Everyone procrastinates whether they want to admit it or not. Skipping an urgent task is as easy as saying "I'll do it tomorrow" even when advance knowledge of the task's deadline exist. If and when our task list is numerous we tend to tackle the more pleasurable ones, leaving the less pleasurable ones for the dreaded deadline Such deadlines snagged me more than once during my early scholarly years. Many times end of year school papers were not written until the day before they were to be turned in. Today my creative writing skills flow like the waters of Niagara Falls but during the High School years those writing skills were a drip at best. Worry and stress are the number one offenders of procrastination. The closer a deadline becomes, guilt and frustration begin to set in. So why do we mess around and choose not to complete an important task? Probably because we want the reward before the reward is actually do.
I don't know if there is such a place as Procrastination Paradise but with all the daily distractions one encounters it's easy to imagine such a place. The only real cure for "I'll do it tomorrow" is to accept that we are all pron to procrastinate from time to time and just doing the best we can simply has to suffice some of the time
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