Procrastination
Here's a great article on procrasination on Slate. I'm not as bad as I used to be, but I'm still a rather rampant procrastinator. Some of the suggestions in the article sound pretty good, but I find that sometimes I just need to get my lazy ass out of the chair and do what needs to be done.
Question for the audience: Do you procrastinate? If so, what is it that finally shakes you out of your web-surfing, Zood-playing stupor?
posted by Ryan @ 8:13 a.m.
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While I procrastinate, my anxiety builds because I'm not doing something I'm supposed to be doing. Once the anxiety crosses a threshold [guilt, pressing deadline, etc] I stop what I'm doing and get down to business. Lately though, not even that will stop me. I've discovered that deadlines aren't always hard and fast in grad school which is bad news bears for me because I get lazier, knowing I can get away with talking on messenger and watching picnicface videos on youtube instead of studying.
I'm really bad for procrastinating. I still remember spending the better part of my time browsing Bulgarian real estate when I should've been studying for fourth year exams.
I think (hope) that I'm getting better about this. I'm starting to realize that the only reason that I'm at home with time to kill is that I'm trying to make a leap to a new career - and if it doesn't pan out, I'm going to be right back where I started. (Which was pretty good, just not great.)
So, in the end it will be the Fear that saves me from endless nights of Guitar Hero - same way it was the Fear of repeating 4th year that eventually got me to log off the Interwebs and crack a textbook.
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