Kevin's Watch

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.

--Avatar

Because it's more fun to post on forums?

I'm not; beat myself up too harsh to leave things late.

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.

--A

I'll post my opinion tomorrow.

Only if you have a chance to get around to it Cail.

--A

When I'm feeling particularly lazy I procrastinate with enthusiasm.

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.

This topic is stupid. I'll lock it tomorrow.

-jay

I procrastinate because I am lazy. That's all there is to it.

"Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?"

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.

Syl wrote:Besides, I work better under a pressure.

That's me exactly.

Suuuuucks.

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.

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.

--A

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.

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'm a only kid, so I don't know if that applies.

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?

I'm a procrastinator.

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.

Yes.... I procrastinate.

PS. I voted in the poll six hours ago, and was going to post, but decided to get a drink first...

I meant to reply to this thread right after it was posted.
I think that says enough.

The only thing I usually procrastinate about is housework, which I do not like to do. Otherwise, I usually early with everything.

And I am the youngest of four.