Stage 1: Pre-Procrastination
The worst happens: Your boss gives you that one task you hate. And an EOD deadline.
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Your immediate reaction is complete disbelief.
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Then frustration.
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But since you're at the office, you keep a cool face on.
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Stage 2: Denial
You try to get the task assigned to someone else.
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But no one budges.
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So you try to start the task—but get nowhere fast.
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So this leaves you with one option: Put off this task as long as possible.
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Stage 3: "Productive" Procrastination
First, you procrastinate by doing other assigned work.
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Then, you clean out your work email inbox.
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And your personal email inbox.
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And your junk email inbox.
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Then, you just start typing random stuff to looking busy.
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Stage 4: Social Media Procrastination
You open up Facebook to stalk people from high school.
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My goodness, their lives look cooler than yours.
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Of course, you're doing all of this while trying to avoid your boss.
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Soon, you start tweeting like a crazy person.
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You have to keep your enthralled followers up-to-date, right?
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Stage 5: Office Procrastination
You start to feel bored, so you clean your office space.
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Before you know it, you find yourself in the kitchen snacking on anything you can get your hands on.
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Stage 6: Procrastinating Procrastination
Uh oh, you're running out of things to do.
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Yeah, procrastinating is getting boring.
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Stage 7: Realization of Procrastination
Suddenly you look at the clock.
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Only 30 minutes to get this task done?!
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You race through it, never looking up.
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And you finish with two minutes to spare.
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Stage 8: Post-Procrastination
Huh, that wasn't so bad after all.
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Until your boss asks you to do that task again tomorrow.
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How about...
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Updated 6/19/2020