from Tracey G.

In honor of November being the 11th month, we present: 11 Things At The 11th Hour!

Ever since the days of homework, reports, book reports etc, I’ve always done my best work at the 11th Hour. Sometimes quality suffers a little bit, but 99.9% of the time, it’s just fine. And I can also say the 99.9% of things done well, were done on purpose in the 11th Hour, lol. Now a days though, sadly, sometimes things just don’t have a choice but to get done at the 11th Hour, life seems to make up its own rules as it goes merrily about its way, and that’s just how things end up – down to the wire.

So, here’s my list of 11 things that have, through the years, gotten done at The 11th Hour: (not in any specific order, I’m an equal-opportunity 11th Hour-er!)

Gift Shopping

Housecleaning

Bill Paying

Holiday Baking

Homework

Harry’s Scholastic Book Orders

CY365 Daily Photo

Blog Posts: Writing/Baking

Laundry

Cooking Dinner (or going for take out!)

CY365 Prompts

from Kris B.

In my many years of life and school, I’ve learned a lot about myself.  One of those things is that what looks like procrastination on the outside really is not.  I may execute tasks at the eleventh hour, but most of the time, I have been processing the ideas in my head for a long time.

As Tracey said, life these days has a way of making the schedule.  Things get done when I can do them in the order that they need to get done.  A friend the other day mentioned that she has a Type A personality, therefore she is always ahead of the game.  My response was that I too have a Type A personality, but I juggle so many different hats that it comes across as a Type B- to others.

The bottom line is that if I say that I will do something, I will do it.  If you give me a deadline, I will meet that deadline.  If that deadline is midnight, it may be 11:59pm when I get it done.  In my book, that’s on-time.  I don’t get behind those who say, “If it’s on-time, it’s late.”  That doesn’t even make any sense to me.

Here are those things that I know deliberately get done at the 11th hour:

Wrapping Christmas gifts

Putting clean laundry away

Getting up in the morning

Going to bed at night

Packing for trips

Returning or renewing library books

Giving the dogs a bath

Getting my hair cut

Weaving in the ends of finished knitting projects

Grading papers

Editing blog posts

Others may call me a “procrastinator.|  That’s OK.  How I do things is who I am.  My methods have served me well all of these years so I’m not planning to change them anytime soon.

Have a great weekend!