I've been putting off making this thread for days, but I finally had to talk about it.
What the hell is up with the whole procrastination thing? I know we've got some champion procrastinators here at the Watch, so maybe we can all get together and figure it out.
I'm a procrastinator. I'm a terrible procrastinator. I put things off 'til the last minute. Everything. I leave things so late that it sometimes hurts me because I left it so late. (As in it creates an additional disadvantage.)
I know I do it. I know that there is no reason to do it. I know that if I just did whatever it was straight away, my life would be so much easier. And I know it's nobodies fault but my own.
So why the hell can't I get over it? No matter how often I tell myself, this time, I'm just gonna do it and get it done, (whatever it may be), I still end up thinking, "Oh, I'll do it later. Just now. When I finish this book/post/cigarette/whatever." And so it goes.
Is it like some phobia about actually doing things? I don't know. Let's put our collective heads to this one, because I find it not only irritating, (because it often leads to even more work for no purpose), but inexplicable.
Why do we procrastinate? Seriously.
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Because it's more fun to post on forums? 
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May that's part of it LoreMaster. I tend to beat myself up infrequently, if at all. Enough other people are willing to do it that I don't need to bother.
And sure MsMary, that's part of it. But it's scarcely something I've been doing only since discovering the forum.
This has been a life-long issue for me, and one no manner of coercion, insistence or order has been able to dent.
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And sure MsMary, that's part of it. But it's scarcely something I've been doing only since discovering the forum.
This has been a life-long issue for me, and one no manner of coercion, insistence or order has been able to dent.
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I'll post my opinion tomorrow.
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You know I am, Av. Wish I could give you a reason. I blame it on my mom. 
Besides, I work better under a pressure, and I like a challenge.
Besides, I work better under a pressure, and I like a challenge.
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I procrastinate because I am lazy. That's all there is to it.
"Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?"
"Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?"
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What is everyone here's birth order?
I'm the youngest and I know I'll be late to my own funeral.
The baby is usually the procrastinator.
I'm the youngest and I know I'll be late to my own funeral.
The baby is usually the procrastinator.
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I don't procrastinate. I get things done before they're due. Last week I didn't have time to do something at work, and I woke up at 3 AM on the one day I didn't need to wake up at 3 AM because I thought I'd missed the deadline. 
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Yeah, same here. I tell myself I am going to get certain stuff done today, and then I find some distraction, like the internet, or a book, and before I know it, it's too late to start what I had planned for today, so I tell myself I will do it tomorrow.Avatar wrote:And sure MsMary, that's part of it. But it's scarcely something I've been doing only since discovering the forum.
This has been a life-long issue for me, and one no manner of coercion, insistence or order has been able to dent.
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I'm a only kid, so I don't know if that applies.High Lord Tolkien wrote:What is everyone here's birth order?
I'm the youngest and I know I'll be late to my own funeral.
The baby is usually the procrastinator.
I am convinced that not only will I be late to my funeral, I will wake up, look at the clock and decide to give the whole thing a miss because, really, why drive all that way just to see the last 20 minutes?
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard... and too damn cheap." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
I'm a procrastinator BIG TIME! And I beat myself up about it regularly...which doesn't seem to work as I am still as bad now as I was 5 years ago.
I think I procrastinate because I'm lazy. Sometimes I procrastinate because I'm full of fear or self doubt which ends up crippling me. In such situations, if I leave things until the last moment then I don't have time to get caught up in my fear of failure. Sometimes I'm sure I enjoy the adrenalin rush that's associated with leaving things until the last moment. I just work better under stress. I'm a "deadline" kinda gal.
I think I procrastinate because I'm lazy. Sometimes I procrastinate because I'm full of fear or self doubt which ends up crippling me. In such situations, if I leave things until the last moment then I don't have time to get caught up in my fear of failure. Sometimes I'm sure I enjoy the adrenalin rush that's associated with leaving things until the last moment. I just work better under stress. I'm a "deadline" kinda gal.
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Otherwise, I usually early with everything. 