Procrastination by A.

Wow, Dee, I'm impressed. You sound like you really have things under control!

I do too, but I have to admit that I have these 2 people sitting on my shoulder sometimes (I'm not crazy, I'm referring to the devil and angel analogy ;-)). As soon as I get a project assignment, I plan worktime into my calendar. I add time (if I can) before the submission deadline so that if something happens I'm set. I stick to the client's submission deadlines, I have to say. But how I get there, is sometimes at my own expense. I don't know where this comes from, but right when I have a lot of work, and should be working on assignment x or y, I get this huge fascination for marketing and internet research, namely training for illustrators, portfolio platforms, networking... That's when the "devil" speaks to me I guess ;-) Does anyone feel the same??

I don't feel too bad, as long as I keep my customer's deadlines (which I always have). And when I REALLY don't have time, of course I won't fall prey to this temptation. But it happens every now and then.

I've looked into the book "eat the frog", and it has something, and I try to stick with it. On my list of things to do for the day, I try to pick "the frogs" first. This usually makes me feel very accomplished and good, as opposed to guilty with a bad conscience.

So, this was my confession session. ;-)