Oh how I hate it, the art of "putting it off till later". I have a degree in this skill. No matter where it's work or something like a blog post, there's nothing I do better than wasting time doing something else instead and I don't know why this is. I wouldn't say I was lazy, often once I have got started I do a good job and put a fair amount of effort in but it's the getting started that's so hard. Every task small or big seems like a chore even if I don't really mind doing it.

After reading up on procrastination via the net I'm still no clearer why I do it. Though I do know one thing, I can't split up tasks into smaller tasks, once I have started something, anything. It must be finished even if it it means staying up and propping my eyelids open with matchsticks. Something that has happened too many times when I find myself interested in a project involving coding. I find it hard to quit unless it's done unless I'm able to find something more interesting or just really get board of it (which rarely happens). When I work on something it's like stepping into a zone of focus and I hate anything breaking that. I guess this makes many tasks look big. For example, when I used to work on a PHP web-based project, it took priority over everything else, be it Uni work, guitar or whatever. Because the initial task was so big I just kept working on it. Yet I found it quite choking.

But still I can't find the answer why I put things off, I hate doing it. I hate disorganisation yet that's me. Anyway, answer or not I'm trying to overcome this and I think it starts by working on every task I have in my backlog of tasks. I'm trying to focus on doing less of more at the moment and getting used to working on more than one thing at the same time. Plus since I quite working on my PHP web-based project I have a lot more time on my hands, I have even gone back to an old site I used to help run and fixed a few things that I should have done ages ago, I hope to be able to help fix a few more things over there in between other jobs.

If I could kick this procrastination mentality it would be great! Since lots of my time is completely wasted avoiding doing other things which is stupid and it annoys me very much to the point I annoy others.

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