Now i'm not up here to advocate procrastination, because lets face it, i probably don't need to. But I am up her to introduce you to a concept

that turns procrastinators into effective human beings, constructive procrastination. At its basic level, constructive procrastination is the justification that whatever you are doing to avoid work will actually have a positive effect on your work. It's the art of making this bad trait work for you.

Some of you might be saying, you can call it whatever you want, but a procrastinator is a procrastinator. Keep in mind, procrastinators do absolutely nothing when they should be painting the house, Consruct

Let me show you how constructive procrastination works.

return to the stage of denial, nor can you begin the designated task.

ive procrastinators do marginally useful things while they should be painting, like organizing your socks by color, or sharpening every pencil in the house.

Now just because a person has put off one or two projects does not mean they are necessarily a procrastinator by nature. It means that they are human. In order to become a procrastinator a person must continually complete the cycle of denial, constructive alternatives, and panic.

Dispite what most people say about procrastination, it can actually be a very positive thing, since a person learns how to work under pressure. In high school and college you always get a good reasonable chunk of time to do essays, reports, and projects. In the real world you don't always get such a grace period. A constructive procrastinator faced with a big project and a two day deadline will do just fine under pressure, and probably would've done it the same way had he been given two weeks. A non-procrastinator might buckle under pressure, panic, and bomb the project because he just doesn't know how to do good work with a pressing deadline. Another benefit of procrastinating is that the person who waits to the last minute to write a paper might be able to incorporate recently learned information into the paper. Another benefit is that the looming deadline might lead to more efficient behavior by the procrastinator. In this case, procrastination is a pretty effective time!

For those of you who procrastinate and have no intentions of ever changing, there's lots of stuff for you too. Theres some societies for procrastinators, there's clubs for procrastinators, and for those of you who want to further your procrastination, it seems like the entire purpose of the internet these days. The number of web sites totally dedicated to killing time while your on the job is just crazy. in your packet theres a list of Procrastination web sites,

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