Procrastination

I have always been the same. My elder daughter use to say
‘Your doing a Scarlet O’Hara again ‘. ‘I will think about it tomorrow ‘ ?

Me.

I would like to claim the title of World Champion of Procrastination!
I drive myself mad with this. And yes, like you, MawBroonsback, I feel so much better after finally making myself do something positive, and yet I continue to be as
procrastinating as ever.
If you find a cure, can you let me know?

Actually I’m procrastinating now, and most of the time I spend on here. There is always something else I should be doing. This is a terrible time waster.

Ooww, me! I have lists of things that need doing all over the place and I'm sure I've lost one. Now I'm in a panic.

With you all the way maw. Sounds like me to a tee.

Ironing. It’s always the ironing. I have every excuse under the sun..it’s not the right time of day..or night...it’s too hot to iron, it’s too cold to iron. The board isn’t to hand, I can’t find the iron. Ironing is too dry. I’ve run out of spray starch ...it goes on and when the procrastination is REALLY REALLY bad I bung it all back in the wash. The shame of it!

I'm terrible, too. So many things I put off because I frankly CBA.

Though funnily enough, yesterday I dug out a cardigan - a beautiful alpaca intarsia thing with a floral pattern, which I literally hadn't worn for years because the little bastard moths had been at it. It's been in a plastic bag all that time, waiting to see if I'd ever get around to trying to save it. It was an expensive present from dh so I'd felt bad about it for ages.

And I did actually mend it! There must have been 8 separate small moth holes, but thanks to the multi-coloured pattern and my stash of threads and yarns, they honestly hardly show.

I then very carefully hand washed it as recommended, with bar soap, so fingers Xed.
Now for some of those other things I've been putting off for ever...

moi aussi

I've even used a self-hypnosis cd to persuade myself to get on with things and to achieve!

No change. sigh....

Well done, Witzend!

when the procrastination is REALLY REALLY bad I bung it all back in the wash. The shame of it

Been there, done that!
Summer blouses in the ironing basket since last Summer!

So reassuring to know I'm not alone. I should be ironing, but … (my excuse is that if I do the ironing, then there won't be anything left that needs doing, so I'll be redundant).

I'm not a procrastinator but my husband is. Even to the point where I've cooked dinner, it is sitting on the table and he starts putting stuff in the dishwasher or clearing the kitchen. Anything to put off actually sitting down to eat and No, my food isn't that bad!!! Hence, dinner is lukewarm bordering on cold by the time he gets around to eating it. We've been married for 35 years and he's never been any different but it is the one main thing that annoys me. When he say's "I'm going to do....." , I take it with a pinch of salt, say nothing and wait for nothing to happen.

This is me, I must admit I am also a little bit lazy too . I wish I were different , I want to be one of those people always on the go ,with a spotless house and lots of friends and hobbies .

I'm the same. What I just don't understand is that I know how good I feel after I have actually done something that's I've been procrastinating over for days months. So, knowing that, why don't I just get on and do stuff?

Ha....I recognise myself Maw. When I'm procrastinating it's like I'm made of lead. Even for really important things like tax declaration. I'm better if there's a deadline looming, imposed by whoever. Then I work to the deadline, but at least it gets done. I also have a mental list of displacement activities which are less awful than the thing I'm (not) contemplating. Then at least SOMETHING gets done. Now, where's that wet paint that needs watching.....?

Me too and I recognise the "I'm made of lead"! Should have done so much this morning but spent most of it on my phone.

Should be cleaning the house! But it's fine here so am taking the opportunity to tidy the garden. I HATE cleaning!

I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure .....

Yes, it’s me!
Always tomorrow, this afternoon, next week ...
They are my clothes in the ironing pile too. And the mending pile. And the refugee pile.
Those are my bulges too because, yes obviously, I’ll start the diet tomorrow.
Maw you are not alone.
Just off to get the ironing board out. Or maybe just wait till the tennis is on ...

I've got the ironing problem sorted! I almost never do any, unless it's something for a special occasion.
Tidy folding means most things are fine without ironing, imo.

Yep I am just the same and it is true you feel so much better when the deed is done but getting round to doing it is another matter!
I too have a list of a list of a list ......

Me too, I have things in a box in the garage and clothes in a wardrobe of DHs all ready to go to the charity shop they’ve been there since Christmas maybe as Mawbroon says I’m not yet ready to let them go.
I also put off making GP app, hairdresser app, making calls I know I need to I’ve always been this way I guess there’s no cure ?

It is a condition. I even bought a book once called "Do it Now". I haven't got round to reading it yet.....

DH is possibly worse than me. We had our floor sanded last week and DH was still at his desk in the room when the men arrived. He'd been saying I will move my desk- just leave it to me, for weeks.
Of course it all happened in a few seconds once it began so why?

Womans Hour featured an editor explaining how she dealt with procrastinating writers, of whom there are many, by toying with their deadlines. She'd tell them the article was due in a week but it was really longer so that the tension built up as she knew that creative people need the motivation of a deadline to begin