Do It Now
Here’s a good post on procrastination. It’s almost exactly how I feel. I view procrastination as lying to ourselves. If I say I don’t want to take out the trash now I’ll do it later, I’m just lying to myself to make me feel okay with my decision. The reality is that I’m not going to want to take out the trash later, but I know I don’t want to now. Then later becomes now and I still feel the same way.
I do like the viewpoint in the post. I never thought of it as burdening my future self with the problems I failed at today, but that’s what it is. And also setting up a pattern of procrastination that my future self is more likely to follow. Either way I don’t agree with it. I feel that if something needs to be done, do it! It’s much better that way, because who knows what else may come up later that you didn’t know about now.