For my dear mortals,

Quoting from wikipedia:

Procrastination.

The psychological causes of procrastination vary greatly, but generally surround issues of anxiety, low sense of self-worth, and a self-defeating mentality. Procrastinators are also thought to have a higher-than-normal level of conscientiousness, more based on the “dreams and wishes” of perfection or achievement in contrast to a realistic appreciation of their obligations and potential.

Perfectionism.

Traditionally, procrastination has been associated with perfectionism, a tendency to negatively evaluate outcomes and one’s own performance, intense fear and avoidance of evaluation of one’s abilities by others, heightened social self-consciousness and anxiety, recurrent low mood, and workaholism.

Me:

I think, it is affecting me. I need a external factor to push me to complete a project. - Yes, I do complete projects, but mostly not for myself, but for others. It is evident. I have built up 3 unpublished post here, because they are imperfect, and maybe because I care about what other people think. I want things to be perfect before made public. Good policy or bad policy?

Maybe it is a fear of the unknown, the fear of failure. I know so much more than most people, and it is this that diverts me away from the job path that most take. I know with this knowledge, if I put it into good use, I can help so many people.

Wiki: Student syndrome

Student syndrome refers to the phenomenon that many students will begin to fully apply themselves to a task only just before a deadline.

Me:

Wow, thats what I was doing. I do projects on last days and complete them. Haha I only downloaded and installed a IDE after 12 AM and completed the project within 7 hours of non stop work, then handed it in at 10 AM, and I believe I did better than most of the people. For 5 minutes, I forced myself to feel a sense of achievement as I felt I deserved it, then it wore off. Like I said, if it is work for other people, I would complete it.

I have lots of ideas, and I work on them, but many times I just leave it there after doing it halfway and move on to other ideas. I would have probably made some good money off some of these if I went on to launch them. Creativity is distracting me. Somehow, I think, I can use this personality/characteristic in a positive way - I do not know how, yet.

I remember, for a period of time, I had a lot of motivation. I am going on the sin curve thing again.

Possible Solutions

Exile to reduce distractions and get people to work with - People that can take ideas and work on them(and finish). Too bad, I cannot trust people to handle so much. Like I cannot trust most of the web designers to design for me.

Though.. I have once outsourced to designers and programmers. When a design is submitted to me, I still had to edit it to get it up to my standard. Then, I hand it over to the programmer to continue the work. I could do both myself and that would have increased my profits, but it would have been mostly brain dead grunt work. I did the selling too, which was great. This.. is quite good, could have been better, if I didn’t need to edit the design and just do the selling and management.

I have all the marketing tactics, strategies and business stuff. Hmm..I could be a good CEO, just need to outsource. Maybe a good consultant too. After all, it is while doing the labour(design/writing/programming -you know facing the technical problems that you had to solve in order to move on), where I usually stop, and start to get disinterested. One more thing I need - a larger capital.

Thoughts

This post is sort of educational and hopefully interesting - for those interested in these fields - Psychology, business and marketing. I know I am. There are posts picking up search engine traffic, but there is no feedback. So…?

There is a pressing need to stop doing unproductive things. 24 hours a day, much of it wasted. Think - 24 HOURS, the amount of things that can be generated. BRAINSTORM, RESEARCH, PLAN, OUTSOURCE, OUTSOURCE, OUTSOURCE!

To the people who can decipher this: I will return when the problems are solved. Oh, there are many. Love to riddle.