Rearranging

I had an epiphany in class today, while waiting for lecture to start. I am acting far too childish for my age.

I have let the excitement of being in college, making new friends, and having wireless ethernet distract me from my purpose for being in college in the first place. I am here to work. I am here to learn so that I can get a career that I actually like after I graduate. All of this procrastination that I have been doing is childish behavior that I should have grown out of a long while ago. So, I will rearrange my room, and use that as a physical representation of rearranging my priorities. Making a physical change is the best way for me to get out of a mental rut.

Having rearranged my room, I feel much more productive, even just sitting in my chair. I have changed the feel of the room completely, even thought I basically switched two pieces of furniture, the bed and my desk. The space I work in is more concentrated now, so I will be able to concentrate better.

There is some tweaking I have to do. I need get another power cord so that I can move my lamp, and I need to move my little bookshelf because I don’t like where it is now. And I need to maybe reposition my clock. Other than that I like the room much better this way. ^_^

Procrastination

Seeing as I've had such a problem with it lately, I thought I would look up the insightful or funny quotes that people have said about it.

Dedicated to my friend Marissa.

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Often, greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
-Harry A. Hopf

"One of these days" is none of these days.

Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today.

Procrastination is the thief of time.
-Edward Young

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.
-George H. Lorimer

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

-William James

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

-Don Marquis

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

-Charles Kingsley

If it weren’t for the last minute, I wouldn’t get anything done.

-Unknown

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

-Robert Benchley

There are a million ways to lose a workday, but not even a single way to get one back.

-Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

One of the greatest labor saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

-Vincent T. Foss

You may delay, but time will not.

-Benjamin Franklin

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

-Earl of Chesterfield

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

-Eva Young

Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.

-Mignon McLaughlin

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

-C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958

Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.

-Victor Kiam

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

-Olin Miller

More quotes available at http://www.quotegarden.com/procrastination.html

I’d write them, but I have a couple other things that I should have done yesterday. ^_^