|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Is procrastination a problem?
#7981868 - 02/05/08 09:29 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Maybe it's just a way of overriding programs that tell us that unimportant things are important.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
Edited by Icelander (02/06/08 08:53 PM)
|
Lion
Decadent Flower Magnate



Registered: 09/20/05
Posts: 8,775
Last seen: 3 days, 16 hours
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7981879 - 02/05/08 09:33 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
I don't know. Sometimes I have this flash of insight where I can see the false energy pattern that I identify with as "me" draining me of the energy to do things I know would be beneficial to me in the long run to do. When I see this happening it's like uggghhhhhh. I think we have control over what to do at all times and that most of the time we are being actively drained by a false self that is unhappy for no good reason.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
|
WScott
´ ɑ `▽ ᑲᓇᑕ



Registered: 07/31/05
Posts: 5,713
Loc: Nacada
Last seen: 9 months, 15 days
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7981891 - 02/05/08 09:35 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Depends on the circumstance. If you're overweight and it is affecting your well-being, procrastinating in regard to exercise and a diet change would be a problem. If I have a large book that I have been wanting to read but just haven't taken the time to sit down and open it up, maybe your idea would be right. If the interest just isn't large enough to motivate, than how beneficial would it be if I were to 'force myself' to do it.
--------------------

|
Boots
Disenchanted


Registered: 07/25/07
Posts: 1,137
Loc: Northwood, Ohio, U.S.A.
Last seen: 15 years, 2 months
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: WScott]
#7981905 - 02/05/08 09:42 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
It depends on what I'm procrastinating. Inherently, no, procrastination is not a problem.
|
deranger


Registered: 01/21/08
Posts: 6,840
Loc: off the wall
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Lion]
#7981936 - 02/05/08 09:51 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Lion said: I don't know. Sometimes I have this flash of insight where I can see the false energy pattern that I identify with as "me" draining me of the energy to do things I know would be beneficial to me in the long run to do. When I see this happening it's like uggghhhhhh.
"ugghhhhh" as in orgasmic?
|
deranger


Registered: 01/21/08
Posts: 6,840
Loc: off the wall
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7981944 - 02/05/08 09:53 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
there will always be some procrastination in my case (at times may be a problem), but how much of this procrastination turns into action is what arouses my attention.
|
dblaney
Human Being

Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 7,894
Loc: Here & Now
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Lion]
#7982014 - 02/05/08 10:16 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Lion said: I don't know. Sometimes I have this flash of insight where I can see the false energy pattern that I identify with as "me" draining me of the energy to do things I know would be beneficial to me in the long run to do.
"If you want to describe its essence, the best you can say is 'Not-two.' In this 'Not-two' nothing is separate, and nothing in the world is excluded."
For some reason that quote came to mind when I read your post. Anyways, yeah procrastination sucks. I think in my case it's often just a result of clinging: wanting to enjoy the pleasure of not doing whatever it is for just a little while longer. It's not such a bad thing.
-------------------- "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?" "Belief is a beautiful armor But makes for the heaviest sword" - John Mayer Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
|
MushroomTrip
Dr. Teasy Thighs



Registered: 12/02/05
Posts: 14,794
Loc: red panda village
Last seen: 2 years, 10 months
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7982335 - 02/05/08 11:38 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Icelander said: Maybe it's just a way of overriding programs that tell us that unimportant things are important.
I don't know if this applies to all cases, but I think you're just about right. It seems to be rooted in there. If I take a closer look at the things I mostly delay, it IS because I don't consider them to resonate to who I am. But what I have also noticed is that there are other times in which I procrastinate out of inertia. It's like this transfer of attitudes produces, making me sometimes mindlessly indulge laziness in some aspects that I find important.
--------------------
   All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: MushroomTrip]
#7982414 - 02/05/08 12:04 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
We're funny animals all right.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
|
PhanTomCat
Teh Cat....



Registered: 09/07/04
Posts: 5,908
Loc: My Youniverse....
Last seen: 14 years, 11 months
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7983461 - 02/05/08 05:13 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Icelander said: Maybe it's just a way of overriding programs that tell us that unimportant things are important.
Do you mean "is a pro car station a problem?" - if yes, then I don't see it as an actual problem.... Otherwise, from a fellow procrastinator, I will get back to you on this....

Without contexts, it is too difficult to answer.... However, I have never had any serious consequences due to my procrastination (yet)....
>^;;^<
-------------------- I'll be your midnight French Fry.... "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
|
Huehuecoyotl
Fading Slowly


Registered: 06/13/04
Posts: 10,685
Loc: On the Border
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7983519 - 02/05/08 05:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Why bother worrying about this right now?
-------------------- "A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda
|
NiamhNyx
I'm NOT a 'he'



Registered: 09/01/02
Posts: 3,198
Last seen: 14 years, 8 months
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7984274 - 02/05/08 08:11 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
I'm a brutal procrastinator, but then I do my best work under pressure so maybe it's not so bad. I always start it with enough time to complete it well. I begin papers at least 3 days before they're due. But hell, I get mostly A's so it seems to work fine, aside from the stressful frenzy aspect of it.
|
NiamhNyx
I'm NOT a 'he'



Registered: 09/01/02
Posts: 3,198
Last seen: 14 years, 8 months
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7984303 - 02/05/08 08:15 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Oh yeah, and mindless pleasure is important too. Going out with friends, playing guitar, tidying the house, arguing with people on the internet- all of these things are a part of a full life. Procrastinating is only a problem when one is bad at managing themselves at recognizing when they really can't afford to procrastinate any longer.
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
#7985931 - 02/06/08 09:18 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Huehuecoyotl said: Why bother worrying about this right now?
What me worry?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7985935 - 02/06/08 09:19 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
NiamhNyx said: I'm a brutal procrastinator, but then I do my best work under pressure so maybe it's not so bad. I always start it with enough time to complete it well. I begin papers at least 3 days before they're due. But hell, I get mostly A's so it seems to work fine, aside from the stressful frenzy aspect of it.
Nice to hear about your life but that does not address my question.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
|
mushbaby
woodswalker




Registered: 09/30/06
Posts: 2,645
Loc: in my own lil world
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7988401 - 02/06/08 07:15 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Procrastination isn't a problem for me, but I don't think that's what you are really asking. But that's what I'm gonna answer. Because Phantomcat took my answer! I was gonna say "I"ll tell you later."
I'm the type who does best with a deadline and always gets it done just barely in time. Drives other people crazy. I feel more energized knowing it's got to get done NOW. But it's possible that things won't always get done to the best of someone's ability if they are rushed.
|
NiamhNyx
I'm NOT a 'he'



Registered: 09/01/02
Posts: 3,198
Last seen: 14 years, 8 months
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7988443 - 02/06/08 07:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
I think that my life experience is entirely relevant. You asked if procrastination is a problem, and from my own experience, I answered yes and no.
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7989049 - 02/06/08 08:46 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Yeah I forgot about the title of the thread but how about this? Maybe it's just a way of overriding programs that tell us that unimportant things are important.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
|
LunarEclipse
Enlil's Official Story



Registered: 10/31/04
Posts: 21,407
Loc: Building 7
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: Icelander]
#7989075 - 02/06/08 08:51 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
It's a problem when you mispell it. Procarstination indeed.
Now as to the fine art of postponing the inevitable it's worth a try what have you got to lose but time? Indeed.
-------------------- Anxiety is what you make it.
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Re: Is procarstination a problem? [Re: LunarEclipse]
#7989085 - 02/06/08 08:53 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
oops
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
|
|