I’m a master procrastinator.  You provide me something that I don’t want to do and I have to make a choice.  Choice One: do it right away, don’t add it to the to do list to simmer, don’t get the satisfaction of crossing it off the list, get it done and out.  Choice Two (otherwise known as the path always taken): add it to the to do list, move it from to do list to the next to do list as it sits neglected while all other tasks are off the list, wait, do more things that aren’t the thing that needs to be done, get milk, move it to a new to do list and then finally I do the following to stop the ugly cycle:

1. See if the item needs to be done still.  If not.  Cross it off.  You won!!!  Go directly to step 8, collect $200 and hey pick up a Chance card for being so darn smart.
2. Sorry about your luck.  You still need to do it.  Decide how long the task will take.  Write that time that you’re willing to commit next to the to do list line item.
3. Look at your calendar and find that amount of time. Make it an appointment.
4. Establish a reward for directly after the procrastination appointment (zucchini bread anyone – see recipe tomorrow)
5. At the time of appointment close the door, put on the BrainWave app or another focus form of background music/noise, set the egg timer to the task time.
6. Do it.  Head down.  E-mail off.  Twitter off.  iChat, AIM, MSN, Communicator, ICQ, Trilian OFF.  Seriously.  TURN THEM OFF.
7. Complete task.  Celebrate the ringing of the egg timer.  Shake your ass.  Put on a fun song to shake it to while getting your reward.  Give yourself a high five (why don’t people do this anymore, it’s so fun!)
8. Cross the item off your to do list in each instance and enjoy your zucchini bread.

Tomorrow we’re going to talk about Zucchini Bread and how it totally counts as a vegetable and how to give complete strangers high fives as that is going to be MY goal for today.