Steve Pavlina: “First, thinking that you absolutely have to do something is a major reason for procrastination. When you tell yourself that you have to do something, you’re implying that you’re being forced to do it, so you’ll automatically feel a sense of resentment and rebellion. Procrastination kicks in as a defense mechanism to keep you away from this pain. If the task you are putting off has a real deadline, then when the deadline gets very close, the sense of pain associated with the task becomes overridden by the much greater sense of pain if you don’t get started immediately.”
via Keith Devens, who’s putting off reading it.
_o_________ ___ _______ on October 2nd, 2004 at 3:13 pm
Overcoming Procrastination
Steve Pavlina, the founder of Dexterity Software, has written an excellent
article on overcoming
procrastination. If you don’t have time to read it right now, here are the
major points to avoid procrastinating on a given task.
Realize that you don’t