Procrastination is an inevitable part of life. We have all experienced it at one point or another; however, for some of us, more than often. This article may very well be helping you procrastinate from doing something else! No matter what you are doing, just remember, "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -Don Marquis

1. Literally everything is a distraction.

That colorful pack of Post-It notes on your desk? That shiny magazine cover? The mess in your room that for some reason needs to be cleaned at this very moment? All perfect distractions. If you’re like me, you understand that you will look for anything and everything to keep you from doing what needs to be done.

2. Sometimes you get so off track that you end up in weird places.

Somehow, instead of typing that history paper, you find yourself watching videos of cute puppies playing hide and seek. You get sucked into their cute puppy eyes and you heart begins to melt. I should adopt a puppy! I'm going to search every dog breed ever. Let's take a quiz to see what kind of puppy I should get! What does that have to do with history? Who knows? But it’s way better than typing that paper!

3. Netflix is both your best friend and your worst enemy.

If watching Netflix were a crime, I would be doing life. There have been nights where I have finished a whole season of a show, and I look at the clock and it’s 10:00 p.m.! What was I doing again?, I think to myself. Oh, yeah. Homework. We professional procrastinators are also professional Netflix watchers. Give us something to do, and we’ll be sure to find a show to watch, guaranteed!

4. Picking up your cell phone is deadly.

Once you pick up your phone, you’re sucked in. Whoa! When did they add all of these cool Snapchat filters? I have to see every single picture my best friend has posted on Instagram in the past three months. What’s a really good tweet? Let me text my friends and see! And perhaps the most distracting of them all, those Tasty videos on Facebook. What could possibly be better than watching countless videos of how to bake cookies and gourmet mac and cheese and cake pops and... well, you get the point.

5. You are the queen/king of the last-minute assignment.

When your professor assigns the class a project and informs you that in fact, “It cannot be done in one night,” you laugh. You know very well that your procrastination will kick into high gear for the next few weeks and the day before the assignment is due is when you will get it done. All too often, you end up feeling like Spongebob when he tries to write his boating school paper! In fact, some of my best papers have been written at 5:00 a.m. on the day that they are due! I am not saying that this is necessarily the best way to work, but hey, procrastination happens. If you’re a professional procrastinator, you most likely live by the all-too-true phrase of “Due tomorrow, do tomorrow.”