We have all fallen for the trap. When we have an assignment, or a test, or some sort of thing that needs to be done, but we just can't get ourselves to be motivated enough to actually go do it. The more we put it off, the more we know that we'll be rushing to complete it and regretting we even put it off in the first place.

So my question to you all is this. What do you do when you procrastinate? Do you find yourself always (or usually) doing the same activity when you procrastinate? Do you spend your procrastination time in a weird or unusual hobby? Or are you just always on task and never procrastinate?


I'm procrastinating right now. '

yes i procrastinate by doing others tuff, shopping, frends, anything relaxing basically
that includes this forum...!!

yea im pocrastinating right now too lol

when i procrastinate i actually find myself going through sites or just chattin with friends..however there r some times when i forget wat i was doing while procrastinating, and it could have been the night b4 too!

hehe yeh ! i think i just learned a new word: pracastinating hehe, didnt know that was an action. but yeh when i have some loads of workd o do at school i always do it at the last minutes. most of the time i go on the net to chat or else i watch tv and listen to music lol ^^''

Procrastinate ! What is that exactly mean I couldn't find that in my old dictionary is that a new word ? What is the definition of this word ?

Procrastinate: To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness. To postpone or delay needlessly. (dictionary.com)

yeah, i try to do my work ahead of time instead of putting it off so i don't have too much of a workload.

Ok now that I know what it means ,so I am going to use it to one of my fellow worker at work, I hope he is not going to jump up to what I said. Hehe... '

hmm good question. I do the most random things when I procrastinate. I do random things on the computer, like writing in this forum. And I love chinese/taiwanese/korean dramas. Muahha..yeah that's what I do when I procrastinate.

I always procastinate. When i'm procastinating on one of my assigment, i am usually on the computer just on myspace or chatting. But after on friday, april 21, i had to pull an all-nighter for procastinating on a project for history that could have been half way done over spring break. LOL. I was just soo tired and hope i won't ever have to pull an all nighter again.

yeah, i procrastinate! i have two essays to do and i'm back at school on tueday lol

i havea tendency to procrastinate too but i never wait till the last minute though. its because im a perfecionist sometimes...id hate it when things go wrong..lol.

you gotta admit, everybody must have procrastinated in their lives I always seem to do it when i've got assignments to do especially when i cant thik of what to write i tend to surf on the net and end watsing a whole day very very bad either that or i end up watching TVB programmes and they get so adictive but i love watching them

computer [laptop] xD
it's basically my life. lol
ehe. but i find that i work better under pressure.

YES i'm always doing nothing in front of the computer but i don feel like doing any HOME WORK its just my laziness

i seem to always procrastinate, it's like a bad habbit now. everytime when i don't feel like doing a project, i just do other things online. there's always something i rather do. i always say, maybe i shouldn't procrastinate..... but only once in a while i will stop procrastinate and go back to my project. there's only been a few times where i actually start doing my assignments first.

Since I have found AF, Im frequently online and now you can call me a pervert, super addicted to this wonderful site. Well, in the past I have to spend 10-15 min. everyday to do my administration on my computer. So now I'm only spending my computer time to AF. What's the result? Have to do all the administration for 1 quarter in just 2-3days... ' Sometimes working nights long throught to finish the necessary things first. Like now, just finished it. I'm a bit late, could be done 2weeks ago

Well, you can call that procrastination?

I have a promblem with leaving everything til the last minute. I'm leaving for vacation in like 1 dayz and i'm barely done packing i still got a lot to do... I dunno I guess that it'z just a habit of leaving everything til the last minute for mee. ...

Do anyone do the same thing as me?...

But for me I leave everything til the last minute along with my homework. Sometimes I stay up til 2:00 am doing my h/w...

That's just like me.
I'm trying to stop procrastinating so much when I get back to class.

my trick is i'll tell myself do it now or never. it works cause i get motivated since i know i gotta get it done with somehow.

I try to do everything asap. I would get anxiety attacks if i keep waiting til last min!

I'm 32 and have yet to kick the habit. Most of the time I try to get the big things out of the way first and then concentrate on the little things. When that doesn't work, I focus on knocking out the little things, so I don't have to worry about forgetting them. Then I try to get comfortaable with the big projects. Needless to say, I still barely keep up. I'm like that with my bills. I'm ALWAYS PARANOID about forgetting things, that I forget about the big stuff. Viscious cycle, I know. It's worse when I write it down and prioritize, because I'm just wasting more time. At least, that's what it feels like.

try making a schedule and following it. It may be hard but try to to used to it. Plus, when doing homework, do things that are not due the next day, earlier. About packing, I think everyone does that last minute xD. Just try packing a bit at different times or make a list of everything and just chuck everything in when you find the items. I'm also a procrastinator =]

same for me .. i do it all the time in school .. projects, assignments, and such .. i know it the worst habit ever .. and sometimes i end up not doing the assignment at all .. or most of the time =p .. i may be the BIGGEST procrastinator ever =[ .. i gotta work on this next year for sure .. sigh ..

i am just like you 100%... last year i was going to hk... i packed THE MORNING OF THE FLIGHT... and my flight was at 8am... ! its something hard to break but witha little effort it will go away...

doing thing last minute might not be a good idea...you might make last minute wrong decisions...try to think a little ahead and so some planning.

