Vogue Italia/Mario Sorrenti

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
? Susan Orlean
The very fact that you clicked on this article tells me you fall into one of two categories:
1) You?re committed to figuring out how to get yourself to do the things you want or need to do to live the life you want.
2) This seemed like the perfect distraction from the things you want or need to do to live the life you want.
So whether you consciously realize it or not, you could use a few tricks to help kick procrastination to the curb. Boy, have you come to the right person. I?ve spent most of my adult life wondering where I was the day they taught everyone else how to be a productive member of society in school. While Nike?s famous slogan is ?Just do it,? my life slogan was ?Just do it later.? I used to think this was just an ?Erika? problem. But when I read the following section of Alie Brosh?s graphic novel Hyperbole And A Half I realized there were plenty of me?s out there. She details her non-attempt at returning a video to Blockbuster. (Hey, remember Blockbuster")
Brosh writes, ?Every day, I saw it sitting there on the arm of my couch. And every day, I thought, I should really do something about that? and then I just didn’t. After a week, I started to worry that it wasn’t going to happen but I thought, ?Surely I have more control over my life than this. Surely I wouldn’...