I just need to vent a little. I'm a hopeless procrastinator. I plan and plan and eventually get around to doing whatever I need to do - usually on top of a deadline. And I can't help but panic and wonder if the work wouldn't be better if I'd done it sooner - for my credit it usually ends up with good results anyway.
But on those rare ocasions when I actually can finish the work with a lot of time to spare I end up doing anything else I can think of with my time to avoid the most urgent task - including this thread... And I can only finish the work when the dreaded "panic hour" arrives.
Be at peace: we're talking college papers here. I'm not a neurosurgeon or a structural engineer or something that implies life and death decisisons. And I'm currently talking about a news story about farming habits in the middle of the city that needs to be written in less than 30 hours - all interviews done and edited. It's doable, but it could have been finished Monday if I hadn't become antsy everytime I opened the word document of doom for the last month or so.
Confused? So am I.
My stress levels go up everytime I try to finish the paper and I can only deal with it (knowing from past experience) in the last 24 hours before deadline. But I still get anxious because I start to believe that the outcome could be better.
Do you have any advice for me? Do you deal with the same problem? And if you do, how?
I'll try and finish the paper in the meantime...
