Heads; Watch Football ... Tails; AR Time. Call it in the air.

Every weekend we have the wonderful option of watching NFL football or maybe your more into NCAA football, being a fan of either one the weekend can be a glorious time. Now, you may not be a football fan but we all know one, so you can relate a little to this. So me being a football fan, (being from Nebraska you can guess what I am a fan of) I was a little tossed between AR and these wonderful little things called television. I had all intension of watching all my favorite games on Saturday and Sunday (oh and don't forget Monday ... you can almost hear that wonderful background music) when suddenly I was drawn to the computer. For what? Your a member of this group so you already know what I am going to say. Yes, activerain! Even writing this it sounds a little silly but I just couldn't help it. I had this overwhelming erg to check the blogs every couple of minutes .. which honestly seemed like hours.

"My name is Jared. I am addicted to ActiveRain.com." The statement echos in my head!

At one point I was sitting at the computer and I busted out laughing. Only to have a friend look at me with disgust. See, the Washington Redskins game was on and we (the Skins ... I picked them to win) were down and just threw an interception. He looked at me like "Dude, what is your problem." I quickly explained. Than all I could see was this look on his face ... "You are a Geek!" I continued on to read my many blogs that I read that day not thinking much of it. A few hours later most of the games were ending or over.

This began my thought process. I began to think about how I had procrastinated the entire day away. Whether it was to read blogs or just to browse the internet, I was pulled away from the one main goal I had for the day, to watch football. I am not going to sit here and say that I have never done anything like this before because I have. I am terrible at it, I will pick some of the worst things to procrastinate about. It is almost like eating Ice cream before dinner when your a child, you just have to do it.

Why?

What makes us as a society want to push things off and "do today, what we can do tomorrow". I don't have an answer for that and probably never will. In my case it was an equal of two evils. I did get what I wanted to do done or at least partially done and I accomplished some very "active" reading.

I can almost guarantee that next time I won't be so lucky. I will end up doing something that has no value while pushing a valuable thing to the side! Don't we just love that human nature.

So how do we deal with the fast pace life that most of us live today. One minute we are working on a very important project only to turn around and find ourselves chit chatting with our buddies. Where is this happy median? Is this happy median really something that exists or is it that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Me personally, I am probably never going to find it, or maybe I will once it no longer matters anymore and I get to spend the whole day golfing. Until my days of golfing arrive I will just fight the inner battle of doing what I should verse doing what I want.

For a great blog regarding procrastination, read Procrastination and What You Can Do About It! posted by Nestor and Katerina Gasset, it is well worth it!