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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nI hired cleaners, at the beginning of the year, to come every other week and do the \u201ccleaning\u201d. (I\u2019d like to pause and say that this has been the absolute best gift that I\u2019ve given myself this year<\/em>. I like a clean house and the rest of my family is ambivalent enough to not help out as much as I would like. So rather than overextending myself to do it or bagging at everyone, we make sacrifices so this can happen<\/em>.) This means that every other weekend, we spend a day tidying our house for the cleaners to clean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t \u201cclean\u201d the house; I just clear it of all the daily living crap so they can apply soap and water to all the surfaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I need to be tidying right now; but I\u2019m not highly motivated to do so. So I\u2019m sitting in my bed, polishing off a piece of birthday cake, playing phone games, surfing social media and apparently writing this blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not worried because I know that as the day winds down I will have a shorter window of time to accomplish what I need to and I will kick it into high gear and \u201cgit-r-done!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n And then I wondered if any of you do this too. I like to think of it as using \u201cprocrastination\u201d to my benefit – like it\u2019s a power boost in a video game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m probably just counting on the rush of adrenaline to help me do what I don\u2019t want to do; and I bet there is a much \u201chealthier way (emotionally and mentally) to motivate myself but it is what it is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, do you do this, too? Or is this just me and my unique brand of weirdness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do any of you use \u201cprocrastination\u201d as a tool? I hired cleaners, at the beginning of the year, to come every other week and do the \u201ccleaning\u201d. (I\u2019d like to pause and say that this has been the absolute best gift that I\u2019ve given myself this year. I like a clean house and the rest … Continue reading “Procrastination”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,38,5,16,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap","category-house","category-life","category-me","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}