"The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
The quote from 2 Corinthians 3:6 if taken scholarly would normally be understood as referring to the way scriptures, canons, and statutes are to be read, interpreted and explained.
Literally, this "word," the "word of the week," its letters as well as its spirit does not only kill, does not only claim life, but burry you deep underground. Alas, this has been killing me softly, and its spirit has been diggin' my grave. This has been a habit and i want it out as badly as i want it to be. hahayzz..
The work files up, the opportunities have been pounding doors, but as usual, the very last minute of the day is the sweetest time to move your hands and swiftly grind away the heap.
Dictionary.com defines the "word" as brief as this..pro·cras·ti·na·tion
[proh-kras-tuh-ney-shuhn, pruh‐] (noun) - the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention: She was smart, but her constant procrastination led her to be late with almost every assignment.
Meanwhile, wikipedia defines it this way...
In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of lower priority, or doing something from which one derives enjoyment, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time. In accordance with Freud, the Pleasure principle may be responsible for procrastination; humans do not prefer negative emotions, and handing off a stressful task until a further date is enjoyable. The concept that humans work best under pressure provides additional enjoyment and motivation to postponing a task. Some psychologists cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision. Other psychologists indicate that anxiety is just as likely to get people to start working early as late and the focus should be impulsiveness. That is, anxiety will cause people to delay only if they are impulsive.
Schraw, Wadkins, and Olafson have proposed three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination: it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying. Similarly, Steel (2007) reviews all previous attempts to define procrastination, indicating it is "to voluntarily delay an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay."
Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as social disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments. These feelings combined may promote further procrastination. While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological disorder. Such procrastinators may have difficulty seeking support due to social stigma and the belief that task-aversion is caused by laziness, low willpower or low ambition.
Luckily for me, this has been working for quite some time, with of course some few good results. But i know this is wrong, and bad, and ugly.. and this should be arrested, and killed, and burried, and forgotten...
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