So, as of late the following two quotes seem to speak best to my overall work ethic:
*Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. ~Robert Benchley
*Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James
I honestly, just do not feel like doing anything! At some point, the sheer amount of work that I have to do seems to paralyze me. Knowing that I have to grade tons of papers and tests, do research for my doctoral work, plan my next technology workshop, pay my bills, clean my house, make it to the gym, and the million other errands that are on my to do list--is just paralyzing me. What's comical about this paralysis is that I am in full awareness that I have these tasks to complete and am also in full awareness that I just don't feel like doing it. So, ladies and gentleman, this is what we call Procrastination. I am not often a procrastinator (In fact, I am highly organized and generally very task oriented), I merely dabble in the art when the to-do list becomes overwhelming.
So--this catharsis forces me to stop procrastinating and proceed to make a to-do list for my to-do list. Break the larger tasks into smaller, more manageable tasks---and GET IT DONE! The plan is to have almost ALL of the above mentioned tasks complete by this coming Friday (which does not leave me much time). I am wondering--what will have to give---sleep? tv? social networking? working out? Nope--not this time. The responsible procrastinator realizes that some of the tasks can be delayed to next week's to-do list! =)
I can completely agree with you that procrastinating is an issue that many of us face. Even though I like to call myself an "organized person" too I always end up waiting till the last minute to get assignments done, especially homework.
ReplyDeleteI am such a procrastinator in all honesty. I will tell myself that I am going to do something and then I will not feel like it and just leave it to the last second. I think just handling school work and a few other things is difficult, I can not imagine how difficult it must be to juggle all of your tasks and to finally get them done. It is truly a relief when you have put something off for a while and have finally gotten it done.
ReplyDeleteI can definitely be a procrastinator at times, but this year not as much. All the work in my Jr. year and the college search gets very overwhelming, and this year I have definitely learned not to procrastinate much since I have so much work to keep up with,but I still end up losing sleep. Last year I used to put projects off to the last couple of days, but this year I learned to do a little bit of work each day, it helps a lot, and makes you feel much more relaxed knowing that you don't always have to so much work left to do, but I agree the burden of an undone task is a bad feeling.
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