I can't say that I'm a procrastinator, although I'm worse than I used to be. It used to be that I would have my term paper completed before the class was half over. I am not quite that ambitious anymore, but I'm usually the first one done with something.
I'm a bit of a perfectionist with papers and big projects... so I put them off until the last few days just so I don't dedicate TOO MUCH time to them trying to make them **perfect**. So.... I think about the project, and don't start working on it until I begin getting **worried** about it.
Maybe that's why I'm not moving on my projects... they're all thought out, but I'm not WORRIED yet!
I knew a professor in school. She couldn't write if her pens were exactly the same color and her pencils the same length. She went on and on about achieving the perfect conditions to write to her class. Which is why it took her literally 15 years to finish her dissertation. I just sit down and start writing. I never could see that whole 'needing the perfect conditions in an imperfect world.
I'm more of a "I need to do this, so let's get cracking and get it over with' person.
Yes, ma'am. I too have days where I have to tell myself that I can't check out today and tomorrow isn't good either and it's what keeps me putting one foot in front of the other.
I just wish I could feel motivated for the bullshit maintenance stuff. Dishes and laundry, man! Dusting? Fuggitdaboutit!
It takes me at least an hour to convince myself to do 10 minutes of dishes. I'll stand in front of the sink going, "Oh... dishes...." and then just walk away... over and over and over... until I am so hypnotized by the pattern I actually reach in and START DOING THEM.
I am such a pain in my own ass!
Sometimes I wish for the Type A drive that says, "Do it! Check it off the list! ACCOMPLISH!!"
I'm a bit like that too. What stops me is not having worked out the bits and pieces. But as I get older I get better at knowing which bits I can totally wing it, and which bits I need to know beforehand.
Hey bloody humidity and smoke alarms and being too short to turn them off. Totally been there.
For me... all that are left are those bits and pieces I know I *can't* figure out until I have the project in my hands.
I plan for the frustration of hammering out things I don't plan having to hammer out.
IT WORKS!
Luckily, I have a partner and he is not only tall.. he has gorilla arms that are LOOONG and he never grumbles when I ask him to be tall and reach things for me.
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Maybe that's why I'm not moving on my projects... they're all thought out, but I'm not WORRIED yet!
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I'm more of a "I need to do this, so let's get cracking and get it over with' person.
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It takes me at least an hour to convince myself to do 10 minutes of dishes. I'll stand in front of the sink going, "Oh... dishes...." and then just walk away... over and over and over... until I am so hypnotized by the pattern I actually reach in and START DOING THEM.
I am such a pain in my own ass!
Sometimes I wish for the Type A drive that says, "Do it! Check it off the list! ACCOMPLISH!!"
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Hey bloody humidity and smoke alarms and being too short to turn them off. Totally been there.
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I plan for the frustration of hammering out things I don't plan having to hammer out.
IT WORKS!
Luckily, I have a partner and he is not only tall.. he has gorilla arms that are LOOONG and he never grumbles when I ask him to be tall and reach things for me.
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Haha your partner sounds useful!
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NOTHING would get done!!
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