When I do a little bit every day, I still find myself with the lions head of the task leftover to do the night before.
Sure, it’s saved my ass a few times, I’ll have gotten all the time sensitive tasks done earlier - if I need to buy something before an event I’m sure glad I started early because I had time for the parcel delivery. But I’m still up till 3am the night before finishing the PowerPoint presentation, and I’m rocking up to the venue at 7am not 9am because I never did get around to setting up the furniture as planned because instead I fixated on the catering and spent 6 hours learning how to florrette every fruit known to man - a job I’d only scheduled 40 minutes for.
I’ll do a task that I’d scheduled 2 hours for and knock it out of the park in 15 minutes. So I reward myself by taking the entire rest of the day off from any related tasks. Then I get stuck on a task that is taking much longer - sometimes because it genuinely takes longer than I realised, sometimes because something about it just sends me into a timeless trance.
So that’s what happens if I start early. It’s a lot of mental labour. If I don’t start early, so far nothing bad has happened, and it feels like less work because I condense it into a shorter time.
Yep this is me right now. I’m being screamed at on a project I could have finished long ago but now they are throwing deadlines out and I spend more time coming up with excuses than just actually doing it.
I know how it looks from the outside, i seem incompetent. Sucks because it’s easy but I’m skimming lemmy and seeing what movies are on rather than working.
Drugs will kick in soon though and i can get back to it. Fun.
This frickin comic, it gets me every time. It is a lot like that. I try to reason, be rational, consider options, but I get nothing back. It's like trying to hail the Reliant, all I get is static.
Same here, it hasn't gotten old for me yet! Hahah, I'm sure you get this a lot, but I saw your username and assumed I was looking at a Risa post (or at least a post in the startrek.website instance), hence the Trek reference.
Thx for posting this comic, it's nice to be reminded you're not the only one, ya know?
Yes. Yes I do get that a lot lol I never thought that would end up being a consequence of me branching out into other communities after establishing myself in Risa. You’re not alone though, don’t worry about that!
Oh I totally get it. That’s why I love this comic series so much. Was genuinely one of the first times I could go “oh wow, someone gets it.” I have most of the comics saved to my phone which is why my posting of comics to this community is skewed in their favor. Also I just kinda love them and wanna give the artist more attention.
I would recommend to also include the link to the source (I edited the comment with a link to the original artist’s post). But I’m not a mod, so it’s just a suggestion :).
Ah yea I agree. I’ve been relying on the link that comes with the browser extension but miss it when that doesn’t happen. I appreciate you adding it and I’ll try to be better about it :)
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