1.8K views Feb 2010
A humorous video defines procrastination through everyday distractions, from making tea and tidying shelves to watching TV and avoiding unfinished work.
0:01 Procrastination. 0:05 Procrastination. Procrastination. Procrastination is avoiding doing something. 0:15 Procrastination is not being able to get started. 0:25 It's reading a book. 0:29 It's descaling a kettle. 0:32 It's color coordinating your shelves. 0:38 It's sharpening your pencil. 0:42 Procrastination is spending 30 minutes looking for the right pen. 0:51 It's spending 10 minutes getting the right pen to work. 1:00 Procrastination is making a cup of tea. 1:04 Procrastination is finding the most difficult way of doing something. 1:12 It's jumping from one idea 1:15 to another, 1:18 to another. It's checking your emails. 1:28 Writing your emails. 1:33 Procrastination is... 1:36 thesaurusizing words in your emails. 1:43 Procrastination is making a cup of tea. 1:48 Procrastination is staring out the window. It's watching the neighbors. 1:54 It's watching television. It's being unable to stop watching television. 2:09 It's smoking a cigarette. 2:12 It's doing the dishes. 2:16 Procrastination is tidying your desk. It's creating a f- a fire escape plan. 2:29 Procrastination is rearranging your furniture. 2:33 It's playing computer games. 2:38 It's playing imaginary computer games with your furniture. 2:45 Procrastination is pairing up your socks. 2:49 It's writing thank you letters. It's not writing thank you letters. 2:52 Procrastination 2:56 is daydreaming. 2:59 Procrastination is petting something. It's watering a plant, it's doodling. 3:05 Procrastination is trying to grow a mustache. It's chasing a fly, it's tapping your pencil. 3:13 It's doing 8 things at once and not getting one done. 3:17 Procrastination is taking a nap. Procrastination is getting drunk. 3:23 It's scratching yourself. It's making a cup of tea. 3:29 It's cutting your finger. It's oiling the bike. It is picking your nose. 3:33 It's waiting for the postman. It's trying to avoid the inevitable. 3:42 Procrastination is writing lists. 3:47 It's not being able to decide what way to do. 3:53 It's overcomplicating things for yourself. 3:59 It's being afraid to finish something. 4:03 It's not knowing when to finish something. 4:10 It's not knowing how to to finish 4:14 something. 
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