The There-are-too-many-things-I-still-have-to-do-so-I-start-doing-none-of-them-instead-problem

Main causes: school, lack of discipline

Summary of the weekends:

Saturday - 15:00

It starts already in the weekend, mostly on Saturday, when you take a first look in your diary of next week. You notice your teachers decided to give all tests of different subjects exactly at the same time and are not aware of the fact you have a life outside of school too. Frightened you close it immediately and start doing something else instead. While the day passes you try not to think about how much work you still have to do and try not to feel guilty for not doing anything, by making excuses - I haven't done anything for school, but I did some grocery shopping and cleaned up my room instead!

Sunday - 12:00

You wake up on Sundaymorning and you feel it. It's that feel of today is the day and there is no way to procrastinate anything, since everything is due Monday. You open your diary and cry a little. After that you take a picture and send it to all of your friends so they can feel sorry for you.

Sunday - 17:00 

When you're finally ready to start the work it's already five o'clock and you start to stress out. You will never make it in time! You cry one more time and relax a little, since you cannot work under pressure.

Sunday – 19:00

You have to define your priorities. There is no way you can do all the work, so you have to choose between the different subjects. As a result some of your teachers will hate you for not defining their subject as a priority and you’ll get a bad grade for the test (unless your multitalented and have superpowers, then everything will be OK).

Relatable?

-Yes, this is one of the worst problems in life and unfortunately one of the most common. à Keep on reading, there is hope.

-No, I am a perfect student, I always start doing my homework a week before it’s due in order to keep my Sundays free for playing chess with my dearest family. à Quit reading this blog, you’re wasting your time.

Solution

In order to find the solution we have to take in consideration the main causes; which are school and a lack of discipline. The first cause is unchangeable, so we’ll leave that aside. The lack of discipline is something you should work on, but is very hard. Another option is to go through all the underlined phases more quickly, and you’ll have enough time to finish everything. So instead of stressing out for two hours, you stress out for two minutes, and move on to the next phase. This way you’ll be through your phases in half an hour and you’ll have time to do everything. J