Of Procrastination...

There are 30 minutes (33 for you pedants,) left until the New Year. This year I count down in the comfort and warmth of my own home, with my wonderful girlfriend, who is asleep on the sofa next to me, blissfully unaware of the time. I'm watching spectacularly terrible television and generally find myself at peace.

Well, almost...

You see, all I can think of is: "Shit, my god damn exams are in 12 days and I don't know a God damn thing."

My Uni exams begin on the 12th, and boy, have I been the king of procrastination over the festive season. I've employed every procrastination technique that exists, from cooking food, to cleaning, to writing a blog. Hell, I even postponed revising for exams by doing irrelevant things that I had procrastinated away from doing previously.

One of my New Years resolutions was to maintain this blog, but some of you keen beans may have noticed that I started in December '08. theres a very good reason for this, its because I need to get into the habit, and whilst the prospect of writing a blog seemed quite boring, it was invariably less boring than revision, and so, took priority.

I have found the secret behind procrastination, and how to deal with it. It revolves around two key facts:

1. One only procratinates around things they do not want to do
2. There is a mental prioritisation of things to do, and the least desirable of two options always loses

Sounds elementry I'm sure you'll agree. So heres the crux of it all, if theres something rubbish you need to do, the only thing that you need to motivate you is something even more rubbish you need to do.

A wonderful life lesson there from me, unfortunately, writing this blog did not prove to be the "more rubbish" thing, and it won. Plus, there are some jobs where doing nothing at all, is actually more desirable - I call these tasks, pure evil. Financial and Investment Mathmatics is a good example of pure evil.

I've waffled away far too much time, and now, with 12 days left, the New Year dawning, and impending doom just over the horizon, I've decided to actually do some work. But only after tomorrow of course, it's New Years Day tomorrow, and nobody works on New Years Day...

Oh dear.

Dom