Procrastinating
Posted 09-15-2007 at 04:16 AM by stiney51
I work for a couple companies and therefore have a number of different tasks and styles to deal with. My current project is to design the face of our hockey company's internet retail site.
Not a huge deal, I've done it twice before for other hockey retail sites, but this one is different. We're looking curring edge more content and more information than previous sites.
Each time I start a process like this, it's easy to throw out a bunch of ideas and then fall short of achieving them. This is one time I'm bound and determined to outdo anything I've done before, so it has me cautiously approaching this daunting task. I find myself more and more looking for things to distract me at work, putting off what I need to get underway. I convince myself that everything I'm doing either needs to be done or is a way for me to grow as a designer.
Often it is really the case, but more often it is merely a way to not charge right into things. Next week (since it's Friday night) I bear down and get some serious work done, but for now I just look back at another week gone by without enough work getting done.
If anyone has suggestions to avoid this, let me know because it's never a great habit to get in to.