Thats a very bad habbit but I have the same problem. sometimes even need to stay up overnight to finish my work.

i procastinate all the time, especially for school work. I guess i put off things that i do not like for the last minute, like papers on subjects i find boring. and also studying for tests. i leave everthing for last minute. when i procastinate i usually do things that i would not find myself doing if i had better things to do. i usually clean up instead of writting my papers or studying. i have been soo lazy that i have typed a 5 page paper overnight , so its pretty bad. its a bad habit that takes a lot of time to change, i've been trying to not procastinate, but sometimes i cant help it and do it anyways.

its because i always think i have enough time to fo it alter, and that i dont need to do it straight away,not because watching tv is more important, just ifeel that i have enough time to sit down and do it alter the night before.. but every time i jsut end up panicking and rushing to finish it before the deadline. >__<

It's a habit that I always hold onto... sigh.... I guess there is no motivation to work until there is pressure for you to do so.

procrastinating is horrible but i cant help but do it cause theres just so much things that you can do for fun like watching shows and hanging out with friends...=)

there are time we can procrastinate and other time we can't. being lazy doesn't mean that we can procrastinate.

I only procrastinate at the end of the skool year.. feels like the skool year is already over so I get lazy about stuff. Do HW last minute, study last minute, but I still get my A heehhe =]

that's one of the adjective to describe me ... the worst is that i know that what's killing me ... yet i still to the last second to correct myself .. which sucks big time .. let's see if i bigger lesson comes along in order for me to correct myself

While procrastinating, I try to convince myself to believe that I am doing otherwise. It's a complete case of denial.
If it comes in the form of watching tv/anime, reading manga, I claim it gives me inspiration.
If it comes in the form of going on these forums (as I am doing right now), I claim that I am seeking advice, picking up sources to expand my knowledge.
If it comes in the form of sleeping, I claim that it is an energizing nap, which of courses, energizes me for the task to come.
If it comes in the form of "resting my head", I claim that it is when my mind works the best, planning everything else before hand.
Reality checks never occur... unless in the forms of 'tomorrow is far away... ', or 'oh think about it, even if you don't finish this, you'll still be living, breathing, and elligible to experience joys of this world,' or 'it's not like anyone else is actually doing their work'.
It isn't until that I am actually in class doing the assignment due that period that I realized I procrastinated.
But the cycle repeats.

ohhh...i have turned into a procrastinator...it is soo bad...i go on msn and chat wit friends when i procrastinate...but mostly i start cleaning anything i see in the house lol...an excuse to get away from the studying...i think...i mostly procrastinate for exams...dont really leave assignments till the last minute when i can start and finishe em early =D

i have always procrastinated. I can't not do it. I procrastinate in everything. From homework and studying to washing the dishes. I am just lazy. No excuse about it.

procrastinate is my first name! hehe. i guess it's something that i have since young! hehe

Isn't weird when you are procrastinating, the most common/mundane/useless things all of a sudden becomes items of interest? You must do it then and there, that dust on the blinds? Why it's so dirty, you must clean it, and you know for the past 2 years, you haven't even remotely thought about cleaning it. Vacumming your room? Wow, what a wonderful idea, yea it's been so long since you last vacummed it.

I hate my procrastinating brain, it's so devious because it always come up with very logical answers to my procrastinating ideas. Of course, my logical brain cannot refute its logic and fall victim to it all the time.

i do that all the time when im in school but when im with my friends that only happens sometimes.

I procrastinate all the time and i know evenually work has to be done. I know it a bad habit but feel no need to change it.

I oso procrastinate, always put less time for my work and more time for other things

Procrastinating pretty much ruled my grade school days. Come high school, however, I learned to get things done ahead of time. I crack under pressure so I tend to come up with substandard results when I hold things off until the last minute. Plus I'm trying to steer clear of stress, so the absence of worrying about meeting deadlines contributes to loosening up.

I procrastinate everything. Gyeaa Queen of Procrastination here!
I do my homework, projects, study & etc at hte last minute.

I used to procrastinate on EVERYTHING, but you will learn that it just stresses you out even more. I slowly learned to make a list and prioritize things and take it slowly... it beats the massive tense every time...

I procrastinate a lot! It's so crazy how I'm still able to get my assignments done on time thought. It's weird how when it's the first week of school i'll be so motivated. I'm like I gotta stop procrastinating cause I know I gotta work hard but then the week after that I start to throw it aside and don't look at it until the day before. I feel like when I do it last minute my work is actually better than when I put a lot of thought into it. It's so weird...

i procastinate every single time i get an assignment...its like becoming a habit now! I try every time to finish the assignment early but it never happens...i always do other things instead like watch tv or go on internet or go out or something!

Whenever I procrastinate, I often distract myself online with games, chatting, surfing the web, or even posting in forums (like this one!). But whenever I procrastinate and do other activities, I still have that burden at the back of my mind that is consciously aware that I still have to complete that task that I've been putting off. So even if I'm having fun doing other stuff, it still bothers me a bit that I still have something I need to do. But if I finish completing that task, whatever activity I do I enjoy it more since I won't have to worry about anything.

I like to prorastinate sometimes, but I try to control myself to get things done then i could do whateva i want. It is just a better feeling to have dings done with and don't have to worry about ne more and then enjoy oneself. If i procrastinate too much, i have doubt that I'll get dings done. But that's my way of doing things. i got friends that like procrastinate to the last minute and does well. That's because they like to work under the pressure and drinkin coffee all night to stay awake to get the assignment done. That's not how i would like to torture myself. Here's a quote that may sound about right, "procrastination is like masturbation, you'll end up screwing yourself" =p

Procrastination is the thief of time. Well, i know that but because of human being, cant avoid it! i always procrastinate by watching drama, listening to music, sleep spending my time reading forum (here), just do whatever i like.