The one exception was that I had to hand in papers from time to time. In college, the sudden unbridled personal freedom was a disaster for me-I did nothing, ever, for any reason. The thing that neither the dictionary nor fake procrastinators understand is that for a real procrastinator, procrastination isn’t optional-it’s something they don’t know how to not do. No, “avoid procrastination” is only good advice for fake procrastinators-those people that are like, “I totally go on Facebook a few times every day at work-I’m such a procrastinator!” The same people that will say to a real procrastinator something like, “Just don’t procrastinate and you’ll be fine.” While we’re here, let’s make sure obese people avoid overeating, depressed people avoid apathy, and someone please tell beached whales that they should avoid being out of the ocean.
Who would have thought that after decades of struggle with procrastination, the dictionary, of all places, would hold the solution.Īvoid procrastination. The action of delaying or postponing something: your first tip is to avoid procrastination. PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing.
