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• Friday, March 7, 2008 05:09 PM

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  I feel for this person because I've gotten myself into some procrastination holes myself. Sadly, I don't have any good suggestions except to so *something*. The key for me was to just do *something*, *anything* to break the log jam. Just do a task that takes half an hour, but make yourself get it done. The next task will be a little bit easier.

  I do have a funny procrastination story though. There was a man who worked for me a few years ago. He was the world champion of procrastination. I wasn't in a position to fire him - I was kind of stuck with him, so I met with him every morning and demanded a specific complete task by the end of the day. The first day, it was something that would take a 'normal' person maybe half an hour to complete. We progressed from there, although the basis of his problem was, I suspect, depression, which I couldn't really help him with. That wasn't the funny part of the story. The funny part is that when left to his own devices, he spent entire weeks designing and posting a web page on 'how not to procrastinate'. This, was not anything even closely related to his job. But it has to be one of the most creative ways to procrastinate that I've ever seen. I'm just happy that the disruption in the time-space continuum caused by the act of procrastinating by telling people how not to procrastinate didn't suck him away to some alternate universe! On second thought, maybe that would have been better.

  Dang! Got to get back to work!

  —Demotage Read Demotage's other letters
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