This week's Guilt Trip tries to get procrastinators to do their work ahead of time.
Full disclosure: there was some procrastinating in the writing of this post.
This is an intervention, and it's for all the procrastinators out there—you know who you are.
Here is my feeble attempt to try to encourage you to study for your exams before the night leading up to them; to start your 10-page paper at least three days prior to the due date; to pay your late fees at the library instead of getting kicked out of the school.
I am one of you, so I know how it is. In the moment of procrastinatorial bliss, these things seem the opposite of urgent. Memories of all the times when you survived reading week after going without sleep for three days so you could write 50 pages come back to you. You smile to yourself, thinking, "At least it will never be that bad again."
I've got news for you that you probably already know: It can always be that bad again if you let it be.
