Comments for On Procrastination at http://www.projecttimes.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.projecttimes.com Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:03:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.projecttimes.com/ilya-bogorad/on-procrastination.html#comment-116 That's a grand idea. Once you are up and running, give me a shout and I'll put it on my to-do list to check it out. ;) Ilya - ibogorad Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:03:49 +0100 http://www.projecttimes.com/ilya-bogorad/on-procrastination.html#comment-115 Ilya - I am thinking on starting a procrastinators blog and will let you know when I get around to it ... - martinhughharvey Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:57:50 +0100 http://www.projecttimes.com/ilya-bogorad/on-procrastination.html#comment-95 Thank you for your comment. At a danger of offending a lot of MBTI practitioners out there, the reliability and validity of the test is under question. In fact, when retaken within a month, some 50 per cent of the subjects change their "code". There is of course no shortage of bobos who issue mugs to their constituents, with the appropriate 4-letter MBTI code on it. This is stereotyping at its worst. And now that my run on MBTI is finished, thank you very much for your contribution. - ibogorad Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:32:13 +0100 http://www.projecttimes.com/ilya-bogorad/on-procrastination.html#comment-94 Dear Ilya, Perhaps your not cleaning out your garage has nothing to do with procrastination. Perhaps it just isn't of a very high value or priority to you. Maybe you are like the legion of other folks who make up a list as a menu of possibilities - not really as a to be done list, rather as a list of things I'm currently thinking I might do. One clear step would be to let yourself off the hook - if you don't want to clean your garage, don't. If you really do want a clean garage, I'm wondering what it is that you do want - what your clean garage will allow you to do that you really DO want to do! To-do lists are used really differently by 'closure' and 'new beginnings' people - closure people get great satisfaction by having things decided. For those of you familiar with Myers Briggs - these are the J's in life. They are the ones who sentence the rest of us to time management training, accurately time box their work (and execute according to plan), and make us feel inadequate when our SOP doesn't align with theirs. We 'new beginnings' people are motivated by starting up new things. (Myers Briggs Ps) If I need to get a task done - especially one that isn't very exciting - I consider what I will be able to start that I really want to do once I get all of that mess cleared up. Or I schedule something for that space that I know I'll need to have it clean in order to do. Get it? Focus on what I want and what I want to do rather than what I have to get done. This little bit magic might help you be a bit easier on yourself and actually get the garage cleaned up - if, indeed, it needs to be cleaned up. For those of you who identify more strongly as closure folks, understanding this feature of your 'new beginnings' cohorts, can help you both stay sane without name calling or reform school! - amyschwab Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:31:46 +0100