Everyone falls prey to procrastination. One minute you’re determined to finish your paper that’s due tomorrow and the next thing you know you’ve watched four hours of The Office and you’re going to have to pull an all-nighter to make the assignment deadline. But there is a special group of procrastinators who get things done, just not the the things that they actually need to do. These people are "productive procrastinators," and if you're one of them, you've probably felt each of these things at one time or another.
1. Feeling proud of yourself for finishing an assignment that’s due in a week, while neglecting the fact that you have a test in less than an hour.
2. You'll spend one to two hours planning out each day of the week in order to fully optimize your productivity
3. Convincing yourself that in order to really focus on studying for a test, you have to first start your laundry, organize your room, and start making dinner.
4. You'll work on homework from other classes during a different class. You'll feel great until you get home and realize you have no idea what happened in the class and therefore have no idea how to do the homework that's due tonight.
5. You are always a week ahead in one class, on schedule with another, and two days behind in another class.
6. You never have downtime because you’re always either catching up on an assignment that you put off doing until the last minute doing other assignments you deemed more important.
7. You sleep at weird hours. Some productive procrastinators get work done in the wee hours of the morning and go to bed irrationally early, some sleep until the afternoon and stay up until the sun starts to rise.
8. Your mind is always scattered with the things you should be doing but aren't doing because you're too busy trying to finish something you've already done.
9. You aways have your work for the entire week spread out around you in a semi-circle of anxiety inducing multitasking.
10. The good news is, somehow, everything gets done. You might have almost put yourself in the hospital in the process, but you know that this will never happen again (hopefully).
