Everyone does it...
Procrastination.
It comes in all shapes and sizes. Maybe you just slack off on writing that paper due on Friday. Maybe you choose to work on homework that could easily be done during lunch or a free period to put off the real work for just a little longer.
It seems so harmless when you’re doing it. You can fool yourself, saying that you’ll start in five more minutes. But after that there are five more minutes, aren’t there? It is a dreadful cycle that keeps going like the Energizer Bunny.
But at one point or another we all realize that there is no more time to mess around, and we seriously have to get down to work. However, this often comes too late for us to really make good use of our time. There is little time to stop and think. Some of us work well under stress, or so we tell ourselves. But out work may turn out sloppy and rushed where we could easily have done better given just a little more time. All the suffering in the short amount of time that we actually work could be prevented if we just used the extra time that we had. Our quality of work and our grades would probably improve if we just sat down and did our work at the beginning.
We all know this. Yet procrastination still remains oh so very … alluring.
— Deren Kudeki