Youth Empowerment Studio (YES!) in collaboration with Central Public Mental Health (CPMH) held a Webinar with the topic “Procrastination and Time Management” on Friday (2/7). YES! is one of the units in the CPMH education cluster, Faculty of Psychology UGM which has a vision to spread and campaign on the importance of mental health among teenagers. Webinars hosted by YES! this time it is a series of events in welcoming the 2021 summer lecture series held by CPMH on 19 July-4 August 2021.
This webinar was speaker by Anggit Nursasmito, S.Psi and Almira Salsabila Wicahyanto and Satria Farqi Kilali as moderator. This event was held online and was attended by 105 participants from various circles, such as high school students, college students, teenagers, and so on. In addition, this event started at 13.00 WIB and ended at 15.00 WIB with the distribution of the first session for discussing procrastination and the second session for discussing time management.
The topic of procrastination was raised because it can be experienced by anyone, ranging from students and students to people who are already working. Procrastination is a behavior that is carried out by someone in delaying, buying time, and even deliberately avoiding doing something even though it is important and will have a negative impact.
There are five stages of procrastination that can be experienced by a person, starting from avoidance behavior and feeling safe that arises from avoidance behavior (false security). After avoiding, there will be a feeling that there is still plenty of time to complete the task or work (laziness). Furthermore, it continues by looking for reasons not to complete a task or a job (excuses) and the more delaying the work the more depressed (crisis or pressure) which leads to feelings of frustration because the task is not over (frustrated).
There are two factors that can protect oneself from procrastination or called protective factors and risk factors which consist of things that make a person prone to procrastination. One of the things that can protect a person from procrastinating is GRIT which is a combination of passion and persistence, “so to complete a task you also need fighting power and endurance”, explained Almira. Meanwhile, the risk factors consist of negative perspective, anxiety, low level of self identity, time orientation, and time preference.
One of the other things that also helps a person not to procrastinate is time management, “or even more here it is not time management, but self-management about time. So know yourself first, about what kind of person you are in completing a task or job,” explained Anggit. In addition, time management also has a positive impact, such as reducing anxiety, providing a balance between life and work, reducing feelings of overload and workload, as one of the basic steps to developing good study habits, maintaining physical health, and maintaining focus on a job or task.