{"id":2068,"date":"2013-03-18T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2013-03-18T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:01:04","slug":"procrastination-is-not-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/procrastination-is-not-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Procrastination is not worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year I have learned that procrastinating is not worth the pay off from procrastinating.<\/p>\n

So why do I procrastinate? What are the payoffs?<\/p>\n

– having fun doing other things instead of the thing that I put off doing.
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– doing easy things instead of tackling the difficulty of the thing that I am putting off<\/p>\n

– waiting as long as possible to leave myself open to be the best alternative that may come later.<\/p>\n

– hoping the thing that I’ve put off will get done by someone else.<\/p>\n

– hoping that thing that I put off will not need to be done if I waited long enough<\/p>\n

– just doing the thing quickly when the deadline approaches<\/p>\n

– waiting for more inspiration to do the thing so it can be more enjoyable<\/p>\n

– spending time reading and doing other good stuff and neglecting the thing that needs to get done<\/p>\n

In the past, I would be fine doing things last minute. I depended on my husband to fill in the gaps as I run around doing things at the last possible moment.<\/p>\n

But I found this year that the stress that comes from procrastinating is not worth it.<\/p>\n

In my new job<\/a> with 150 kids and 50+ volunteers under my care, I have to make sure I get things done. The buck stops with me.<\/p>\n

Here is an example.<\/p>\n

I have not firmed up the plans for Easter. I should have decided by last week at the least so I can be thoroughly prepared. But I kept looking for better options. Now I am feeling stressed. I couldn’t sleep well last night.<\/p>\n

So I am deciding today, that I don’t want to procrastinate. It’s not worth it.<\/p>\n

I don’t like that feeling of worrying because so many people are depending on me. I don’t like the stress I feel. I don’t want the pressure of running around last minute. I don’t want to under-prepare – I want to have time to be over-prepared.<\/p>\n

A big part of leadership is to communicate plans with others so that they can be on board. They need to know where I am going so that they have confidence to follow. I want to be a good leader.<\/p>\n

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This year I have learned that procrastinating is not worth the pay off from procrastinating. So why do I procrastinate? What are the payoffs? – having fun doing other things instead of the thing that I put off doing. – doing easy things instead of tackling the difficulty of the thing that I am putting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}