My teacher for my social work class gave us a gigantic paper, in which we needed to read and extremely long article and write a four page paper on the article with insight on each topic that the article addressed. Well, reading is not exactly my strong point, so I don’t usually do much of it. The thought of reading an overwhelmingly long article and trying to remember everything in the article, and then writing a four paged paper seemed both time consuming and hard. This would usually turn me off from doing a good job on the assignment, or sometimes even doing the assignment at all. But I decided to conquer my intent to do so and looked to the Dues and Dos Organizer. I started by writing out dates where I had to do a part of the assignment. I split up the reading to about every other day and made sure that by the end of those days I would be done with the article. This took about eight days. I looked at the eight days and saw I had to read so frequently and this overwhelmed me a bit, but I got through it and by the end of the eight days I was finished with the article. It also helped to spread the reading out because I was able to retain information in little bits at a time, so it stuck in my head. Seeing that I was able to get the reading done gave me the confidence to write myself due dates for the rest of the time I had to do the project. My assignment is not due yet, however I don’t even look at it that way anymore. I gave myself little amounts to do over a fairly long period of time. This way, I will never sit at my desk and look at a huge assignment and feel as if I need to do it all in one sitting, or two sittings. I haven’t finished the assignment yet, but I have a good feeling about it. My next assignment is to write the introduction to my paper. Knowing that the next time I sit down to work on the project that I only have to write the introduction, the project seems a lot less overwhelming. Writing down the times that I need to do the reading worked well, so I am almost positive this paper will turn out well. I’m extremely proud of myself for cutting right into my problem or procrastination and feeling overwhelmed before a big paper or test, and found myself a solution, so far