After first reading about the benefits of procrastination a year or two ago, I made a conscious effort to delay decisions and actions that previously seemed to

After first reading about the benefits of procrastination a year or two ago, I made a conscious effort to delay decisions and actions that previously seemed to need immediate resolution. I found that I rarely encountered a situation that I delayed action on, even when it felt like I needed to act immediately, that ended up being a mistake to delay. Since then, I have noticed countless examples where delaying action benefited me. I have wanted to implement features in my software that I knew would take a long time and much concentration, but wanted, only to stumble upon an open source library or tutorial or new standard in the browser that made it easily. These include jsPlumb, jsdiff, encryption algorithms, and more. There are also other countless times that I have acted too quickly. Writing code to generate images to create rounded borders that are now handled natively via CSS's border-radius. Lots of jQuery functionality, ajax and more. The point is, it really does help to procrastinate. It's not just lip service. I have extrapolated this to really move away from deadlines. All deadlines have either already passed or do not need to be met. I create no deadlines for myself. I leave to the universe more deadlines -- working on other people's schedules or those set by the weather. I have found myself much more at peace. I live a better life now and am a lot happier since I stopped rushing through everything. As I look back on my life, I tried to move deadlines forward, get out of classes, pass milestones quicker and so many times I remember whatever task it was I wanted to hurry through taking longer than had I just gone at the regular pace. Procrastinate. It's good for life.