I'll Do It Tomorrow...

When I was a First Year Resident Advisor (FYRA), I learned that a bunch of my residents identified themselves as having difficulties with procrastination.  What was funny to me was that I also have issues with procrastination.  So in order to procrastinate my homework, I made this bulletin board about procrastination.

Just to make sure that everyone knows what's going on, if you see a bulletin board from me, you'll notice that the backgrounds are usually newspaper.  I used newspaper for my backgrounds because it was a sustainable way of using the school papers or the neighborhood papers that ended up recycled anyway and also because we used to get extra points for being sustainable in the completion of our bulletin boards.  Oh, and because it was easier for me to color coordinate the rest of my board if the background was black and white.

"I'll Do It Tomorrow..."

Materials and Resources:
-  die cut letters for the title
-  colored paper for the backgrounds
-  Google for the information
-  scissors
-  stapler and staples
-  optional: fun fonts (for this one I used Happy Phantom)

The definition of procrastination which you'll see to the right of the title.

Each of the four larger sheets of paper bordered in purple are information that I found by creative Google use.

Why Do I Procrastinate?

Four Sections:
-  Do I Procrastinate Too Much?  --  if the reader agrees with 5 or more of the 12 statements on this list, the reader procrastinates excessively
-  Why Do I Procrastinate?  --  a list of the 8 most common reasons for procrastination
-  How Can I Stop Procrastinating?  --  15 tips for kicking procrastination
-  Procrastination Rationalizations  --  10 arguments a procrastinator needs to argue against to kick the habit

The fun stuff: cartoons

To make the information more interesting, I included cartoons that I found by creatively Google searching.  Not an exact science, though there are a couple places that you should be able to find a good amount of procrastination cartoons, PhD Comics should have quite a few.  I also used Pearls before Swine, a demotivational poster, and Hyperbole and a Half.

AND because I love quotes, I included a bunch of quotes about procrastination and deadlines, these are some of my favorites:

"I love deadlines.  Especially the whooshing sound they make as they pass by." - Douglas Adams

"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week." - Spanish Proverb

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." - Mark Twain

And there you have it, a really great bulletin board about procrastination that's really quite simple to put together.  Make it pretty, have some fun, and your residents will love it!

Cheers,
Brianna