Mine seems to be the road less (maybe least) traveled: I don't struggle against procrastination.
When there's something I think I need to do, I go on about my business -- and see whether I actually get to that thing I "need" to do or not. If not, I accept that as a message (from myself, from the universe, whatever) that I chose not to do it at that time. I may not find out till much later, if ever, "why" I so chose.
Example 1: There's a deadline for applying to some program that I think I may want to participate in but I'm not sure. If I find myself getting energized at the last minute and turning in the application, that tells me I really did want to do it. If not, I obviously didn't, so why fret about it.
Example 2: I'd been planning to work on my taxes but I feel like doing something else instead. I'm self-employed, by the way; I save all my receipts and keep pretty good notes from day to day, but I do my actual bookkeeping for the year only in the month or so before the tax deadline. I know full well that if I don't work on my taxes sometime, I won't get them done before the deadline. Still, I wait and see from one minute to the next if I feel like working on them or not. I'm likely to surprise myself in either direction: "There's not much happening online right now and I don't feel tired. I think I'll put in a couple of hours on my tax accounting." OR: "How can I be going to hear music when I'm not done with my taxes yet and the deadline is only two days away?" (but I go anyway.)
Somehow, it's always turned out that I do get all the forms filled out and mailed in time. That leads me to suspect that what I've been doing does somehow (paradoxically, that's how!) work for me. What tends to happen toward the last day or so is that I get a burst of energy, plow through the last few steps without getting bogged down in trivia (such as spending two more hours to calculate an additional deduction worth maybe $25 off my taxable income) -- and rather prefer the excitement of doing it this way to the relative boredom of doing it the "right" way.
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When you're procrastinating, procrastinate wholeheartedly and enjoy it. When you're not procrastinating -- don't.
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