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Old 06-24-2005, 10:28 PM  
Hardlinks
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Originally Posted by chase
I read once that it's not procrastication for the sake of laziness by any means, it's more procrastination because of perfectionism..you know, the "why start it unless I can finish it RIGHT".

I am guilty of that, like in housework..if I only have twenty minutes, I think, well, you know it will take me forty-five to clean the (fill in the blank here) so I'll just do it later, when I have the time. Then it's the next day and I'm kicking myself because now I have twice the mess to clean.

I am starting to see a parallel in work, and it's really hard to push part that and tell myself, well, yeah, but twenty minutes put in is better then none.

Totally agreed, my father used to say, perfectionism is just procrastination in french....heh no offence he married a french girl so he had internal knowledge
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