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Doing something, anything, other than the thing you are supposed to be doing. Avoiding the assigned task by completing unrelated tasks.
Steven actively procrastinated by cleaned the entire house to avoid doing his tax returns.
What you must be considering that you are searching for this instead of doing something more productive. Typically due to lack of focus and being easily distracted.
Mom: Dave, are you writing your essay?
Dave: Umm...
Mom: (Examines what Dave is doing on his computer)
Dave! Why are you searching definitions on the Urban Dictionary instead of writing real words for your essay? You are such an unfocused procrastinator:
Something Dan Howell is.
Dan: My therapist said that I'm a procrastinating workaholic. Because once I start working on something, I work so hard that I injure myself by forgetting to breathe and do all this other stuff. I just have a problem getting started. For me, it's like a perfectionism thing. Like, I can't just do something and try my best. I'm like, "If I do this thing, it has to be amazing." It doesn't matter if it's an essay, a YouTube video or tidying my bedroom. I'll be like, "If I do this, I have to DO it, man!" And that's the thing, I put this fear in myself. If I were just someone who was like, "I can just do it." You know, roll with the punches. Go with the flow of life. But for me, it's like a perfectionism thing. It's that I know that when I start it, I am going to work so hard that I'm going to be bleeding. Because I care too much, because I'm a freak. I'm definitely someone that cares.
the act of putting effort into finding other things to do, rather than doing what it is you should acctually be doing.
Mitch: I really didn't want to do my homework, but I couldn't find anything else to do, so I went and got my nipple pierced.
Frank: just to get out of doing your homework? you were actively procrastinating!
When you are dreading and worrying about doing something so much you do it earlier than intended.
"Did you do your homework last night"
"Yeah, I was gonna wait till 8 but I anti-procrastinated and did it at 7"
When you're getting ready to leave the house and someone is taking too long getting ready so you engage in a time consuming activity until the other person is done getting ready. But when the person is done, you're still busy with your activity so they start doing something else as well. And when you finish, they're still busy... and it goes on and on. You're usually habitually late.. to everything.
Katie: "Hey, are you guys on your way yet?"
Amanda: "No, Ryan and I are still stuck in procrastination overlap."
The use built in features of computer programs that allow you to procrastinate. Specifically related to calendar events.
I had a huge project to do today that my outlook calendar pop-up reminded me of. I clicked snooze for 24 hours and e-procrastinated it until tomorrow.