Are you the sort of person who, knowing that a deadline approaches, gets whatever it is done in good time. Or like me do you need the very fact that you have little time to spur you on to actually get the thing done? I hardly seem to be able to help myself in all areas of my life to just put things off and leave them for tomorrow, or next week or the next. At work recently I have had more time, my new job is less busy than the old one (though it is picking up) and I have improved. Well I tend to start a project and then complete is just before deadline. Then there are home things; my car needs new brake pads and a service before it goes back and I hopefully get my new car. Today is likely the last day I can ring about this in time for getting everything done in time, and this morning I woke with that realisation. But why am I like that? Why can’t I be the kind of person who gets things done when they first need doing, why can’t I write a plan and stick to it? Why do I have to reprioritise instead of going with the first priorities that I decided on?

On various courses I have done Myers Briggs and other personality test type things and they do point to my need for being a last  minute person but sometimes I find the stress of the last minute greater than the adrenalin rush of the deadline. I mean if I can change my eating habits and lose weight, if I can begin to sort out my finances, then why can’t I make myself tackle this?