Procrastination - Beat it or Get Beaten!!

Recently I noticed that working out at the gym and running had become a major part of my everyday routine. I was intrigued for 2 reasons. One, I was never big on gym or running as I felt that I got enough exercise from sports (Cricket, Badminton, Basketball etc.) Secondly, I was never motivated enough to take time off and run for 30 minutes or go through the trouble of lifting 40 pounds of weight. It was just not my thing. Given a choice I’d rather prefer to play or sit at home and watch Seinfeld.

So the reason for this change evaded me for many days. The more I didn’t know why, the more I wanted to know. In the process of writing this blog I asked myself a question, which (in hindsight) provided the answer to my gym puzzle. “Why am I writing this blog at this point in time?” Because I had decided to work on a report this weekend but didn’t want to. Suddenly I knew the answer to my gym obsession.

It is a mechanism that I had developed to avoid/ postpone a more important long-pending extremely monotonous thesis work. The idea is to choose the less important (but more interesting) task over the more important task. So if you actually do plan well, you can utilize the time to reduce the number of tasks on your list (even though low priority) to be completed. Then all you need to do is set a deadline for the more important task and finish it. However from my experience it is easier said than done!!