Stand-Up

Day 343 (23) – Concrastinating

The one advantage to having a looming deadline that you are avoiding at all costs is that you generally are productive in other facets of your life.  In the time that I probably should have been spending on a key project for work today, I’ve done some laundry, worked out, written some stand-up, written a sketch, copied some videos to my computer, had a meeting for a cool opportunity at work, and worked on some potential business ideas.  Oh, and now blogging.

I guess procrastinating isn’t quite as bad if you’re being productive with it.   Of course I’m no better off on my deadline on Wednesday, but there’s still plenty of time left.  Unfortunately if you subtract all of my current commitments over the next three days, it may be getting a bit tight.

And that’s the internal argument you always have with yourself.

Side A: “Oh, there’s plenty of time, you’ve got 3 days.”
Side B: “Oh crap, I’ve got 2 soccer games, a handful of meetings, and would generally like to sleep sometime in the next 72 hours.”
Side A: “But you work better in pressure situations.”
Side B: “I’m not in college any more, there are more drastic consequences for not executing properly than just getting an A- in class.”
Side A: “Dude, stop your crying.”
Side B: “Ok, you win.  Let’s go defrag the computer.”