Pro·cras·ti·nate: To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.

I've had about 6 or 7 drafts of different posts waiting for me to write them. I won't. Why?
1. I don't remember where they were going.
2. I'm a procrastinator.
3. The odds of me finishing this post are slim yet the keys are still going.

Something about me has always been a procrastinator. When I was little, my mother called it dilly dallying. I would be getting ready for the school day and she would yell "Stop dilly dallying!" (Its amazing how parents know what your doing when you aren't doing them isn't it?) As I progressed as a human, I continued to dilly dally or as "normal" people state procrastinate. (Shocker: I'm procrastinating on homework as I'm writing this) One day I was procrastinating on a certain social networking website and stumbled upon this quote by David Cain author of Procrastination is not Laziness:  

"It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth.

You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.

But in real life, you can’t avoid doing things. We have to earn a living, do our taxes, have difficult conversations sometimes. Human life requires confronting uncertainty and risk, so pressure mounts. Procrastination gives a person a temporary hit of relief from this pressure of “having to do” things, which is a self-rewarding behavior. So it continues and becomes the normal way to respond to these pressures.

Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them. Their older siblings may have been high achievers, leaving big shoes to fill, or their parents may have had neurotic and inhuman expectations of their own, or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.”

Side note.. I last worked on this post on March 6th, 2013.. I decided it would be best if I just posted it as is.