Oh, Proctrastination...

I procrastinate way too much. Before I started writing this, I was just sitting at my desk, playing with ball point pen, trying to see if I could get it to click in and out when the bottom half was unscrewed. Before that, I was eating cereal and reading fmylife.com. I am normally not as bad on Sundays, because that’s when I do laundry. For some reason I’m usually more productive when I’m waiting for my clothes to finish washing or drying, maybe because I enjoy feeling like I’m multitasking. I think the reason that it is so much harder for me to concentrate today, is that I am listening to music. I remember when I was in high school, I had no problem doing homework with music in the background. I think that part of the reason I was able to do that is that most of the time I only did my math homework with music. As I have discovered, it is a lot easier to do two things at once when one of them is mindlessly plugging numbers into formulas than when you are actually trying to come up with something original to write. Unfortunately, the music tends to take priority and I start wanting to sing along, and then my mind starts to wander. It would make sense for me to turn off the music when I want to start getting work done, but after having music in the room, it’s hard to suddenly try to work in silence. I think the trick is to just not turn on the music in the first place. Next time I start doing homework, I will save the music as a reward for finishing in a timely manner.