roman’s blog

When it comes to procrastinating few people are as gifted as I am. I’m not particularly proud but I can say I’ve become quite good at doing it successfully. In my opinion, effective procrastination is very much like a cycle because it has key elements that need to fall into place for the process to begin. Let’s observe!

First, nothing can happen if one doesn’t have a looming deadline in the near future. So anything the teacher says to complete the night, “of” probably qualifies. Of course one can choose simply not to do the assignment, but the essential key is to convince one ‘self there is enough time left. This thought process usually happens more than once throughout various hours of the day. Bleeding the time available to your disposal is the meat and potatoes of procrastination. So at three PM an after school nap is acceptable and a few hours of leisure following that never hurt anyone; that is as long as you know that realistically you will have enough time to complete whatever it is you have. This is where the stakes get significantly higher because there is less and less time remaining, and one has to be careful to not run of out time altogether, which can be so easy to do and is the greatest drawback of procrastination. There is one last step that will either make or break the entire process and that is if you are able to get done what it is you have to do, within the amount of time. This period can be very trying because complete focus and diligent work is required. If one is able to do this he/she is well on their way to the top, or top of the bottom some would say…

From personal experience I can attest that the reasons for procrastinating are few. I have observed and identified these reasons and they are: laziness, lack of interest or time, preference, and sometimes simply no reason at all. I’ve also found that procrastination doesn’t come without its obvious lessons which include, thoughts of never procrastinating again, a feeling of resentment toward the practice, and in most cases like mine, no lesson learned at all, which can only result in further procrastination. I like many other people, am working to break this habit, which I fervently hope I can ditch one day. I don’t think I would be wrong in calling myself a functioning procrastinator.