I have managed, after many minutes of hard work, to produce the CURE for procrastination. It was a long and hard process, of course - and the success only pure luck and chance due to my dubious intellect and imagination (which is of course otherwise is busy finding new ways to procrastinate, like writing a blogpost ...)
The cure has been painstakingly written down in a small green notebook on a day by day basis. Each day stating what I need to do, so that I know exactly how much I need to do. So what I need to do is do that it says that I need to do, in order to do what needs to be done. Easy.
Some dude named John Perry has written a little paper called Structured Procrastination. Here he states: Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
I can totally connect to what he is saying, and therefore perhaps I need to put down something even MORE important to do so that I can avoid doing, so that I can get my thesis done.. Don't really know what that could be... hmmm.. If one of you (my 3 readers (?)) have any ideas, I'd be happy to hear about it! Perhaps world peace? I dreamt of George Bush the other night. It was a nightmare... because I forgot to punch his face!! Talk about being a disapointment to myself..
Sunday, September 05, 2004
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