Your professor just assigned you to research and write a 12 page paper. even though you don’t really want to do it, you force yourself to sit at the computer, search for peer-reviewed articles, and write your paper. you are demonstrating

Self-Regulation

Explanation:

Self regulation is the ability of a person to put aside their feelings and their desires, in order to be able to commit to long term goals and achieve them, in this case you dont really want to work and have no desire to start the research paper, but your ability to set aside those feelings and start working is what we call Self Regulation.