Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Procrastination - How to Get Things Done
Goodhousekeeping.com: "I procrastinate horribly — not about everything, just about phone calls. Sometimes I put off making dinner reservations until all I can get is a 10 p.m. slot at my third-favorite restaurant. I regularly run out of prescriptions because I can’t manage to phone the pharmacy for refills. I dial my mother so rarely that, when I do, she thinks someone died. For no reason I can understand, the prospect of making even a mundane phone call leaves me overwhelmed. Procrastinating over such a simple task seems crazy — but research shows that most of us are busily not doing things every day."
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These seemed like some good suggestions for ways to approach tasks. I agree that the people who do not procrastinate actually get their work done faster and better than those who do. I also find myself many times losing the time that would usually be the fun time to the procrastinating time. It is a personal deception to think that planning can substitute for doing or is getting you anywhere closer to doing. I think that sometimes the line gets blurred because a lot of my work is planning but I can still tell what is planning and what is actually accomplishing something.
I feel like this is the relaxed guide to curing procrastination especially in the end when the woman talks about how she can start over again on her diet. This seems like a good plan for people who have a hard time sticking to a commitment. And those tend to be the people who procrastinate. It takes away a lot of the scary pressure.
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