Most procrastinators (or those that I know) don’t have problems planning out their days, their lives, or their goals. I set goals to paper several times a week. I also ignore those goals most days, because they’re boring. I don’t want to do most of the stuff on my to-do lists, whether I written those to-dos on paper or on an imaginary list in my head. Why don’t I want to do them? Because, as I said before, they’re boring.

That’s never been more clear to me than after Continue reading this article »

Sometimes I really feel like I have it all together. Sometimes though I feel like I’m still floundering in the depths of procrastination. If you stop by this site often enough, you’ll probably realize quickly that my post topics follow along that pattern.

Lately, I’ve been suffering from the fallout of following my own advice a little too closely. I still believe 100% that you have to find your passion if you want to find a true path out of perpetual procrastination. However, anything can be taken too far, and over the past six months, I’ve probably taken my passion too far. Continue reading this article »

There used to be a site here. I mean, things still look the same, but there’s something significant missing.

All the old posts are gone.

I changed hosts—not exactly true—I didn’t change hosts so much as I changed accounts under which I was hosting this account, and in the change-over I needed to restore my backup for this site’s database.

I procrastinated. In fact, I’m still procrastinating. I have the backup and I could restore it, if I wanted to. But… it’s work, and frankly I’m not sure it’s worth the effort. My old posts weren’t all that good anyway.

How many times can I tell the world that I’m about to start posting regularly before they start to think I’m just a big fat liar?

Procrastination is an insidious disease of the psyche. I will probably never overcome my procrastinating ways, but I’m tired of trying.

I’ve found a better way. Continue reading this article »