More, on procrastination

So I've mentioned procrastination once before. Not that I showed myself to be some sort of professional upon the matter. Expressing my thoughts in a blogging format is... actually rather complex. It's more than just thinking and typing out your thoughts. At least, if you mean to be a proper blogger, it's not. I'm not sure that any bloggers thoughts are as clear and well-read as those they end up posting. If they are, well then, I'm doing something very, very wrong here without knowing it.

Ignoring that-- What can one do to overcome the difficulties of procrastination? Well the first and most important thing to do eerily resembles what you're supposed to do if you have a drinking or drug addiction. Admit to the problem. Hehehe. Once you've gone about admitting the problem to yourself, you have many options, including simply ignoring it. I'm going to ignore that however. One of the more practical steps I've found once I've admitted to my procrastination is to brainstorm. Not that I want a storm over my brain, but it helps jolt my creativity through bad puns. More seriously, thinking about WHAT it is you are procrastinating exactly, WHY you've been doing so, and realistically assessing how you could go about actually completing the thing you're putting off are key. After this comes something that many a teenager and young adult would dread... Setting a schedule.

Why set a schedule when you could instead just start on what it is you've been putting off now? Because, a schedule is an obligation, and one for which you have personally set. When you put off doing something you scheduled yourself to do, it has a much larger, more conscious impact on you than if you were to put it off otherwise, without any end-date in mind for what you had to do. Not just that, but it's incredibly easy to lose track of what it is you needed to do in the daily tedium. Tales abounds of my step-father and the numerous times he's been asked to fix something, only for it to be put off for another month or two until the problem is nearly critical and his complaints about how bad the situation is resound loudly through the house. Such is the result of procrastinating something.

So next time you know you're putting something off, I hope you'll try joining me in my efforts to stop saying 'why do today what can be done tomorrow?' I know I haven't mastered it yet by any measure. But it's that effort that's important. I am Etzel, and this is me signing off. Take care of yourselves.

On Procrastination

Ahh, procrastination. Mortal nemesis of all ambitious humans, both young and old. Why do today, what you can instead do tomorrow? Well. That's not really the reasoning most people use when they start procrastinating, but it may as well be, with how procrastination takes form as a brief 'I'll do it later'. For a thought and feeling so brief, its repercussions are myriad.

I speak, of course, on the tendency to fall behind in school or work. Speaking of which, I am behind in school. I believe that gives me full rights to say I am an expert upon procrastination, being so familiar with it.

So, what sorts of things can one do to combat procrastination? Well... I'll tell you about that another day.

Hello dear reader, I am Etzel. Etzel I am. This will be my attempt at a pseudo-blog/diary journal thingamabobbery-dickerydoodah. Yeah. As you can tell, I'm a special guy, with a special way for words. Tons of words.

All joking aside, like most everyone out there, there's a lot of things I want to say but leave unsaid. I think this happens to a lot of people. This is unfortunate to me, though, in a strikingly saddening manner. Perhaps it is unnecessary or silly of me to feel so sad over things left unsaid, especially since some things are better left unsaid- but that's how I feel. I'm creating this blog to personally motivate myself. By being more creative, and in making an attempt to share some of the things I like and come across with others. I know not all of this will be read, and that blog-journals are a dime a dozen, but if it helps me and it helps one or two readers- that is enough. In fact, that will more than warrant the effort, though I hope the blogging business isn't quite as bad as that. There's a lot to say about me and who I am, but I'll leave that for another day.

For now, I bring you something much more interesting. Pando. I'm not really much of one for reading about types of trees or anything, but when I stumbled across this, it was rather spectacular. I don't know how to put it in words, as it's really just mind-boggling to me, but it was fascinating nevertheless. Goodbye, and I hope to continue with this again another day. Thank you for reading.