Beating Procrastination

The first time I tried to write this blog post I attempted to dictate it onto my computer because I was feeling lazy and needless to say it did not work out. I kept saying Mac, yet my computer kept typing Matt, Charlie was barking which only caused more confusion and overall once I went back and tried to reread the post, I sat there thinking….. whaaaaat? (PS. the picture along with this post was the dictation -goodluck)

Second try at this blog post, here we go. 

This past weekend I didn’t have much going on, not a lot of hw or work, it was actually pretty chill, and I did nothing productive, and it was awesome. 

What isn’t awesome? 

This week is actually a heavy work load week for me with work and my internship, having to do 2 papers for school and a presentation by Thursday but you know what I just realized?  I want to redo my balcony setup and I also think it’s a great time to Marie Kondo all my drawers and I should probably clean the apartment and of course I must go visit every family member I haven’t seen in the past 3 weeks!

Doesn’t it happen to you that you want to do all these projects, that have probably never come to mind before, on the weeks or days you already have a lot going on? Why are we like this? Is like all of the sudden I want to play The Sims and I haven’t even played The Sims in probably a month! BUT NOW IS A GOOD TIME? C’MON  

At the beginning of the semester my professor showed us this video about procrastination and about how there is this “monkey” in our brain who takes the wheel whenever we don’t want deal with all the things we have to do (I’ll add the video in case you guys want to watch it’s actually pretty great). Anyways, as I watched this video, I thought to myself, that will not be me, this monkey will not win, I will work on my papers ahead of time, so I am not scrambling last minute HA! Jokes on me, because we are 3 months into the semester, and I don’t even have a designated notebook to bring to class (we’re not allowed to use our laptops) and I just keep writing notes on receipts and whatever else I can find in my bag. Man did this monkey beat my ass. 

Procrastination just feels sooo good until it feels sooo bad and when it starts to feel bad you really start to question the kind of person you are and make plans to become a better one. But what happens to all those plans? where do they go? Have any of you been able to conquer this epidemic? Please write to me if you have. 

Last week I could’ve sat down and written this blog calmly, lovingly but no I am now writing it with major anxiety. Have you ever seen that meme about remembering you have HW and watching Netflix stressfully, that’s pretty much my life. Maybe that means I am good under pressure and it may just mean that is the only way for me to perform. Who knows?

Anyways, I’ll end this here because I MUST go watch the final two episodes of Shameless because I gotta know what happens to Fiona. 

XOXO 

GG (just kidding) 

It’s just me 

Claudia 

This is the TED talk on procrastination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU