{"id":1150,"date":"2012-02-17T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:03:39","slug":"12-ways-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"12 ways to&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; procrastinate.&nbsp; I am in another blog challenge and it is to complete the line &#8211; 12 ways to&#8230;&#8230;and I decided on &#8220;to procrastinate&#8221; because I am very good at that and I am surprised that they have only asked for 12 ways \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>1. Go for a coffee to think about what&#8217;s to be done&#8230;<br \/>\n2. Knit another row &#8211; I always think better when relaxed&#8230;.<br \/>\n3. Pick lint&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n4. Check e-mail&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n5. Make to do list&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n6. Call a friend&#8230;.someone who always says &#8220;take time to smell the roses&#8221;&#8230;..<br \/>\n7. Have another coffee to make sure that there is nothing else more important to be done than the task at hand that needs to be done.<br \/>\n8. Make a mental list of all the small jobs that could be done easily, just to see whether they need doing before the &#8220;elephant.&#8221; I know this is number 7 rephrased.<br \/>\n9. Tidy..I always work better when things are tidy&#8230;unless, of course that is what&#8217;s to be done!!!<br \/>\n10. Go on line for suggestions of how to tackle the job or do it better, once you have started.<br \/>\n11. Have another coffee&#8230;<br \/>\n12. 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