by Rick Baker
On Oct 22, 2015
It seems to me we ought to re-define procrastination. While dictionaries generally define it as delaying or putting off doing something, in day-to-day conversation procrastination has a bad reputation.
Most people think procrastination is a bad thing...so they admonish themselves and others who do it [actually, at a more granular level, I mean 'don't do it'].
Anyhow, because it has evolved with such a negative image I think it is time to re-define procrastination as follows:
If you put things off and feel good about it - I mean, if you feel only good and never bad about it - that's procrastination.
If you put things off and feel bad about it - I mean, if you feel anxiety or worry or some other negative feeling - that's concrastination.
Then, putting things off and feeling neither good nor bad becomes crastination...[which, I acknowledge, requires some care in pronunciation...and perhaps spell-checking too?].
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Regardless...
There's no question - procrastination has its pros and cons.
In fact, I continue to see value in procrastinating for success.