A friend of mine whose bread and butter is creating business plans for companies asked me to help her edit for her. ย I jumped at the chance. ย Sounds so easy but now that I’m actually looking at the thing it’s suddenly looks like gibberish. ย  BLECH!!!

If I read the business plan she sent me, which she said was started already, I understand what the company is about; same for the company’s framework (where they tell me all about them). ย The things is that each of these 23 – page long documents do not seem to be about the same company…..maybe she sent me the wrong documents….I’m so confused but instead of calling her to get clarification like a rational person I’ve just thrown my hands up in the air and have now spent two hours going through my wordpress reader, following links here and there, checking my email, got lost on tumblr, had some tea, and spend an exorbitant amount of time looking at pictures of Richard Armitage….sigh….

According to the “You are not so smart” blog, procrastination is fueled by weakness in the face of impulse and a failure to think about thinking. Weakness….hmm….am I weak? ย Perhaps, I am….sigh….. ย oooohhhh doesn’t Richard look incredible in this picture?

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18 responses to “Procrastinating”

  1. kathrynruthd Avatar

    I throw my hands up at the slightest little thing at home…actually, to be fair, I don’t usually get as far as attempting it. It could be cleaning, cooking, writing…anything! Wen I was working I was quite the opposite while at work but just the same at home. The lure of the sofa and the TV is just too much ๐Ÿ˜‰

    1. lamaruca Avatar

      Glad to know I’m not alone, Kathrynruthd! My greatest temptation is the internet….Currently we don’t have a sofa…we started rearranging furniture and where going to swap the office furniture from the breakfast room to the dinning room but the project is at a standstill due to over scheduling. Presently the dinning table is in the living room where the sofa should be and half the office is in one room while half is in the other….it’s all so heavy I couldn’t possibly move it all by myself…sometimes I think I’ve figured out a way but then I get trapped online reading all the lovely posts on any number of blogs I follow, scrolling through tumblr, pinning on pinterest or stumbling on stumbleupon…and of course there are the various unofficial Richard Armitage websites….. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      1. kathrynruthd Avatar

        Yep…the Internet is extremely distracting too but I tend to lie on the sofa and watch TV while surfing the net. It’s a deadly combination ๐Ÿ˜‰

      2. lamaruca Avatar

        Ouch! that IS a deadly combination! I have to admit that though my niece keeps me busier now when she was a few months younger I too succumbed to this combination as well…. ๐Ÿ˜€

  2. Marie Astra Avatar

    Sad to say, but I totally relate to this! My job is incredibly hard and responsible and complicated. I find myself staring at my Twitter feed (mostly RArmitage) on my iPhone many times during the day. Because of REASONS!! I need a break!! And then there’s the blogs I follow….And then there’s email!! HAVE to check it!!

    1. lamaruca Avatar

      yes, those pesky reasons are far too many!!! One must find a way to cope…. ๐Ÿ˜‰

  3. AgzyM Avatar

    When I was writing my MA thesis and hot the wall due to a mean writer’s block that lasted months I’d literally hide out on tumblr. I’d just watch the posts go by, wouldn’t engage or interact. It was my one safe heaven in very choppy seas. Yes, I was procrastinating, but in truth I think it helped me to maintain a balance and not go insane.
    Not all procrastination is bad, as long as you can draw the line and meet the deadline ๐Ÿ˜‰

    1. lamaruca Avatar

      I like how you think! As long as the work gets done on time a bit of “creative inspiration” is justified. ๐Ÿ˜€

  4. Perry Avatar

    So, not only do we all procrastinate- but we procrastinate engaged in the same activities as each other.

    1. lamaruca Avatar

      Great minds think alike AND need constant stimulation…. ๐Ÿ˜‰

  5. obscura Avatar

    I concur with all of the above…I wonder what the person writing the blog about procrastination is supposed to be doing instead? ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. lamaruca Avatar

      I imagine he is simply writing about what he knows, which means he probably spends loads of time procrastinating and now that he is an expert he can write about the subject in detail and wag his all-knowing finger at the rest of us whilst making money off of those that purchase his books….just a thought though… ๐Ÿ˜‰

      1. obscura Avatar

        I was thinking something similar ๐Ÿ˜€

  6. […] Now I understand what someone meant (sorry, I’ve forgotten who said this to me) that Armitageworld sort of loses intellectual energy when new material appears. Not that it’s bad, but the power differential between Armitage and fans changes and we’re all kind of knocked on our asses for a while. And then we procrastinate! […]

  7. Bollyknickers Avatar
    Bollyknickers

    There is a theory that procrastination is actually very productive – because of all those little jobs we find to do when putting off something else. However, I’m not sure how staring at RA on a screen can fall into that category!

    1. lamaruca Avatar

      yeah, I don’t think I get anything done while staring at pictures of RA…I am so mesmerized by his beauty that I am unable to do much else but stare and swoon….

    1. lamaruca Avatar

      Thanks for the mention! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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