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Wait To Procrastinate

It's okay, you can go ahead and put off that procrastination until tomorrow.

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Just so you have a better understanding of why this article will be rather ironic, you need to know that my editor needs my final draft turned in tonight....I am just now starting. You should also know that I spent all this morning detangling knots of necklaces (ones I bet even the most honored boy scout would have trouble with) and reorganizing my newly moved in dorm room. It's also imperative you realize this article in particular, will be over procrastination.

Surely my mother could tell countless stories of grade school projects being thrown together the night before. I remember once in high school writing most of a major research paper over Genetically Modified Foods the lunch period before it was due. Even now, in college, as I strive to redeem my work ethic I can't seem to escape the fate of procrastination. And from conversation after conversation, I know for a fact I am not the only one.

Why is procrastination such a wide spread complication in the lives of so many people? Why do we let it run our lives when we know the only outcomes are agony and stress?

Now you'll remember, two articles ago I shared a list of some of my favorite videos produced by some of my favorite YouTube channels. At the top of that list was my newly founded channel of Ted Talks. Specifically, this one by Tim Urban.


I know not everyone is as good at procrastination as me, but if you try really hard, I'm sure you can find 15 minutes to watch this whilst procrastinating from something else that needs to be done (like making dinner or writing your own article).

But in all seriousness, Tim Urban presents a stupendously hilarious thought process behind procrastination. He talks you through the traditional cycle and vividly provides accurate characters with their own role in this process and from there he moves on to explain an even greater side effect which most people, including myself, fail to ever realize is going on.

So now as classes begin, I will strive to keep my momentum and dedication to getting things done when they need to be done and allow for playtime once it is earned...starting right after I turn in this already late article to my editor.

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