Structured Procrastination

- Both were from articles in WSJ in past month
"Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important." -Read on.... http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

So that explains it -fuckin brilliant...so that's why I'm always making to do lists and never seem to take care of the things at the top of the list. e.g.- I haven't registered my car in Florida (its been 4 months and law says by 2 weeks), and I keep saying today is the day I'll talk to some Indian [dot] halfway across the world at HP customer support to get my laptop fixed.


http://evernote.com/ - "Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere."

-A high tech way to organize and make to do lists / avoid doing things that need to get done.