Procrastination
I’ve been procrastinating a lot lately. I’ve been procrastinating on doing my laundry, completing my to do list, packing for my move/roadtrip. I’ve been procrastinating a lot by watching Design Star and surfing the web and generally avoiding all the things I need to do to make the next month or so run smoothly for myself. And what am I doing now? Blogging. Clearly I don’t want to get anything done today either.
Which leaves everything for me to do tomorrow, since I’m leaving on Thursday for San Fransisco/Oakland. Really that’s fine because there isn’t much to do in terms of actual physical labor. Because I don’t own much I need to do a single load of laundry and then pack my things up. Easy. But I am procrastinating and leaving that until tomorrow.
Beside my packing, I really have a lot of other things I need to be doing. Last night I made a long list of things that still need to get done either before the roadtrip or before moving to New Zealand. That list is a bit random and includes things like buying travel health insurance, creating a list of business books to read, finding a place to stay for one night in LA, further researching self employment retirement options, and writing blog posts to post while I’m on the road. I’m not sure why I’m procrastinating when I have so much on my list of things to do today.
I’ve always had a problem with procrastination. I’m not the kind of person that gets things done way ahead of time, even though I wish I was that person. I’m most definitely the person that finishes things right before they need to be done. I remember when I was creating my ebook, I was putting finishing touches on it right before I was set to release it (just cosmetic stuff, the content is solid). I remember in college I would write my papers timed perfectly so they would be finished right before needing to be handed in. I always have procrastinated and then stressed myself out trying to finish things before they are do. For some reason I avoid stress in most areas of my life, but still create it for myself when I procrastinate.
But I want to change. I want to stop procrastinating. So I’m going to start making my lists again – my to do list for today is the first in a long time – and then getting them done. Life is too short and I’ve got way too much to do to let procrastination keep winning. I’m turning over a new leaf and no longer procrastinating. I’m going to get things done.. which means I need to stop blogging my declaration of war on procrastination and actually go get things done. So have a good day!
Ooh I am DEF a procrastinator. I didn’t used to be for school. I always had my papers done way ahead of time. Id always be up the night before studying, but not because I hadnt been studying for days before. Just because I was a perfectionist. Now that I don’t have grades on things, I don’t feel the need to get things done ahead of time, and so I procrastinate. I have not even unpacked fully from my vacation the other week! I just also have a hard time with time. I tend to not have any concept of it. So I think ok im gonna do this and then next thought I have of it, I don’t realize months and months have gone by. Everythings always ‘last week’ or ‘yesterday’ lol. Good luck w getting the stuff done for the trip.