Wrike-Up Wednesday: Procrastination Confessions⏳🙈

Hey Everyone!

We’re back with another ‘Wrike-Up Wednesday’ 🥳

This week, we're embracing honesty and humor with Procrastination Confessions. Let's share those moments when procrastination took the wheel! 😅

What to Do:

Recall a funny or relatable procrastination moment. Share your confession in the comments below, and remember to keep it light and humorous!

Engage with others by reacting to their confessions or sharing your thoughts and tips. Let’s lighten the mood with our shared procrastination tales and find camaraderie in the fact that we’ve all been there. We can’t wait to hear your stories! 😂🗨️

I will go ahead and share my story - I once convinced myself that I couldn't possibly start working at my full potential until I found my favorite caffeinated energy drink! I spent 30 minutes driving to three different stores because 'only THAT specific flavor would unlock my productivity' 😜

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Fabio Bartolini

“I spent 45 minutes looking for the perfect playlist to get in the zone... ended up listening to random YouTube videos instead and got nothing done. 😂

#ProcrastinationAtItsBest”

Florian Gascho

I wanted to quickly discuss something with a colleague before entering a 3h side quest journey and in the end got nothing done😅

Mike Fank

This is embarrassing - I was planning out a project but refused to start until I had the right color of dry erase marker. It took me well over an hour before I was convinced to give up looking and just use the red marker I had.

Is that procrastination or obstinacy?

Eric Fiero

Couldn't start work until I had a dinner I wanted but couldn't have while wife is around (there are foods she doesn't like so I rarely have them when she is home) but then spent 30+ minutes lookin at multiple restaurants with decision paralysis unable to make a choice and ended up just going to one of our usual places. All just to avoid grading papers

Florian Kislich

I sometimes use music to help me focus on complicated tasks, but if it's to complex, the music itself can get the most attention...

Gabriel Stangl-Riehle

I decided that it would be best to figure out which baseball cap looked best for my day even though I was working from home. Took an hour before I could actually start my day.

Brooke Langley

Waiting on someone to reply to me in Wrike when I'm fully engaged in a project knowing darn well I may not get a answer on that day even.. Having that Song in my head, Get in the ZONE autozone.. LOL Is that really Procrastination when I'm trying to be productive!

John Egleston

I actually keep a short list of side efforts that need some attention from my perspective but that little to no one else will care about. So when I need a diversion to give a formal task time to gel, I pick up one of those for a few minutes.

Ali Moses

Last week I procrastinated starting a load of laundry by... cleaning the rest of the house? Sometimes brains make no sense.

Anna Giacobbe

I was going to log in a little earlier this morning to get organized before some back-to-back calls, but decided it would be the best time to clean my kitchen, from the backsplash and right down to the oven knobs! 😅🧽

Hitesh Karkal

I spent 1 hour trying to fix a formula finally to realize that someone deleted the reference sheet on server

Andrei Shkvarok

I can spend hours trying to pick right icons for almost every word in my ppt presentations

Eva Jouaux

Does it count when I say I go here instead of working on Wrike tasks?

Lindsey Fricke

I delayed doing laundry by watching YouTube tutorials on how to fold fitted sheets. Now I’m a folding pro, but still out of clean socks. 🤣

David Simmington

Back in the old days before Spotify when you would download your own music song by song, I once refused to get started on a project until I had a new album released fully loaded and transferred to my iPod. Oops.

Sherrie Besecker

I think I can say - that sometimes when I get overwhelmed with all the stuff I have to do - and instead of getting focused - I end up scrolling wikipedia and reading totally random historical facts!

Claire Findlay

Once dropped a small container, a little larger than a quarter, down the side of my couch. I meant to pick it up but forgot. About a month later, I dropped 2 blueberries down the same spot. Went to pick them up before they stained my carpet and found that they had landed inside the small container from before.

Kirsten Gross

Before I start on a new large project I have to hype myself up. Whether it's with the right music and/or the right inspiration. Then I tend to find myself distracted and will spend time instead organizing my files or realizing my desk needs dusting or just about any other thing than getting started.

Theresa Ryals

A search for something to wear to a special event, ended with me cleaning out my entire closet. Still have no idea what I am wearing to my party.

Cynthia Sperry

I'm a procrastination cleaner! My college roommate was the same way - during finals season our apartment was *spotless* but our final exams and term papers weren't!

Jessica Kvanvig

I'm with @Eva Jouaux, I come here when I procastinate. I also snooze my Wrike notifications for three hours if I don't want to address the issue.

Kendra Ciszczon

I will fall into the vicious cycle of realizing I have not reached out to a friend for a while, feel guilty for how long it has been, and then not reach out since I don't want to deal with the guilt. Thus, causing the time gap to get larger...Only to not care how long it has been when a friend reaches out to me. I just get happy. I need to get myself to realize the guilt is only on my side and I should just reach out to them when they are on my mind!

Kendra Ciszczon

@Cynthia Sperry - Can you come over to my house the next time you want to procrastinate?

Briana Schepper

Sometimes when I'm not feeling in the right headspace or have hit a wall to work on tasks, I give myself the ol' reboot by taking a nap. 😅

Steve Mruskovic

I often vet projects for the creative team by reviewing the brief to ensure the info is good enough to kick off. If there are links to inspiration on social media I click on them...then scrolllllllllll for far too long!

Steve Mruskovic

@Kendra Ciszczon I'm very guilty of that. It even happens with my siblings!

Daisy Hibbard

I tend to do my best work when I'm crunched for time, so I procrastinate a lot on purpose. 🙃 One time I did a 30 minute all-company presentation that got rave reviews, and no one knew I used Wrike's generative AI to create the outline and all I did was just tweak it in about 45 minutes the afternoon before.

Brian Bulthuis

Every tax season, I procrastinate uploading the necessary documents to my accounts' secure web portal by playing an old action-type video game on my home computer. I tell myself I will only play for a minute or two, but hours later, I'm still at it with nary a W2 or bank statement scanned, and my wife asking from downstairs how it's going .

Kevin Thalacker

Take my dog for a walk instead of reviewing projects.

Jeffrey Bond

My wife bought me a great shirt that had a funny definition of procrastination NSFW, I haven't worn it yet.