my name is lucy and I'm a procrastinator

I read this post at academic secret last night and, since almost every one of the traits of a chronic procrastinator could accurately describe me, I followed the link to Procrastinators Anonymous. According to that site, procrastination is another manifestation of an addictive personality, and isn't something that can be changed by learning time management skills.
I've been acting as if I'll become more motivated at some point. I think it definitely was harder than usual to get anything done for a lot of the last year, but after reading some of their stuff, it really hit home that it's not going to get any easier and I have to stop letting myself just coast along doing nothing.
That realisation didn't really have much of an effect this morning, although I did get to lab by 11am, which is pretty early by my recent standards. I wasted the rest of the morning doing nothing, but I did look up some of the motivational tools I'd found earlier and never used. I figured I'd start by just tracking how I usually fill in my time in the lab, since I'm not usually working. I used this cool toy from David Sheah (this is my favourite thing of his, but you have to print it out).
Here's what my day looked like:


The sad thing is, I'm actually very impressed with how much work I did. Two whole hours! * It actually helped to be filling in the bubbles because I had to keep working for the whole 15 minute increment for it to count.


*Except I should admit that the reading wasn't exactly real reading. I was just scanning lists of recent articles for anything that looked vaguely interesting and printing them. We'll see if I actually read anything I printed.