I'm All Over!!!!

I'm back this week with a new strategy. This week, I tried the COST Strategy, which stands for Change Option Schedule Test.

My problem is that I have multiple assignments due at ALL times. Whenever I want to get started on an assignment, I do, but than procrastinate to start a DIFFERENT assignment!!! I can never finish one, and I lose track of the thoughts I previously had with the other assignment. For example, I had an essay to for Writing 105, and in the midst of writing the essay when I got a bit stuck, I found myself starting my Philosophy 192 homework. I tried to go back to t

he essay, and it took me tw

ice as long to do the second half of it as it did for the first half!!! I am tired of this problem, so I decided to try the COST strategy. I wrote it out on a piece of a paper, but I do not have the neatest handwriting, so I typed it up for all the people reading this.

Change:

Whenever I have an assignment to do, I start doing it, but than move onto a different assignment before I completed the other one. This stresses me out, and I want to organize myself to finish one assignment before I start the second one.

Option:

I thought of two different options I could try. My first option was to try the time audit strategy. I would write out each day what I should accomplish, and see if that helps me not to procrastinate. The second option I thought of was the target planner. This way I could break up an assignment, and instead of writing different dates that I would do of each one, I could write the time of the day. I ended up using the the target pl

anner, because I know myself and realistically, I would not follow a schedule of a day that had a task every hour of the day.

Schedule:

I made the schedule for the next day. I was able to see the results after one day.

Test:

The problem definitely did improve. I was able to complete each assignment before I started the other, so I accomplished my goal. The target planner was the right option to go with.

This strategy was a big difference maker for me. A had a problem, so I used a problem solving strategy. I tried the COST strategy, and it worked. If someone out there has the same problem as me, read this post, take my advice, and try the COST strategy.