Comments on: The Power of Procrastination

By: Lull Time — creative lifestyles

Lull Time — creative lifestyles — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:57:20 +0000

[...] Got To Do day. One of those super focused sorts of days that are a blessing and an inevitability to a procrastinator like me. I had things that I had to do–no way around it–and everything came into clear focus [...]

By: chas

chas — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:00:52 +0000

@Hillary: Beautiful! Double reverse punk procrastination! I love it! Something in there about Creative Deadline Management. Well said!

@Aldohas: Nice summary, dude! A big fat Aloha to you.

@Wally: Nice story…Reminds me of a de-cluttering tactic I developed back in the 80’s. I used to move a lot…like every year if not more. So I could not afford to gather any moss, if you know what I mean. So Whenever I moved I would pack everything up in marked boxes: Essential and Unessential. At my new home i would unpack the Essentials and leave the Unessentials until I thought of something that I wanted. Next time i moved, i would pitch out all the Unopened Unessential boxes. No peeking. Thanks for your wonderful illustration of the hyperbole of Urgent and Asap!

chass last blog post..Monday Morning Motivator! 24, Cry Baby Cry

By: wally

wally — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:41:24 +0000

I had a friend who once worked for AT&T or IBM or somesuch. They had an office policy that every desk had to be cleared at the end of the day. So, Mike gets ready for a two-week vacation – scrapes everyting off the desktop into a drawer. Comes back and gets back to work.

A year or more later, when he quits to be Mr. Mom, he cleans out the desk. Finds the pre-vacation pile – lots of URGENT and ASAP memos that he never got to. Know what? The world didn’t end, the company didn’t fold, he didn’t even get a reprimand.

I thank him for this story – a great life lesson.

By: Aldohas Personal Development

Aldohas Personal Development — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:13:25 +0000

yeah, we doing too much
especially if we work with multitasking
new task will always come, never ending
that’s bad, make us confused and tired qucikly

Aldohas Personal Developments last blog post..Personal Development For More Succesful Life

By: Hilary

Hilary — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:56:18 +0000

I have a point three: When you have that project on your drawing board just begging to be finished, how fabulous is it to vacuum a floor, wash some dishes, write a chapter of that novel you’ve stuffed in the back of a drawer? I have never been so up to date with everything else in my life than when I am putting myself under pressure to get a particular thing done.

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By: Challenging the productivity police — Mindful Time Management

Challenging the productivity police — Mindful Time Management — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:09:16 +0000

[...] here comes Charles Faris with his pro-procrastination post: Procrastination will do things for you that no planner can. Procrastination will create space. It [...]

By: Friday Afternoon Update! 29: The “Necessary Maintenance” edition — creative lifestyles

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:26:35 +0000

[...] months of procrastination playing out with the publication of a guest post on The Power of Procrastination over at Tim Brownson’s Discomfort Zone, [...]

By: chas

chas — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:20:30 +0000

@Laurie I’m with you on the failure thing, Laurie. And controlling results. Very difficult. I’ve pretty much given that up. It seems to be helping.

@Christine I hope you were able to enjoy some of that face time. Glad the world hasn’t ended!

@Kelvin I love the jumping rope with seaweed thing!

@TIm Dude! How many times I gotta tell you? You the man!

@Janet Please tell me no more skipping tea and shoelaces and cookie jars. Okay?

chass last blog post..Spring Cleaning vs. Detox

By: Janet Bailey

Janet Bailey — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:52:08 +0000

Chas, love this, and here’s what especially stood out for me: “And how many times have you skipped tea and shoelaces and cookie jars in order to do something that turned out to be of absolutely zero consequence?”

TOO MANY TIMES. Yay procrastination!

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:25:01 +0000

Thanks to everybody that has commented today and especially to the main man Chas! A really cool post bud as has been demonstrated by the responses. Thanks a lot!