You can read Procrastination For Introverts Part 1 here.
Here Are 15 High-Quality Things I Achieved When I Should Have Been Working*
- Considered the pros and cons of getting another Siamese fighting fish.
- Remembered the scores of tiny fish carcasses I’d disposed of over the years, and thought, Yeah maybe no.
- Contemplated switching careers and becoming an infographic designer.
- Failed to create even the most basic infographic and abandoned the effort in a blaze of obscenities.
- Repurposed an empty candle holder as a hair clip dispenser.
- Found I only had two hair clips, which looked tragic in the repurposed candle holder and made me sad.
- Cheered myself up with a snack of sweet potato crisps, using a tiny bowl to keep my portion size small.
- Refilled the bowl 17 times.
- Lay down and rubbed my tummy while deciding to never again keep sweet potato crisps in the house.
- Wrote this.
- Researched getting a turtle.
- Did the menu planning for dinner. (Planned to order New York and Casablanca from the menu at Gourmet Pizza Kitchen. Secret ingredient: ask for the pizzas to be well done.)
- Fell into the Facebook vortex. Made hilarious and not-at-all obnoxious comments on friends’ posts.
- Forgot that Craig was recording a podcast and belted out a colossally off-key rendition of I Knew You Were Waiting.
- Put sweet potato crisps on the shopping list.
Procrastination For Creative Writers
If you struggle with procrastination, this course sounds perfect. I’m enrolling today tomorrow!
Cartoon credit: Tom Gauld
Coming Soon: Procrastination For Introverts Part 3
If you’d like some actual strategies for making peace with procrastination, then look out for the final part in this series later this week:
Procrastination For Introverts Part 3:
4 Procrastination Insights That Changed The Way I Work.
Don’t worry, you can read it later.
*Originally published at micheleconnolly.com.