Procrastination, my weakness.

One great weakness of mine is procrastination, which means that I tend to put off important things until it's almost too late; thus in some cases it can lead to bad results. I remembered that when I was in primary school, during every summer and winter holidays, I always avoided to working on my assignment until just a few days before the beginning of the next term, and then I just finished it very hastily.
I had read a few psychological articles about this, and it is said that my particular type of procrastination is caused by inappropriate judgement of self-worth and lack of ability in handling failures. People with this type of issue think the result of their action indicates their abilities and furthermore represents their self-worth. By postponing the action, they would consider that the connection between ability and result is broken, because they can blame not getting enough time for any bad result on not getting enough time. Procrastination is also a type of self-handicapping, which means people set obstacles to for themselves to prevent success because of the fear of failure.
Long story short, some people who believe that the result of their action is equal to their self-worth are so afraid of failure that they tend to find or make any excuse to blame it on. One of the excuses is limited time, which can be easily approached by just waiting and doing nothing—procrastination.

(This is very well-written! I had no problem understanding, because the corrections are very minor. Great discussion of a complex topic. I suffer from the same procrastination problem, as well, so I can relate! -Angela)