Procrastination

I have a huge problem with procrastination. As I've progressed in my career and earned myself the ability to work more independently, I find myself more and more inclined to just keep pushing this shit off. I pulled an all nighter last night because I had to catch up on some work that I had been pushing off for weeks for no good reason. To be honest it's a nasty habit that I've had pretty much my whole life. I remember back in high school there were many times where I would keep procrastinating doing any studying at all until it was way too late then either stay home "sick" the next day or come up with a way to cheat through the test or project. I probably would have benefited in the long run from this biting me in the ass big time when I was younger and would fail a test or something when the stakes were lower but somehow it hasn't. Anyone have any advice on how I can establish healthier working habits?

Deathwing_sl said:

Also, I think Parkinson's Law is partly to blame here. You know the task won't take X hours, so you procrastinate for a bit, get the work done, but still feel bad for procrastinating.

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eh i don't know. now that i'm thinking back on shit i've done in order to not to work some of it is pretty extreme. here's a few that come to mind:

- in high school i had to read and do a project on the Hunchback of Notre Dame. of course i didn't read it, or even bother reading the cliff notes. the morning the project was due, i finally got around to copying and pasting some Alice and Chains lyrics and calling it "poetry" inspired by the book. i got a C+. i'll take it.

- Spring semester my senior year of high school i was taking a psychology elective. we had to write a 10 page paper. of course i couldn't be bothered. i asked a friend of mind who had taken the class the previous year to send me her paper and i'd use it as a "guide" and change the wording and stuff. well, i couldn't even be bothered to do that, so i just turned it in as is hoping the teacher was too stupid to realize. he wasn't, and he failed me. however, i had already taken a social sciences credit that year so i didn't need his class to graduate and the only consequence was that i ended up with another free period.

- there were multiple times where i would put off writing a paper by converting a winzip playlist file to .doc and emailing it to my teachers. of course they are all so technologically inept they would assume they screwed the file up when it comes up as gibberish and tell me to resend it in a few when they figure it out.




anyone got some others to share?

fuck i just said some real dumb shit on a conference call because i haven't sleep in 36 hours. hope i don't get fired.