procrastination is just another word for laziness

"of course, if you really want something done badly enough, just do it yourself." - author unknown

if i had a nickel for every time that someone said to me, "i'll do it later," i would be a billionaire by now. or at least a millionaire. because you can dress up inactivity any way you like. and you can make up excuses until you're blue in the face. but in the end, you will never convince me that procrastination is anything other than a fancy five-dollar word for laziness.

now i once said that there is nothing i dislike more in another person than dishonesty. and when someone says that he will do something later, i know (and he knows) that he has no intention of ever completing that task. so you see, procrastination isn't just about laziness then. it's about being true (or untrue) to one's word.

quite frankly, i have never understood why someone would choose to complete later a task that he could just as easily choose to complete now. after all, by completing the task now, one leaves oneself the opportunity to complete another task later with the free time that has just been created. (um, i think that makes sense.)

and on an even more profound level, i wonder why it is in the first place that some folks choose to complete tasks as soon as they present themselves while other folks choose to plop themselves down in front of the tv and tell themselves that the task can wait until later. or put another way, why does it seem that some of us are hardwired to do as much as possible as soon as possible while others just don't seem to operate under that same sense of urgency? is it a question of nature versus nurture? is it an issue of age and maturity? or is it simply a matter of priorities?

once, out of curiosity, i asked one of my less "inspired" friends back in high school why it was that he seemed so reluctant to step up and get the job done when asked to do so by his parents or teachers. his response? "i have nothing much to do anyway, so what's the rush?" i guess what he meant was that he, personally, felt so little motivation to work hard because he had so little to fill his day with anyway, other than the one or two measly tasks he was typically responsible for. which leads to the chicken-or-egg-style query: does being busy lead to a strong work ethic or does a strong work ethic lead to being busy?

"you know what amazes me though? that there aren't more people out there who are like me." - anonymous

here's a suggestion as to something you can do with your free time:

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