Procrastination is part of human nature. But the biggest price of procrastination is that you are unable to complete some valuable things that you clearly have the desire and ability for. Many children with immature concentration when faced with something that requires sustained mental effort, such as doing homework, their minds will halt. At the same time, many things that can be said to be important but not urgent pop up in their minds.
For example, when they open a math exercise book and prepare to fill in the first number, they think of important (but not urgent) things, such as checking the number of new worldwide COVID-19 cases today on the Internet, or the energy label of household appliances. To the world, these things are indeed more important than math problems, but math homework should be more urgent. Therefore, we need to develop a good habit of figuring out the priorities of things. The order in which you do things is very important. Doing homework first and then playing computer games, or playing computer games first and then doing homework. The two orders have a huge difference in their impact on academic performance. Ask yourself all the time, what is your first priority at this moment? To find the priority task, a good way is to make a task list (on the paper, only list these three tasks; after completing an item, cross it out. After completing them all, you can dump the piece of paper). After all the tasks on the list are completed, you can relax and celebrate for a bit.
Written by: Dr. William Chui
Translated by: Cheuk Long Chan
