This is just too funny… unfortunately its bizarrely relevant as well… I’d actually tried this out once but my story hadn’t been too different…
Plan To Straighten Out Entire Life During Weeklong Vacation Yields Mixed Results
Some people are pretty organised, unfortunately I’ve not been one of them.
Except, for some strange reason, during the times I’ve been abroad living independently abroad. My excuse… er… theory’s been that living at home with everything so familiar I take too many things for granted 
And also that there are too many dependencies like chores to do and so on. But to be honest, if I take a hard look at the obstacles that I face here, they’re all really just excuses, there’s nothing to stop me really from living the same way here. Hmm… just a case of being in Duryodhana‘s situation…
Procrastination is a universal problem and countless people have tried countless ways to outwit themselves into getting out of the habit. I guess procrastinator has to find his own solution, but this is one of the nice problem definitions I’ve come across:
The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it.- Structured Procrastination by John Perry
Probably the most famous books that I’ve heard of are related to this topic is 7 Habits and getting things done – an American colleague had recommended this to me but I haven’t managed to get a copy of it yet, even when I managed not to procrastinate going to the bookshop to look for it! Oh the irony… heh heh!
Today while getting a new stats plugin, I came across a nice quote which seems to kind of justify the whole thing 😉
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
But sometimes there’s no escape… sooner or later something one should’ve done long ago catches up! 😈 Sometimes we find out the hard way the old adage a stich in time saves nine!
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