"Procrastinate" on the face of it is not a threatening word but it shares the same meanings as: put off, delay, postpone, drag your feet, adjourn, dally and dawdle. Now that is not a positive group of words, yet most of us are guilty of this everyday. The Post Office has a special team of clerks that except IRS tax return at 11:45 every April 14th until midnight when they cannot any longer be postmarked before the deadline.
We leaned to procrastinate form the earliest days at school when a paper or report was due Friday and we beg our teachers for additional time. "OK" they would say "but I'll have to reduce the grade you receive by a whole letter." We were willing to take the risk only to be stumbling along again on Sunday night trying to come up with something to present.
Some like the excitement of procrastination because they feel they do their best work under the pressure. "A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large." said Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby. While Joseph Ferrari had this observation, "Telling someone who procrastinates to buy a weekly planner is like telling someone with chronic depression to just cheer up." Robert Collier, American writer and publisher was the most helpful with this hint, "If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time."
K.
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