I'm with you on #3. But I've found that I'm a lot less able to zoom through things than I was before, because the adrenaline tends to wear off quicker, leaving me with no energy and still a lot of work to do.
Oh my, oh my! That all sounds SO familiar!
I'm with you, Mel...
I think that discipline comes from a certain quality of engagement with the world in general. When I am in the flow, I don't procrastinate & I don't resent the many demands & uncertaintly of my job (& life in general). I just want to do stuff - I don't have to force myself or talk myself into it. I want to efficiently discharge my duties & move on to the next swamp to be drained. But when I am not in the flow, even stuff I want to do is still a burden. I avoid doing the very things that will help me get back into the flow. Then, I avoid, procrastinate & resent with the best of them!
I get caught up in justified procrastination which, due to its inherent nature, takes a little longer to recognize and thus rectify. "Sure, I may not be doing X but I'm doing A through W, all necessary to someone's existence..."
I so need to read Fiore. (Aha -- another book with which to procrastinate!) Seriously, though, the "resentment of authority" reason is, I think, the number one reason for my procrastination -- especially in the terms the intrusion that you describe.
You are ever wise, Mel. And now, thanks to you, I'm going to finish prepping tomorrow's class.
Are we all this bad ?
Oh, perhaps it should be pointed out that the above is a confession that I am worse.
Hmm. A bit of perfectionism here, a bit of resentment too -- but mostly a bad tendency to try to squeeze too many things into the last ten minutes before I have to be somewhere.
I think it's a survival mechanism.
Rana
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