haha, 1st bk since ~

wow, finally i had dis sense of accomplishment, dat is, to finish reading a book on friday nite. haha, it's been god-noes-when since i read a book. haha, great achievement i wud sae, to me at the very least. tho it's a small book, with easily comprehensible language structures, i felt that it's a small step towards reading more books =D
it's the 'procrastinator's handbook' i'd spoken of in my previous post. it's realli inspirational. and perhaps motivating as well. the author is Rita Emmett, go get it if u tink u're a hopeless procrastinator, lyk me. lols. in there, loads of tips were given to help u recover from this intolerable (most of the time) habit. i'm now officially a recovering procrastinator. haha
btw, let me briefly highlight some of the key notes the author made. Under her own law, she mentioned that 1 actually spent more time procrastinating on doing certain things than working on the task itself. that was freakingly true ! a simple example of myself wasting 20 min whether to go jogging on '1 fine day', which i cud have easily covered the course by at most 25 min. u might sae hey, u saved 5 min, but look, if i had spent that extra 5 min, health and alertness are the benefits.
maybe in ur opinion, the above mentioned was largely insignificant. but tink abt it, procrastinating had realli made us spend so much time. jus when ppl started complaining they're busy, they're exhausted, time's running out or whatever (fill in the blank). they leave everything to the last min, and swear at the amt of work they had accumulated. i was once such person, i mus admit. usually by procrastinating, ppl regret what over things they'd not done in their lifetime. the author spoke abt asking a grp of elderly if they ever regretted on wat they'd accomplished in their lives. they replied with a guilt-free 'no', but they added that they regretted on things they'd not done. fair enuff. ppl usually procrastinate on learning to weave a basket, going on a bungee jump, learning to play an instrument, calling some1 dear in their lives and the list goes on.
i guess it's realli the matter of time management that distinguish a successful human-being from another. ppl often neglect the importance of this, and drag everything till the last min. they argued that they 'work best under pressure', but i mus agree with the author, that it shud be we 'managed to concentrate and complete our job on time under pressure'. no 1 works best under pressure. there're simply too many factors that oppose that phrase. when u frustrate ppl ard u as u vent ur anger on them jus becus they're offering u a cup of coffee when u're trying to draw up the proposal (the deadline is tmr damn it !); or u finished ur report, but it was nv a gd one; u lose slp over the incomplete job. all these dont contribute to the idea of 'working best', instead, it's the absolute opposite.
i'm trying hard to work on this too. perhaps i dun hv to 'master the art of doing it now', but rather, jus practise the way. things shud go much more smoother for me i forsee. oh well, until i practise it, i dun tink i have the right to tell ppl wad to do =D