Master Procrastinator

  • Jul. 24th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
acafanmom: (Mei)
That was my diagnosis at The Procrastination Equation, with a score of 92/100. It's true enough; I procrastinate about housework, about doing things with the kids, about reading books, about writing, well, anything, and the list goes on. Hell, I'm even procrastinating over beta'ing a fic, and that's usually one of my better procrastination techniques.

The website says that I need to do three things: set goals, control stimuli, establish a routine. Since it's probably counterproductive to try and do all of these at once, maybe I'll start by listing out things that really do kind of need my attention, and then go from there. One of the less appealing aspects of being a stay-at-home-parent is that it works best if you've got great reserves of internal motivation; of course, grad students and scholars often thrive on external validation - or, at least, I did/do - so these are two mutually incompatible things that I seem to be caught in the middle of. It's...stressful, especially when I normally default to neat and organized; or, I did before the kids.

So, the list. )