Maya’s Own

Make procrastination work for you

If it weren’t for the last minute, I wouldn’t get anything done.

~Author Unknown

Are you a master at procrastination and wouldn’t you like to see some recognition?

After all procrastination isn’t so bad, never mind all the doers out there that will try to get you off your butt with all kinds of enticements about getting the job done, doing today what you could very well be doing tomorrow or the day after or never. I mean if you wait long enough several things could happen:

- The job won’t need doing anymore

- Someone else [probably a uber efficient doer] will do it for you

- Some disaster hits and then who will care anyway

- Better still you could win the lottery [if you did buy that ticket].

Procrastinators are smart, why would you do today what really you may never have to do at all?

Procrastinators are very chilled out people, and are easy to recognize by their vocabulary, they may use phrases like:

- Yeah, whatever…

- Will be done tomorrow…next week…

- Hey, relax, there is no rush

- Take a chill pill

- Didn’t I do it last week?

- I’ll get on to it right away [well sometime soonish]

- It will be done by Friday [and I am Robin Crusoe]

- I’ll have a rest and then I’ll get onto it

- What Friday already, time flies

- This job is too hard

- I have an allergy

- Men/women were not put on this earth to work

- Adam and Eve had free apples

You see really procrastinators are easy going, relaxed and some take the long view on life:

- Why do today what you could put off indefinitely? After all whatever isn’t now is in the future, right? That means that if I don’t do it this instant it doesn’t mean I won’t do it later.

Procrastinators live really in the now:

- Right now I sit here staring into infinite space

- I am contemplating

- I breathe therefore I am

- Is this pencil really made from a tree?

There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house. ~Joe Ryan

There is a certain frisson in putting off jobs and urgent task, isn’t there feeling of power to know that you could do something right now but you choose not to? You can observe everyone getting very agitated because you are so masterful at being a great procrastinator. You see procrastination takes immense skill at not doing something, sure we all know you really think about it a lot, you mull it over: will i, wont i, should I and then you perform an absolute miracle, you will put it out of your mind altogether, that is until someone reminds you that the letter you meant to write three years ago to your uncle in Italy wont be needed anymore and he left his mansion to the cat society.

You know that procrastination works for you, most of the time. When it stops to work for you it may be that you are getting too old for it, you may then just have to get on with it and try to join the doers.

I strongly suggest that you reconsider, old age is the perfect excuse! The Universe has finally granted you your wish: you are now too feeble to do anything!

Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow. ~Gerald Vaughan

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ~Mark Twain