Okay, here’s the deal. I’ve known for about three years that this time was coming, and I thought all along that I was planning for it. But unh, unh. Not exactly what happened. I mean, I spent a lot of time formulating my ideas and all. I’m good at that. Know what I plan to do, and now it’s time to do it. Here’s the problem. I.procrastinate.grandly. I can knock out a deadline, but always at the last minute. And I produce quality work, so it seems that my system works for me, right? Well, it does, but not really, I guess. The stress can’t be healthy and so I know there’s got to be a better way? But what is it? Someone help me PLEASE!!!! I haven’t met a better procrastinator than myself, and I don’t procrastinate on everything. Just the important stuff. Like my dissertation. Which I let sit in park for a whole semester and now I want to be done in May. HA!!!! But guess what? I really will finish and get it done, but at what cost? I have notes and research but nothing written. And now I have to hustle to write a chapter and a half a month (oh, approx. 50 pages, incl. further research) to make a mid-March deadline. Can you see how sleep is quickly becoming a part of my past? Right along with my already not so active social life? Can you see it all just slipping away? I hear this is normal but usually spread out over a longer period of time.
I told my mom last night that I feel like, you know, walking, running, jogging, exercising. Her reply: Don’t walk, run, or jog. Just write. Quite succinctly put. And quite necessary. Sometimes direct language is all my flighty nature can comprehend. So here’s my plan. I’m going to research, work, and write until I’m doing it in my sleep. In the meantime, I’m open to suggestions for time management. REALLY, I NEED THEM. And I’m open to suggestions for a vacation spot. Any nice places near you? I’m open to travel to resorts, nice locales, places near water… You get my drift, serene spots. I know I’m going to need some me time in the midst of the madness, so I plan to dip out one weekend and take my writing stuff with me. So, please, I beg you, I implore you, help me out and help me get my time management under control. I can tell you how to manage yours but can’t see how to cross the street with mine.
Until next time,
NLC
hunny, i can’t even front and give any time-management advice: i have been afflicted with Chronic Procrastinatorosis-itis since i was a child! my mom faithfully tells these stories of my childhood last-minute procrastinator antics every family get-together we have! lateness (always always late - sigh) and putting things off is a sickness i have sadly learned to live with, because my attempts to cure it have been futile! i, too, will stress myself sleepless to meet a deadline that i put off ’til the last minute. and i DO always make the deadline, but always wonder WHY in the world anyone would want to torture themselves like that??? but no matter how torturous, it hasn’t been enough to make me straighten up and fly right
i hope that things have improved in this regard for you! but if not, just know that your e-twin relates all too well! LOL.
I really do believe we were separated at birth. If your family was from Jersey, I’d know it for sure.
Comment by dragonflysoul — February 27, 2008 @ 1:31 p