Why is it when I have a job to do I just procrastinate until the very last minute. I tend to do this with everything. I really need to be more diligent about doing things on time and on schedule and I even try. I make a list and set out to do it. I even do most of the things on my list, but there at the bottom of the list lies the very thing that I dread doing so I continue to make excuses for myself to myself and put it off longer?! Why oh why? I could just do the dreaded duty first, but noooo. I don't do it. I have even put myself through bootcamp and made myself become more task oriented and more diligent about finishing. At most of these tasks I have gotten better at completing and doing on time and not waiting till the last minute, but there before me lies the things that I dread that I do wait until the last minute for...homework, folding the laundry, packing for any trip, there are a few others left nameless.
So as far as folding the laundry goes I wait usually until one of my daughters is either looking for clean socks or a pair of panties. How sad is that?! I just absolutely dread folding the laundry. It really doesn't take that long I just hate doing it, so I procrastinate! Packing for trips! Oh boy, now there is something done on the fly. No matter how much I plan and try it just never happens on time and early. Here I am at 4 A.M. packing and we have to leave at 5! Nothing new here for me. The homework issue, now there is an issue. I start off doing great early on in the class then as time goes on the homework gets turned in later and later. What is wrong with me? Especially with writing a paper. Now there is something confusing. I could be writing over a great subject and one that I love and I am even great at writing usually. Put me on a deadline though and I have major mental block.
Hmmm....Oh well, guess some things never change. Maybe my best work is done under pressure.
OMG Heather you hit the spot, I feel the same way except I have no kids. I start off with doing things on time, but never finish or go beyond the dead line. The same thing with my draft for this terms paper, now last term on was on point. This term I don't know what's happening. I start off every week early and rush to finish everything tuesday by 11:59pm. Ugh....Now I'm trying to do my draft for the project for this unit and I haven't done any research or an outline. However, I tried to get help with an outline through the writing center, but it wasn't very helpful because the tutor didn't know much. So now I am spending all day doing my draft before later tonight. Hopefully we can work together or something to come up with a plan to help us both. Lol...good luck on that and best wishes!!!!!!!!!!!
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