procrastination

[phyrespryte]

I'm a procrastinator. I don't know why, but I can't seem to focus on my assignments and get them done early.

 

And I wonder if this means that I don't like what I'm doing? I'm going to school for graphic design and I think that's what I love to do. And when I'm working on my projects I'm happy. In fact when my teachers are describing the assignments I get all excited and can't wait to get started. But somewhere in that hour drive from school to my home I lose all that excitement and I can't bring myself to start the projects until it's ridiculously late.

 

I'm like that with all kinds of school work. Papers, speeches, anything. But when I'm at my job...I'm so focused. I make little schedules and manage my time. I get things finished in a timely manner. I don't get it. Does that mean I don't really like graphic design?

[clandestinidad]

......I'll respond to this later......

 

 

(hehehe)

[phyrespryte]

......I'll respond to this later......

 

 

(hehehe)

 

 

[whichwayisup]

You're just like me. You like that adrenoline rush, the extra push you have to do to get the work done. I'm betting that you still do well, right? But afterwards you say to yourself, "If only I'd given myself more time to work on that, it could've been even better!" So, you have to trick your mind. Make yourself accountable!

 

It's not easy to do but you need to motivate yourself somehow to get started. Getting started is the worst thing for a procrastinator! But, once started there's no stopping you!

 

You like your job, you are good at graphic design! Don't worry. You just need that high energy to get you going. It's normal! (Unless it hinders your work and you make mistakes because of it, but I doubt that you make those kind of mistakes, especially with your work.)

[Curmudgeon]

you expect perfection from yourself and putting off a project until the last moment is putting off the slim possibility that your work might not measure up to your expectations of yourself? Then having to rush them gives you an excuse for, perhaps, a lesser product that you're really capable of?

 

I procrastinate about some things as well. However, I think that's just laziness on my part.

[phyrespryte]

You're just like me. You like that adrenoline rush, the extra push you have to do to get the work done. I'm betting that you still do well, right? But afterwards you say to yourself, "If only I'd given myself more time to work on that, it could've been even better!" So, you have to trick your mind. Make yourself accountable!

 

I'm always thinking that! And it's so frustrating b/c I think that I'm screwing things up for myself. And I don't know why I'm doing things like that. Like wouldn't things like that come easier if I really loved it? I will try the tricking myself thing. I'm not really sure how to do that though. Maybe I can get someone to be like a pretend teacher that I have deadlines for?

 

you expect perfection from yourself and putting off a project until the last moment is putting off the slim possibility that your work might not measure up to your expectations of yourself? Then having to rush them gives you an excuse for, perhaps, a lesser product that you're really capable of?

 

I think that might be part of it. Sometimes I'll have moments like that, but I tend to be more extreme. Like last quarter I missed 3 classes in a row because I felt like the work I had come up with wasn't the best. That was the worst I've ever done. Well actually I got a B in the class, but I really could've failed based on attendance.

[Outcast]

Decide you'll do some work for just five or ten or maybe fifteen minutes a day. Get yourself to just do that much. It's the starting that's the trouble but if you decide to just do a few moments, the task doesn't seem as daunting.