A Terrible Habit

School has been so much work lately and I make it so much harder for myself. All year I have been telling myself that when I get an assignment I have to start it early and finish it early as well. Honestly, I probably finished about 3 assignments earlier than the day before they were due, and this includes my first english paper, a speech and a dny paper. Everything else usually waits to the night before which is a terrible habit that I desperately need to get out of. It's not that I don't do good waiting for the last minute, because I do. I actually feel as if I do better under pressure knowing that something has to be done. If I do something early I get easily distracted or I'll stop and go back to it later, but when I'm doing something the last minute I concentrate really well because I know it has to get done, and it has to get done that day.
It's not that I only do this with homework, but I do it with tests as well. That is something that I have to stop doing ASAP. Ever since I was young my parents always yelled at me about this and told me that it's a really bad habit and to get out of it, but it's really hard.
School isn't the only place which I procrastinate doing things in. At home my parents yell at me to clean my room and that is one thing that I really despise doing, so I wait until I can't tolerate the mess anymore and then I'll clean it. I do this with laundry as well. I'll wait until someone needs to wear something thats in the dirty clothes to wash it because I know that they are going to need it.
I know it's something really bad that I have to stop doing. Hopefully I'll start and the work load that I have won't seem like so much because it will space things out a little bit.