Procrastination
May. 20th, 2004 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hellisonThis really is my biggest sin and its a terrible thing. Putting off things til tomorrow is one thing, but in my case, tomorrow never seems to come, so things drift on and on until it all goes haywire.
An example - I just realised I've been carrying around the electricity bill since I got home from oz, to post off the monies. It was overdue when I got home nearly 6 weeks ago ffs. I have the bill, my cheque book, stamps, everything right there and I don't do anything, because I look at it EVERY DAY and think 'I'll do that later'.
And thats just one of many many things, all of which could come crashing down very soon... but somehow the days drift past without me noticing.
It's like a bizarre version of groundhog day. In my HEAD it's the same day over and over again, but the time for the rest of the world keeps moving on without me and I end up running like fuck to catch up with it when I realise.
Or rather I look up say 'shit I should start running now. I'll do it later' and lapse back into 'meh'.
So! I am going to use this whole LJ thing to try and keep a track of the days so I can see the time pass - I had to check the calendar to see how long it was since i got home from oz. I honestly thought it was about 3 weeks and I have no idea where the rest of the time went, it's lost in a haze of apathy.
An example - I just realised I've been carrying around the electricity bill since I got home from oz, to post off the monies. It was overdue when I got home nearly 6 weeks ago ffs. I have the bill, my cheque book, stamps, everything right there and I don't do anything, because I look at it EVERY DAY and think 'I'll do that later'.
And thats just one of many many things, all of which could come crashing down very soon... but somehow the days drift past without me noticing.
It's like a bizarre version of groundhog day. In my HEAD it's the same day over and over again, but the time for the rest of the world keeps moving on without me and I end up running like fuck to catch up with it when I realise.
Or rather I look up say 'shit I should start running now. I'll do it later' and lapse back into 'meh'.
So! I am going to use this whole LJ thing to try and keep a track of the days so I can see the time pass - I had to check the calendar to see how long it was since i got home from oz. I honestly thought it was about 3 weeks and I have no idea where the rest of the time went, it's lost in a haze of apathy.
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Date: 2004-05-20 03:07 am (UTC)I get great satisfaction from ticking things off a list (possibly why I enjoyed fixing typos on the mud so much!), so maybe it will work.
Lets hope so...
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Date: 2004-05-20 06:02 am (UTC)however i have (briefly) been set into ACTION and am off out to pay bills, go to bank etc
yay me!
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Date: 2004-05-20 06:09 am (UTC)Perhaps the solution is to post about how you never do anything in your live journal!
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Date: 2004-05-20 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-20 10:07 am (UTC)1) make list.
Then you get to cross something off immediately, thus tricking your mind into thinking you did something :P
I just put stuff into my outlook and refuse to cancel the alarms until I do it. Or tell Summer who nags me til I do it.
Sal