Procastination

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Psychology Today - 4 Steps to Stop Procrastinating

It’s tempting to imagine that procrastination is a fairly recent phenomenon. Without the Internet at their desks, without smartphones in their pockets, how could previous generations possibly have killed an hour, a day, or more avoiding work that needed to be done? Somehow, they managed. In 1608, Captain John Smith founded the first British settlement in the Americas in what became Jamestown, Virginia. His account of life in the New World includes a lament that too many of the settlers “procrastinated the time” away. Needing dramatic action to gain the attention of his chronic time-wasters, Smith decreed that “He that will not work shall not eat.”

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Do you put things off?

I do- or do you get straight on with the task? It is easy to get distracted by the non essentials of life. I am building up to changing my duvet cover etc. It has been over a month since I changed them.

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