My desk is covered with magazines that I've not taken the opportunity to even look through...the table is covered in mail, gifts, lunch boxes and everything else...(it's a hot spot for dumping!) The couch has empty boxes sitting on it and the cats are pouncing on the bubble wrap on the floor. I really should be cleaning or the one of the other 99 items listed on my "to do" list for today but I have 30 whole minutes to do what ever I want.
I found this NUGGET today in O magazine and it gave me hope:
"Procrastination isn't always a bad thing. It can keep you from working on tasks that ultimately turn out to be less important than you though. Or as Calvin Coolidge put it: 'If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.' The Marines have a saying too: 'Plan early, plan twice'. By which they mean, put off planning for an event as long as possible, because if you do it well ahead of time circumstances will probably change andrequire replanning."
-Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman, In a Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (Little, Brown)
8 comments:
I'm in! I'll procrastinate, too!
xo
LBC
Ohhh... Like it! Perhaps I'll do a little procrastination today too. :)
I feel better then!! LOL I'm spending the day at the hospital, a friend is having surgery. Thankfully, they have WiFi! ;)
Miss you!!
Works for me. All I needed was a good reason to procrastinate!!!
Love ya and miss ya, smile you are cared for!
I am always so busy that procrastination just does not work into my world. I wish sometimes that IT would. I just would like to be that way. Just go and sit down and not do anything but it does not work like that here. People are always AFTER me..Sandy come here Sandy do this..Sandy do that. I cannot keep up..WHEW !!! I IS TIRED!!! Sandy
What a FABULOUS tidbit!!! I am taking this straight to heart -- and holding it DEAR!!! Thanks Sweety!!!
Daisy - You've saved me! I'm not a procratinator, I'm just efficient! Efficient - the dishes will fall into the ditch if I don't do them, right?
I saw this too! I thought, "well that bodes well for me!"
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