Oh, procrastination… why?

I wonder why do people or me, in particular, procrastinate? It is intellectually known that if work is done then there is more time to do whatever later. What is the point in pushing work till later where it will be half arsed, not done, or the pressure from wanting to get work done. Why must I torture myself with doing little work now and other work later?

There are a lot of things that I can do other than college work, but I know college work has to be done and so I put myself into the thought process that it must be done. Taking breaks is normal, but taking too long of a break because something or someone interesting popped up, so now I’ve extended my break until I am done with whatever activity associated. I know that I could try to divide my attention towards doing work and doing whatever other activity, but why should I? My belief in multi tasking applies when I am on the computer otherwise I will not. I have to focus on reading my book or whatever activity I am doing at the moment or else I will not feel that I did my very best at the current activity, then begins a cycle of blaming myself for what I should have done instead of focusing on prevention.

It is not that college work isn’t interesting sometimes, but I would rather find myself doing something more interesting than what I am reading. My curiosity drags me away from my work and onto the internet reading and writing about certain articles, looking at other graphic art, or programming(though I tend to stay away from this).

Ah… Just generated a new idea right now! Maybe this idea will lead to some glorious website. Ha! See procrastination isn’t all bad!

The question is… “Do I really want to stop procrastinating?” Probably not, but it is unproductive and against me to keep on. I think procrastinating can be a good thing in small amounts meaning as long as you can remember at some point that there is something important to be done. Even if you remember, will you do it? If not, then there is no point in remembering the task to be done. Using a ToDo list without following it isn’t a good idea, since you lose belief that it helps with time management. It happens all the time.

Actually, I am procrastinating right now, in order to write this. *Laughs*
Maybe I should off-shore some of this work!