Am I a Procrastinator?

Ringing in this new year, for me, was the biggest new year of my life. I am a senior in high school and this is it for me. From this point forward, I will be an adult. With that scary connotation looming over my head, it is time for me to set goals for myself, resolutions if you will. I am a self proclaimed procrastinator. I put things off to the last minute most every time. As I have grown through my high school career, I have learned that I am quite an intelligent person. I excel at most things, I am a leader, I am thorough, and I am caring for everyone that I meet, but I am constantly scared to fail. I make failing such a scary, almost a life threatening thing. It shakes me to my core. The article I just finished about procrastination has many different possible causes of said procrastination. Of all of the ones listed, the fear of failure jumped out at me. It is the exact reason that I procrastinate. I am fearful that if I fail, I will become unacceptable. I need to resolve to no longer be fearful of this inescapable thing. No matter how hard I try to evade its grasp, I am going to fail and it will stink, but it will only strengthen me for my next inevitable failure. As I understand, and how most self-help programs go, the first step to beating a problem is to look it in the face and recognize it. This is stated in the article as a way to beat you procrastination. Upon recognizing, I have decided that change is not only important in this instance, but necessary. Among other bullets that the articles lists on ways to beat your problem, motivation is one. I am great at motivating others in a positive way, but I have completely overlooked myself in this aspect. A little bit of positive motivation for myself could mean so much! So to change my procrastination problem, I will recognize it and I will start to positively motivate myself to do better and strive for the best, while realizing that failure is not the worst thing that can happen. Now that I have some great steps going, I took the time to look for some videos of people who can help with fear of failure. I found this one: 

and i found this one: 

Both of these videos were very helpful and changed my perspective quite a lot. Check them out!