Procrastination
Oh, how I am absolutely notorious with this.. My bittersweet, guilty pleasure! And at most times completely unaware that I do it or that I 'm subconsciously sabotaging myself to defer whatever it is that I should be doing.
To procrastinate is to delay or postpone action. Some might even use the word lazy to describe someone that has a habit of this. A procrastinator rarely ever does nothing but rather always doing something (little, tedious, time consuming, mostly unimportant things) to avoid doing the more important task that should to be getting completed.
As I ponder about it, I 'm brought to my most recent encounter that occurred just last week. Seeing that procrastinator is my middle name, of course it would happen that the deadline to submit my income taxes arrived and I had yet to have it completed. I called my tax Preparer who readily prepared my paperwork for me to pickup. We set up an appointment for me to meet with her husband to get my documents and yet again I was running late as usual. As I struggle with prioritizing and completing things in a timely manner, I also struggle with being on time. My husband points out how some people put words on their cars making a statement about themselves. He used to always say that he was going to put "Always Late" on my car because it fits me. I would …show more content…
Well it 's quite simple, I continue to talk to myself like a crazy person and out loud, let me add (luckily I 'm still in my car so no one sees me), but it all stems back to..you guessed it procrastination! If I had prioritized, managed my time wisely, and not put my taxes off until the last minute like I do everything else, I could of absolutely avoided all of this.
While surfing the web I came across a quote by an anonymous author that I feel really sums this up perfectly, "Procrastinating is a lot like masturbating... at first it feels good, but in the end your only screwing
Oh, how I am absolutely notorious with this.. My bittersweet, guilty pleasure! And at most times completely unaware that I do it or that I 'm subconsciously sabotaging myself to defer whatever it is that I should be doing.
To procrastinate is to delay or postpone action. Some might even use the word lazy to describe someone that has a habit of this. A procrastinator rarely ever does nothing but rather always doing something (little, tedious, time consuming, mostly unimportant things) to avoid doing the more important task that should to be getting completed.
As I ponder about it, I 'm brought to my most recent encounter that occurred just last week. Seeing that procrastinator is my middle name, of course it would happen that the deadline to submit my income taxes arrived and I had yet to have it completed. I called my tax Preparer who readily prepared my paperwork for me to pickup. We set up an appointment for me to meet with her husband to get my documents and yet again I was running late as usual. As I struggle with prioritizing and completing things in a timely manner, I also struggle with being on time. My husband points out how some people put words on their cars making a statement about themselves. He used to always say that he was going to put "Always Late" on my car because it fits me. I would …show more content…
Well it 's quite simple, I continue to talk to myself like a crazy person and out loud, let me add (luckily I 'm still in my car so no one sees me), but it all stems back to..you guessed it procrastination! If I had prioritized, managed my time wisely, and not put my taxes off until the last minute like I do everything else, I could of absolutely avoided all of this.
While surfing the web I came across a quote by an anonymous author that I feel really sums this up perfectly, "Procrastinating is a lot like masturbating... at first it feels good, but in the end your only screwing