Do you want us to tell you our favorite joke about procrastination? We'll tell you later...   (we needed a bad joke to break the ice 💀)  

It took us a lot to write this article. We were going to publish it 2 weeks ago, on World Procrastination Day ... but we missed it.  

And you, who look like you've never broken a plate in your life... are you going to tell us that you've never procrastinated? Ya, ya, ya...

In this world no one escapes: the king procrastinates and the pope procrastinates

Procrastinating is leaving until tomorrow... what you wanted to have done today. 

95% of people do it in a general way, and 20% of adults and 50% of students procrastinate until they have serious #real problems. We suspect that the true figure is higher, but that the rest of the respondents would be procrastinating in sending their answers… .

And this, in the classic narrative that we have been told, is a capital sin of lazy people, thugs and social loosers that we should all flee from because: 

• It costs you peace of mind because we all love the hug of the sofa but no one is passionate about the regrets of not having started work on time. 
• It costs you bad faces at work, because your boss expected something for today. Next time, tell him that you are doing it for his own good . 
• It obviously costs you your time because for every 100 minutes you spend watching videos of pimples and kittens; you lose 27 of work, 29 of leisure and 12 of sleep. 
• It costs you money, because your time is worth money.

Extremisms: from procrastination… to toxic hyper-productivity

Before we continue ranting about procrastination, let's stop for a moment.  

Why do we talk about 'spending' time?; Where does the obsession with productivity and efficient use of constant time come from?  

Well, this comes to us from outside; It's a bit taxing on us. We live in a society addicted to productivity. Up to a toxic level. Even with a pandemic that forced you to stay at home, you were forced to learn languages, to make bread, to redecorate your house, to do, to do, to do...  

They have taught us that we are worth as much... as the things we achieve (and then post on networks): the extra hours you work, the sacrifices you make for your family, the weekend hobbies, the projects outside of work hours,...  

We have learned to present ourselves and describe ourselves by our achievements and, then, if we do 'less'... well, we are 'worth'... less.  

That's why we tend to embrace that hamster wheel of hyperproductivity as “good.” If your self-esteem is only built by doing things all the time and 'not having time'... you probably never have the incentive or desire to be alone with yourself and love yourself for who you are; not because of what you do.  

What if procrastinating, consciously, was the perfect incentive for that busy life syndrome?

Procrastinating, which is a gerund

Procrastinating, in this sense and as long as it is not pathological, opens up a range of positive consequences: 

• It is an emotional mechanism to manage short-term negative moods. 
• It brings you closer to the 'last minute' dopamine rush where certain people function much better. 
• It is a space of creativity in which your mind 'wanders' because it is not yet convinced that you have found the perfect answer/approach. 
• You recover energy. Would you try to get water from a dry well? Well, the same thing is trying to get wild productivity out of your mountain body when you are ready to drag. 
• You gain happiness. Sometimes we spend hours scrolling from bed because, simply, they make us happy (I'm hot...). If we are happier, we are also more productive (and not the other way around).

In the end, this procrastination... not so bad 

You already have too many demands. To be 'more', you don't have to get up at 5 am, meditate, go to the gym every day, work 10 hours to come home and continue working, or run marathons every weekend...  

Wandering should not make us feel bad, but rather make us more indulgent with ourselves. Lazing around at nap time connects you with what really matters: with you, with who you are and with your thoughts  

…well look, not that bad  

That said, you can get back to finishing alphabetizing those creampies before it becomes your next task on your procrastination list.

PS: Ah! We almost forgot the postscript. This is what happens to us for leaving it until the last minute...   

Today's post is sponsored by our Heroes' Recharging Mask , the mask with a battery-recharging effect for those who procrastinate out of necessity. Come on, leverage yourself on the couch as if it were your defensive moat while you get your face ready and Netflix asks you “Are you still there?”  

Here we continue and here we are going to stay, a little while longer.