#6 how to feel good about procrastinating

i'm a procrastinator and i've known it for a long time. i felt that leaving to-dos till the last minute allowed maximum relax time and minimal work time. and honestly, who doesn't want to work less? unless you're a stupid, of course.

actually, till recently i believed that procrastination was like trying to lick your own elbows - a pointless practice. but now, i think of procrastination as licking honey-chocolate off of catherine-zeta jones' face. and everyone can agree that honey-chocolate is good. but not if you have too much of it. just like procrastination.

my wife is the opposite of a procrastinator - like having a comb-over is the opposite of having dignity. but we don't really clash when things need to get done, because she knows that i'll get it done, eventually. and i know that when something is important enough, i'll have to do it now, rather than later. point being: things will get done either way.

like studying for a test. if you put it off till later, you'll end up with the same result as a person who didn't procrastinate - a grade. eventually, procrastination gets the job done. everything ends up completed. it might not be completed properly, but at least it gets done. and now you can feel good about procras...i'll type it in later, damn long word.



saturday musings

ps. you tried it, didn't you? you tried to lick your own elbows. well, don't feel ashamed. at least no one saw you try.

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