Some advice I can really embrace!
All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
Hear that sound? That’s my big sigh of relief. Read it all and you’ll give a big sigh, too.
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I was going to leave a really witty comment in response to the whole procrastination thing, but I think I’ll wait until tomorrow instead.
I had a buddy who used to say, “If I cared more, I’d be apathetic.” Wow, is that ringing true lately.
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow–those are words to live by! Thanks for the funny article!
hhmm, sloth, one of the seven deadly sins.
I think I’m totally busted.