By the end of one week, you'll have spent at least an hour on the task, and you may have found that it's not quite as horrible as you thought. By spending only a few minutes each day, you are accomplishing a small and therefore less intimidating task, one that is less likely to get put off. Once you are involved and maybe even interested in the task, you may be motivated to spend more time on it. Be cautious, however. Very large tasks such as a thesis require larger blocks of time, but manageable, daily periods of work are the key, while starting early helps ensure that due dates will be met.
Students often blame their problems with procrastination on laziness or a lack of self discipline.
However, the cause is usually not as simple as that. For example, there is an interesting connection between procrastination and perfectionism. Students for whom nothing less than an A will do may procrastinate on an assignment so that when their mark is not up to their standard, they can blame it on the fact that they did the assignment in a hurry. Procrastination can sometimes be an indication of a fear of failure, or of disappointing family. Sometimes it is a symptom of a lack of motivation, the loss of a sense of purpose for being at university.