The Life of Me

(Did you like the title?) (If you didn't get it: Procrastinators put things off, so we're uniting... later...)

I am a horrible procrastinator. I'm an ENFP personality type, and that's one of the things we're really known for. (If you don't know your Myers-Briggs personality type, I'd highly recommend that you look into it. It's actually really helpful to know a bit about your personality type, and also very helpful to research other types to give you a better understanding of other people).

(Note: Pinterest tends to make ENFPs out to be the Fluffy Unicorns and Rainbows Hugging Everybody Squishy Lovey Plushy People With Brains Made of Cotton Candy. I, for one, am not. Fluffy unicorns (and unicorns in general) are extinct (thanks a lot, Noah), rainbows are nice enough, I don't like hugs from most people, I am a bit squishy, I love some things/people, I'm not that plushy, and my brain is made of intelligence and music lyrics)

So, I procrastinate too much. I wish I didn't, and I tell myself to stop a lot more than I actually do stop. I was super confused as to why I procrastinate so much until a few weeks ago, when I stumbled upon a Tumblr post via Pinterest that initially confused me, but then blew my mind when I thought about it.

The post-er said that they proctrastinate because they're a perfectionist.

This was the part that confused me. I'm a perfectionist, but it rarely overlaps with my procrastinating. Wouldn't a perfectionist want a lot of time to work on whatever it is they're working on, and thus would not procrastinate?

The post-er then continued and said that, because they're such a perfectionist, they're terrified of criticism, and they're always scared that they'll ruin whatever they're working on, and that fear causes them to not want to start/finish a thing, and so they don't until the last minute.

Is your mind blown? Mine is.

It's so true for me, too! I hate being criticised! I always take it so personally, and I hate to think that I haven't done a good job. I'm always terrified to start a project because I'm afraid I'll mess it up or hate it or never finish it. So I put things off! It makes such perfect sense! I love it!

I doubt anyone's as excited about this discovery as I am, because most people are like "MBTI is so pointless. All that stuff is." Whereas I am like "Holy Toledo this is so interesting and I love it to death and I need to knooooooow!!"

Speaking of MBTI and procrastinating, I started making an MBTI book, with a few pages of a notebook dedicated to each MBTI type. I correctly predicted that after 2 types, I'd put the book down and never finish it. It's been like a year since I stopped working. I did INFP and ENFJ. They're interesting types, though. INFPs tend to be artsy people, and ENFJs are really nice (usually).

ENFPs look like cinnamon rolls, but we could actually kill you.

-Sue Donimm