Sunday, December 26

I'll get to it

...one of these days, at any minute now, just as soon as I...

Yes, procrastination is a drag on productivity. But might it be more than that?
After some days I got around to reading this New Yorker piece on the subject (the irony is certainly not lost on me), based again on a book

Why do we put things off?
Is it just because we don't want to do them? Or because it gives a feeling of power to control and postpone?
Is it bad to keep things nagging at you, or good to enjoy your selected option all the more since it is "forbidden time"?
Let me get back to you on that... Tomorrow, or maybe next week - by New Year at the latest.

- ...and the sun Is sorely missed, as it has just turned around from the darkest and coldest nights of the year...