Conquering Procrastination

Finding solutions to procrastination has been a long struggle, just like having daily procrastination itself, but as of today, I have finished all my necessary research and experimenting to provide some pretty valuable data. 

Here I have a link to my data table for different procrastination tips that can help: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zc84N2Q3Fl6O57zxalyJMXSZtW0E89-czT69vgH4BEo/edit?usp=sharing

In the long run, not only have I provided everyone some legitimate methods on how to combat procrastination, I myself have benefited from this experiment as well as the peers I used as my test subjects. Here I have attached some photos of them working hard on their classroom assignments as a result of successfully combatting procrastination: 

I think that I deserve a high grade on this 20-time project because I have executed the experiment just as how a professional scientist or researcher would. I overcame my challenges by coming up with creative and thoughtful solutions, I tested repeatedly and got accurate results, and I can clearly see the impact I've made on the reduced procrastination of me and my peers. 

And yes, I know I already mentioned this, but I also created a very comprehensible spreadsheet to make data easier to understand, and it can be found right here:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zc84N2Q3Fl6O57zxalyJMXSZtW0E89-czT69vgH4BEo/edit?usp=sharing

For my complete journey through the struggle to fight procrastination, you can visit my 20 Time blog at jeffrey20time.blogspot.com

I wish you good luck on your fight against procrastination.

Procrastination Victories- Minute by Minute

Like I mentioned before in my previous few updates, procrastination is something that affects everyone differently, on many different scales. Also, procrastination is a battle that is gradually won. You can't expect to go from finishing your homework at 12:30 AM on average to finishing 5 minutes after school ends. Improvement comes in increments that are often small, but slowly and steadily, procrastination's effects will gradually become innocuous.

Despite the difference in severities of all the procrastination habits that all of my peer test subjects experience, there is consistent improvement being shown with the new tips. As for myself, taking my phone out of the equation really helps a lot. On average, I can do my homework 90 minutes sooner per day if I don't use my phone. From the data I received from my peers, I could see that the tips seem to affect all of us in a similar fashion aside from one or two exceptions.

Another hurdle that I ran into during this procrastination project was that communication between me and my peers was unclear. I would remind them during school to try some method later that afternoon only to find out the next morning that they had either forgot or done something that I did not intend for them to do. But I found a solution to this problem. I know that in this day and age, teenagers are always on facebook 24/7. So I created a procrastination tips facebook chat as a way to remind my peers what was to be done that day. It worked perfectly.

So far, I have already been able to test and average the results of my negative control and 3 other procrastination tips. In the second half of 20 time project work time, I hope to test 4 more tips so that by the end, I would have compiled a list of 7 useful procrastination combatting methods and how effective they are.

Many of the things that I have been able to find useful within conducting this experiment are highly applicable to my daily life. For example, I try not to touch my phone or food after school until I have finished my homework. It's quite amazing how effective I can work without such distractions. In the coming weeks, I hope to find out more methods to combat procrastination in order to both benefit me and my peers.

Procrastination Progress

Procrastination is something very real, and affects everyone at different rates. When I gathered my initial data, I found that the usual time that my test subjects took to finish their homework varied greatly from person to person. I also learned about myself that I tend to not be affected by procrastination as much as others. 

One of my main setbacks was the variability of the amount of homework from day to day. To combat this setback, I have planned to take larger sets of data, like per say, a week of data and take averages for a more accurate and depicting result. 

My next steps are to implement some real procrastination tips and to see how and how much they affect the time it takes for my test subjects to finish their homework. I will then be able to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of these tips based on the quantitative data I will receive. 

If these tests yield positive results, I will be sure to implement them into my own daily life, to maximize my efficiency in doing my homework and having better time management. 

The End of Procrastination???

As you can probably tell from the title, my 20-time project is about finding out good methods on how to stop procrastination and get stuff done. But that begs the question: what is 20-time?

20-time is a methodical project focused on with (as the name suggests) 20% of one's work time and can be based on anything they are passionate about. The time dedicated to 20-time tends to be very efficient due to the fact that it is about something they are passionate about, and will keep them motivated to pursue it. Through utilizing 20-time and another similar idea Genius Hour, Google Inc. was able to motivate their employees to work on projects that really inspired them, and through this fascinatingly creative time of innovation, the employees made Gmail, Google Drive, and many other useful google-related apps and functions.

The essential question I have asked for my 20-time project, what I have based my research and am experimenting on, is how to end, or at least mitigate the effects of procrastination. My project tests various methods that are aimed at getting work done, and by executing these methods as they were intended to be, procrastination rates should theoretically come crashing down. I chose this project and this essential question because during my initial research, I found that a whopping 95% of high school students struggle with procrastination to a certain degree! I feel that it is my goal to do my best to bring down these shockingly high procrastination rates and to lead everybody a step in the positive direction.

I will be experimenting with these methods on various people, and plan to measure the effectiveness of these methods by recording the amount of time it takes for them to finish their homework. On a weekly basis, I will test one specific method and will have averaged results over five days to evaluate how much these methods were able to help my friends. Based on these results, I will know which were the most effective and which had little effect.

I hope that these experiments will really benefit my peers in the long run and that each and every one of you will fight procrastination and win.