Stop putting things off…

Once you start procrastinating pleasure, it can become a self-perpetuating process if you fixate on some imagined nirvana. The longer you wait to open that prize bottle of wine, the more special the occasion has to be.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/science/29tier.html?_r=1

They reference the bit in Sideways that I’ve always liked too…

I’ve always liked the bit in Sideways 20:14
Where they’re discussing one of his ‘best’ wines in his collection 20:14
and he says that he’s waiting for a special occasion to open it 20:14

and she says to him – the time you open it is the special occasion 20:15

I used to be awful for this, getting better. Slowly…

(Adding seeing things in Manchester that I haven’t yet to my growing list of things i’d like to do in the New Year.)

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December 30, 2009

Posted in general, thoughts.