and avoided tasks for me, I found in most of the situation I procrastinated is because I felt overwhelmed or I did not finish what I should do before and I began to have those interruptions. This strategy helps me to realize what are the causes of my procrastination so I decided to think about how I can do in order to anti-procastinate. So the other anti-procrastination strategies came to my mind, why not use 10-minute strategy and chunking the tasks together after Time Waster? I can chunk those long and boring tasks into small, achievable and productive assignments and then assign 10 minute for each one. This strategy is effective for me and it helps me to define my personal reasons for procrastination and come up with a personal solution with procrastination.

The second strategy I applied this week is My Poem Reads Dandy, another reading strategy described in the textbook. I used this strategy for my accounting class, because the professor covered a lot materials in the class and I thought I could not handle them very effectively and I have a conceptual quiz next week so I have to review this chapter this week, and another reason I chose this strategy is I am a kinesthetic learner and I need to do something in order to learn it very well.

Measure

I had 40 pages to read and I could do 10 pages at a time so I assign the whole task into four times.

Preview

I previewed the chapter by looking at the summary and organization and then I got a overview of this chapter.

Read

When I read the chapter each time, I highlighted the concepts I need to remember in order to create my review notes in the next step.

Draw

I did not draw a graphic organizer as it was described because I think I am not a good artist and it takes more time to think before drawing. Because I am a linear learner so I used a more simple and clear way to summarize those concepts and conclude their relationships in this chapter. Here is what I do:

It is beneficial for me to use this strategy this week and I found another way to review the materials and because it combines with chucking the tasks and study aids so it is helpful for me to finish reading the whole chapter and prepare for next quiz.