• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Subscribe
  • The Frugal Girl

Kristen, prompted

March 1, 2022

Are you a procrastinator?

Generally, no.

I usually like to get things done ahead of time, if possible.

Monday calendar

For instance, when I was 18, in my first year of college, my psych syllabus included three writing assignments, due at any time during the semester.

I was taking a very full load of classes and I figured I’d be busy at the end of the semester, so I knocked out all three of the papers before the first month of classes was over.

I really don’t like to have things hanging over my head!

Also, I am not a person that functions terribly well under a deadline. I like to have margin and wiggle room, so leaving things until the last minute feels not-good to me.

So, in my current college classes, I pretty much always do my homework and quizzes before they are due. And last spring in my online biology class, when we had multi-day windows of time to do our exams, I always chose to study early and take mine on the early end.

Now, this is not to say I am utterly free of procrastination. Sometimes a task is so odious to me, I will put it off for a while. For instance, I do not like doing my taxes, and I usually owe money anyway, so I generally procrastinate on those a bit.

(To wit, I have not started on this year’s taxes. Doing something tedious in order to get a bill at the end? No fun at all!)

So. There are exceptions, but in general, the balance in my life sways more toward the not-procrastinating side of things.

« If money was no object, where would you live? How would you spend your time?
The three words every woman wants to hear »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Barb F. says

    March 01, 2022 at 11:43 am

    /big fat procrastinator here. Always have leaned that way. It only bites me now on laundry day. I have 2 sets of sheets so that one goes on the bed and the other goes in the laundry and on the clothsline (always on a suitable day. The problem is I don’t always get the bed remade before bedtime (groan). I have started putting on the bottom sheet, at least, while removing the dirty one. Saves steps.

    Reply
  2. getting there says

    March 01, 2022 at 12:59 pm

    I am a huge procrastinator, and I hate it. Despise it with the heat of a thousand suns. I once (inadvertently) read something online that someone like should never have encountered. “If you leave it till the last minute, then it only takes a minute to do it.” To someone like me, that logic is just pure genius.

    Procrastination is an everyday battle with me…

    Reply
  3. JD says

    March 01, 2022 at 1:56 pm

    Yes and no? Like Kristen, a task I hate might get put off a good while. A task I don’t want to face later, at a time when there will be better things to do, I’ll jump on ahead of time and get it out of the way, but normally I simply meet deadlines, without being either too early or last minute.

    I have two kids – one is a born procrastinator, and the other one is a “get it done early” type. We had an interesting time of it with them.

    Reply
  4. Lynda W. says

    March 01, 2022 at 2:38 pm

    I’m the opposite with classes and deadlines. I do my best work when the deadline I tomorrow or the nxt day and I haven’t started yet. But I do work ahead when I’m cooking.

    Reply

Leave a comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

What’s Kristen Prompted?

It’s me, writing from a list of daily prompts!

Although I always have a lot going on in my head, those thoughts can tend to stay cooped up in my brain.

But when I’m asked what I think about something, then I feel like I have permission to let some of my thoughts out.

So, this blog is a collection of daily essays, written because the list of daily prompts gave me permission to type. 😉

My main blog is The Frugal Girl, if you’d like to read more of my words!

Subscribe to get posts via email!

* indicates required

Archives

Copyright © 2023 Kristen, prompted on the Brunch Pro Theme