Procrastinating till you have all the notes or planning too much

There are hidden ways in which people procrastinate such as spending too much time planning & preparing. Waiting for notes or spending hours planning or organizing material may be a way to justify procrastination. A student procrastinates and rationalizes that he/she will study adequately after all the notes are there. This wastes time. Procrastination is about delaying some perceived anxiety about a future event (in this case, the overwhelming nature of study material put together). This is a self-fulfilling prophecy^[11]. The student is making the studies more overwhelming by delaying them and then is likely to worry and complain about the overwhelming amount of study material. It would be easier for a student to study in small chunks as and when they have their materials ready.

A common misconception: People think that procrastination is a time-management problem. It isn’t. Procrastination is about poor emotional regulation regarding future events.

Study tip: Focus on what you can do instead of what might happen. Thinking of worst-case scenarios makes your fears true when they shouldn’t be true. Here are emotional regulation tips to kill the procrastination habit.