Procrastinating, procrastinating... Prograstinating

Oh, I am with you, it is so good to procrastinate. I went out and around town today. With it almost 80 degrees today, procrastinating was the best thing I could think of to do.

If we feel motivated for writing a topic, it is enough to have a small research about the topic and it could be completed within several minutes consecutively it will get quick approval from clients. Unless, it takes hours to complete a small article and there might be chance for rejections. If you think of walking outside or taking a cup of coffee or mylotting or browsing or relax yourself in some other way means it might be a chance for getting distractions. For example if you go outside, you will meet friends, so one kind of distraction. If you take a cup of coffee means, you must go outside as well as there are no shops open after 10 PM (My situation). You already familiar with mylotting as well as browsing. So what must be done at that time?? I simply follow one of our traditional method that drinking more water. I use to drink half of the 1000 ml water bottle for each completed article. Every thing is about habitting our actions.

I think the nice weather can effect how someone reacts to working inside. If there is a choice between beautiful and boring I know which one I would choose. Makes it difficult to focus on a project when it's boring. Speaking of procrastinators, I am the world's worst with so many things. I do eventually get things done. I blame it on my age and being lazy but it's gone beyond being lazy. Hope you do get your project completed in time.

It may be a stress factor, you know, since creativity and time-boundness do not quite go well together. For creativity to flourish, mind should be at its most relaxed, most playful, free of all impingement, whereas deadlines only serve to act in the opposite direction, putting a constraint to the liberty that creativity likes to thrive on. If you're writing non-fiction, though, then it's a different ball game - the one of putting mind over matter.

I cannot write if I have to research the material. I used to be able to, but I just can't do it anymore. I've grown too accustomed to procrastinating. I know something's definitely greener. It's just something that really bogs me down about having to check this source, that source, double-check it against that source, etc. If I only have to write, that's fine. I can write for days. But if I have to go through source after source and piece things together, I'm done after one or two articles. Even if I'm making $20 for 500 words, which is relatively high for a basic online article, I might turn it down if it's a subject I don't know anything about -- and especially if they want special formatting. You'd probably have to pay me $100 for all that nonsense. Once you research, write, edit, format, edit, write, edit and finalize, you've just completed about 8 different articles. In the time it takes me to do that, I can go write little spam jobs for a little bit of change per and actually earn more. And, being realistic, the average article out there is going for way less than $20. You can strike lucky sometimes, but if you're getting work in any abundance, it's probably a relatively low rate per article, as they're only purposed to be fresh convo starters or traffic drivers. Save some room in the puddle. The next time a client asks me to research to write something, I'm jumping in head first.

I think it has a lot to do with the topic. A writer who gets fired up or inspired by a topic could not stop the itch. He will be itching to put into writing his thoughts and feelings on the issue. However, if there isn't any interest on the topic, that's when procrastination happens.

I think you should avoid posting topics like this. It's contagious . Now I think I've also been bitten by this procrastination bug. Nope, I need to post, post, post... Probably in a little while.

For the record, I am delaying my report because I have my online routine to do before anything else. even though I will a terror day tomorrow, I think I am doing this because I am always a a last-to-the minute person, and somehow the procrastination works for me. Like you, I always seem to delay things and I have the habit of doing distractions and gratifications before work. perhaps it helps me from pulling my own hair and throwing my computer for a trivial reason. A walk really seems so nice. I could use seem good distractions but I guess I will better get going soon. After all, there are plenty of distraction from work after this.

Well the secret is to just do it and not think of anything else, lol. But that's really hard for most people. Ahem, why are you on MyLot when you have an article to be done? Get off and finish it and then go back! Actually, I'm pretty much a hypocrite for saying that since I'm procrastinating right now when I'm supposed to be exercising, studying my Chinese book along with finishing the homework, instead of browsing MyLot LOL.