I just had an epiphany. I generally eat Lean Cuisine for dinner, and they have codes that you can enter on a Web site to earn points towards items in their catalog (for example, travel mugs, movie tickets, and Lean Cuisine coupons). I save all my boxes for their codes, but I often don't enter them because 1) I'm busy and 2) It's a tedious task. I have a large backlog of them. Tonight, I thought about entering some of them, and felt myself resisting doing it. Then I realized that I was expending energy resisting doing it that could be spent, well, doing it. And so I did.
I'm much more likely to procrastinate at home than at work because 1) I have no deadlines and 2) No one but me knows if I did procrastinate.
Well, right now I do have a deadline because I'm going out of town to a conference and then vacation (in Michigan) soon. My new pet sitter is coming over on Sunday. (I fired the old one for flakiness and communication problems. Well, at least I'm not giving her any more work, although she works at my vet, so this could get awkward.) Tomorrow, after taking Harlee to the vet, I need to spend my time cleaning my apartment and organizing my home office. Sunday, after meeting with the pet sitter, I need to run errands for my trip, dye my hair (Did I mention that I've been dyeing my hair? Yes, I've joined the dark side.), edit something for work, do some work for my grant writing class, and start packing. So hopefully this epiphany will allow me to sail through it all.
I'm much more likely to procrastinate at home than at work because 1) I have no deadlines and 2) No one but me knows if I did procrastinate.
Well, right now I do have a deadline because I'm going out of town to a conference and then vacation (in Michigan) soon. My new pet sitter is coming over on Sunday. (I fired the old one for flakiness and communication problems. Well, at least I'm not giving her any more work, although she works at my vet, so this could get awkward.) Tomorrow, after taking Harlee to the vet, I need to spend my time cleaning my apartment and organizing my home office. Sunday, after meeting with the pet sitter, I need to run errands for my trip, dye my hair (Did I mention that I've been dyeing my hair? Yes, I've joined the dark side.), edit something for work, do some work for my grant writing class, and start packing. So hopefully this epiphany will allow me to sail through it all.