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azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-24 01:57 am
azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-24 01:57 am
By Request: Azure's Method to Get Everything Done.
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powerhand:
You seem to live very active life. It would be nice to read about how you organize your timetables or do you perhaps take things as it comes? one gets often an impression that you are improvising most of the time and yet you have been a very succesful student and so on.
I tend to mix Very Structured with wild-ass improvization. Recently, I learned that my ideal organizational structure was to harness the power of procrastination.
I am a horrible procrastinator. When there's something I need to do and I don't want to do it, I will do anything and everything that's not that in order to avoid doing it.
I've therefore learned to harness the power of my procrastination. If I don't want to do my database homework, I look at my list of things I need to get done, and do my laundry, the dishes, sweep the floor, vacuum, change out the air fresheners, and scoop the catbox.
I have just put off doing my homework for another two hours. The house looks and smells great. (I may have been procrastinating on those things.) Suddenly, I realize that the next task that would have to be done is cleaning out the refrigerator.
Oh no!! The refrigerator! The scary refrigerator of doom with THINGS in the corners!
Hmm. Now, what was that database homework?
Practically speaking, schoolwork is a special case. I have been blessed with an extraordinary memory, and am generally good with computers and writing. Since the majority of my schoolwork is memorizing, and knowing how to look things up in manuals, and then writing with computers, I have it made. I'm especially lucky in that my father taught me how to think like a computer. This gets me through my classes without too much extraordinary effort on my part. Give me some simple SQL statements to code, and I'm a satisfied woman.
I harness my distractibility. Since I can't be relied upon to remember what I need to do at any given moment, I have my palmtop set to remind me not only where and when my classes are, but where and when I need to do other things, including brush my teeth... Inanna's also set to remind me about things like laundry, other housework, and when Bitchy Witchy Week is due.
There are days when I slack off: I collapse, usually from having done too much the day before. But, for the most part, I procrastinate, and things happen.
powerhand: You seem to live very active life. It would be nice to read about how you organize your timetables or do you perhaps take things as it comes? one gets often an impression that you are improvising most of the time and yet you have been a very succesful student and so on.
I tend to mix Very Structured with wild-ass improvization. Recently, I learned that my ideal organizational structure was to harness the power of procrastination.
I am a horrible procrastinator. When there's something I need to do and I don't want to do it, I will do anything and everything that's not that in order to avoid doing it.
I've therefore learned to harness the power of my procrastination. If I don't want to do my database homework, I look at my list of things I need to get done, and do my laundry, the dishes, sweep the floor, vacuum, change out the air fresheners, and scoop the catbox.
I have just put off doing my homework for another two hours. The house looks and smells great. (I may have been procrastinating on those things.) Suddenly, I realize that the next task that would have to be done is cleaning out the refrigerator.
Oh no!! The refrigerator! The scary refrigerator of doom with THINGS in the corners!
Hmm. Now, what was that database homework?
Practically speaking, schoolwork is a special case. I have been blessed with an extraordinary memory, and am generally good with computers and writing. Since the majority of my schoolwork is memorizing, and knowing how to look things up in manuals, and then writing with computers, I have it made. I'm especially lucky in that my father taught me how to think like a computer. This gets me through my classes without too much extraordinary effort on my part. Give me some simple SQL statements to code, and I'm a satisfied woman.
I harness my distractibility. Since I can't be relied upon to remember what I need to do at any given moment, I have my palmtop set to remind me not only where and when my classes are, but where and when I need to do other things, including brush my teeth... Inanna's also set to remind me about things like laundry, other housework, and when Bitchy Witchy Week is due.
There are days when I slack off: I collapse, usually from having done too much the day before. But, for the most part, I procrastinate, and things happen.
Thanks