1. An advanced form of procrastination wherein a specific task is avoided to complete another equally important task.
2. Avoiding something important by doing something equally important, but where time isn't necessarily a factor.
2. Avoiding something important by doing something equally important, but where time isn't necessarily a factor.
Some examples of 'Executive Procrastination' are:
Avoiding writing an essay by sorting out rent.
Avoiding going to the dentist by going to the gym.
Avoiding writing an essay by sorting out rent.
Avoiding going to the dentist by going to the gym.
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Get the Executive Procrastination mug.Performing arguably "useful" searches in a store or on the internet when in fact you're just wasting time and goofing off.
Instead of scouring the bookstore or internet for assistance with his calculus homework, Steve spent untold hours engaged in relevant procrastination researching netbook computers "for his mom".
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Get the relevant procrastination mug.When one finishs a project long before the due date and then forgetting about the project completely.
Reverse procrastination can lead to lack of editing, forgetting the due date, or losing the project completly.
Reverse procrastination can lead to lack of editing, forgetting the due date, or losing the project completly.
I completed a project two months before the due date, but because of reverse procrastination, I forgot where I put it.
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Get the Reverse Procrastination mug.Work Procrastinating is the avoidance of doing a task at work that needs to be accomplished. It could be further stated as a habitual or intentional delay of starting or finishing a task despite its negative consequences.
Ugh, work is so tedious today! I should be work procrastinating for the rest of the day, even if I don't make the deadline.
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Get the Swanky procrastinators mug.1. I should have written my stats paper, instead I went for coffee with my procrastimates.
2. She's not really my friend, she's just a procrastimate for when I don't want to mark essays.
2. She's not really my friend, she's just a procrastimate for when I don't want to mark essays.
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Get the procrastimate mug.I procrastinated last night before bed, causing me to stay up later than intended. I overslept and decided to procrastinate before work. My life feels chaotic because I am always procrastinating. Some may suggest that I need an intervention, but I don't necessarily want one. Fear of failure may lead someone to procrastinate.
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