Monday, November 29, 2010

Procrastination

There is something to be said about the type of urgency that procrastination creates.  It's chalk full of anxiety, uncomfortableness, and guilt.  We all know the possible implications that are procured from such laziness, but seeing as procrastination is a problem not concerning health, wealth, or other general attributes of well being, its lesson never seems to get learned.  For myself, even if I have a long term assignment that I could work on for ten minutes a week and get done with in time, the mere fact that I have a month, week, or day left is a constant laziness inducing factor.  This is at no fault to the instructors, of course, for most often these assignments are gimmes and I should receive full credit quite easily.  Even now, I have had a blog posting due every week and I waited until the day I am conferencing with my instructor to start posting things.  The only positive spin I can get from this whole experienced is that I have admitted that I have a problem, and in many cases that is the first step.  I do know that I need to light at fire under my you know what before I get a real big boy job.

1 comment:

  1. I understand completely. I have been a bad procrastinator since I was in the early stages of grade school. I think that the one upside to procrastination is the idea that when the time limit is down to hours, the ideas flow better due to the anxiety. I've been trying to get better, but sadly, i'm starting to think it's just genetic...

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