My Name is Kim...and I'm a Procrastinator.

I think the title of this post says it all. I am a procrastinator. If I knew a way to make a career out of being a procrastinator I would probably wait to do so.  This admission has been a very long time coming. I don't know why I procrastinate, and I wish I could stop as I hate the feelings of stress and self-recrimination that come along with realizing that I've put off projects that would have otherwise been easy to do in the time allotted. But at the moment that just isn't to be.

When I returned to school 8 semesters ago I thought for sure that I would be on top of my game and better able to handle my workloads than I did when I was in University. But here I am, 39 years old and struggling to finish a project that has been an ongoing assignment for the past four months and stressing about whether or not I will have it completed to my instructors satisfaction on time. 

There was even a point a few weeks back, while trying to accomplish the writing of a different paper where I found an article on procrastination as a form of procrastination!!! And that article spurned me on to another and another and... and the paper was late. I know that this behaviour is frustrating for the people around me. My children have often been the last to have a signed permission slip brought in to school, my husband has regularly bemoaned our being late for celebrations (procrastination isn't limited to school work, but also to getting ready for leaving the house) and my parents have given up (mostly) on asking if I've gotten my homework done in time for a projected due date.

For those who have been on the receiving end of the results of my procrastinating habits, I deeply and profoundly apologize. Will I be better in the future? I certainly hope so. Do I know how this is going to be achieved? Nope. But I have some ideas... and if you want to get a good feel for how those plans turn out feel free to check out the following articles:  (or if you just want to put something off until later... ;) )

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/11/how-to-beat-procrastination.html

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/03/procrastination-matrix.html



“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.”
― Bill Watterson