Once again, deadline looms, still no product.
Once AGAIN!

:D

Does anyone else have that inbuilt, inherant instinct to just not do what you know you have to until you have abolsutely no alternative? Do it now or you will NEVER do it! sorta thing. I don't plan ahead. Any distraction is good enough for me. Still have 2 days to write up that essay/report? Well then you've got PLENTY o' time mate... Do it later.

Do it later.

No really, it's ok. I'll do it later...

Well, later has crept up to now. And so I'd better do it. NOW.

Anyone else ever find themselves in this position? Deadlines run contradictory to your nature? Need pressure to perform?

Good! I'm glad we can be honest with ourselves.

I always have that with making reports on subjects I don't like. Luckily I lose alot of subjects I don't like at school this year [img]smile.gif[/img]

Yes, I'm like that, too. Back when I was in high school, I waited until the night before the deadline at midnight before starting working on my reports.

Often, when I had to do an oral report on a book, I wouldn't even read the book, and spend the night up trying to get something done before going to school. The results were often disastrous.

"Well... it's about a guy, and he.... no wait... I think he.. YES! That's it! He was a cop and... (30 secs of description later) and I think that's about it. What? I'm 5 min shorts! Damn!"

It does remind me a bit, yeah.

There are two ways with me: Either I do it directly, and I mean the "NOW, at this moment, drop everything I'm doing" directly.
Or I do it tomorrow. Well maybe the day after tomorrow, or the day after that. When was it supposed to be ready? Oh, plenty of time.... :D

There always seems to be somthing better (read: more fun) to do.

I'm very lazy, so I should be a terrible procrastinator. However I'm also a worrier and I fret if I think I'm not going to get something done in time (usually far too early ;) ). So my laziness and almost-dehabilitating worrying cancel each other out.

Plus I like to have an even amount of leisure time all the time, rather than do nothing when I should be working, then have NO time later to play or go out or just chill because I've left work to do which I need about twice as much time as I have left to do it in.

I am the same way, but I'de like to think it isn't laziness for me that makes me a procrastinator. its just my need for a challenge type thing. I can't really can't fully focus on something if there isn't a deadline looming.

I think I'll answer this one tomorrow. :D

ROTFL @ Animal! Yes I'll reply back to this thread too. Just not right now, I'm kinda tired now. Haven't eaten yet either, got that to do.... [img]smile.gif[/img] :D

Hope your cramming is successful Heirophant! (crosses fingers, toes too) [img]smile.gif[/img] :D

one of my greatest procrastination stories was from high school.

My one teacher had a poster in her room that said "I'll procrastinate tommorow." And every day of my senior year I told myself I HAD to steal it, because it was so very very 'me'. Every day I came up with another reason that 'today' wasn't a good day to do it... and the final week of school rolled around, and I kept saying "I'll get it before I graduate, I just can't today cause, ummm, well, whatever, I'll get it tommorow."

Well, graduation day came and went, and how many years later I bet that damn poster is still hanging up behind her desk... but it DOES serve as a reminder of just how bad I am at procrastinating. [img]smile.gif[/img]

While I was still schooling, I tend to purposely make all my reports or projects in the last minute because if I finish them too early, other people will try to copy all my hard work. it's very annoying when that happen.

I did that too, but not for that reason. I did it because if I started a report and stopped before it was finished, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Once I'm thinking about something that's all I can think about it till it's finished. So I figured I'd have to do it all at once or else I'd lose the focus I had. So, I'd do everything else first and wait to do the report last, research and all. Weird, but it worked for me.

Many a weekend has passed with me considering doing an assignment/writing a speech etc but then going socialising or getting distracted on the net.

Unfortunately, I am too organized to do that much. If I have something beg to do, I figure out by when it needs to be done and work a little on it along every day. I hate being stressed out by last minute things. I don't function well under pressure.

I'm a huge procrasinator. For projects, I start em late like 12:00 when they are due the next day. I'm even worse for homework, I do it when my teacher is going around to check if you did it. Heh, kinda fun.

But seriously, a procrasinator is just a person who works best under pressure.

Yeah, H I'm exactly the same. I need the pressure of the deadline to get me working. If I have a 30-hour project to do and have 4 weeks to do it, I'll leave it till the last week then start working on it about 1 hour a day and then work on it for 10 hours each on the 2nd to last and last days. I can't motivate myself with anything other than deadling pressure :( and I hate myself for it, but that's the way it is...

yeah i always procrastinate every single time just cuz im so lazy and well u kno... its so bad but the pressure to make u finish caz be good sometimes cept im using finishing it bout 2am the morning due so its not the best.......dw hierophant i have exams tomoro and next week barely started studying er well ok havnt started at all. well im going to do my design now lol-due in on monday :S