The Time Cost of Procrastination Quiz

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Instruction

This quiz has 30 questions, and your answer for each item must be in hours (between 0 to 24 hours, with at most 2 decimal places).

For this “time spent” assessment, if your total exceeds 24 hours a day, check if you have the same count response for some numbers, like “‘3 hours’ for 4 different question numbers.” Then check if it’s the same event, activity, inactivity, or set of circumstances for those numbers.

You may consolidate such entries, like if it’s the same “8 hours a day playing online games” reason for 3 entries, this can count as one 8 hour entry, instead of 24 hours total. Flag such repeat offenders. You may have not noticed how much those eat time you could have used better.

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The Quiz Starts Below

On average, how many hours A DAY have you spent?

1. Planning for perfection? *

2. Gathering all possible data before taking any action? *

3. Being consumed by backlogs, rather than eliminating them? *

4. Tolerating, rather than eliminating Energy Drains? *

5. Dealing with Stressors, rather than working to eliminate them? *

6. Tolerating, rather than reducing Delays? *

7. Working against Emotional Friction? *

8. Doing currently irrelevant or unrelated tasks, rather than the thing you're supposed to be doing; Doing the easier rather than the more critical, more useful things; Indiscriminately doing all sorts of actions, without finding out the effects of your actions; Repeatedly doing unrewarding tasks that are ultimately useless? *

9. Dealing with Recurrent Problems? *

10. Making sure things are done perfectly? *

11. Multi- tasking? *

12. Managing time? *

13. Doing things you don't feel aligned with in any way? *

14. Focusing on your own problems? *

15. Being unhappy? *

16. Being in a counterproductive state of mind? *

17. Waiting for a better mood so you can start things or get some things done? *

18. Thinking about your past? *

19. Avoiding what seems difficult, or feels like a lot of work? *

20. Ignoring areas of your life that need work? *

21. Trying every new technique you run into? *

22. Being stuck in the phase of not starting; Refusing to start on a project because it's not what you think you're passionate about; Not doing the little work you could have done to start a project; Staying where you are when you could have moved forward? *

23. Avoiding continuing to work on projects? *

24. Refusing to complete projects? *

25. Not doing something because it didn't feel easy. Not doing something because it was new, or wasn't what you're used to? *

26. Backtracking from where you've already made progress? *

27. Losing control when you could have found a way to keep track of things or stay on top of things; Not noticing problems that tended to happen again and again? *

28. Avoiding mentally demanding but highly valuable work? *

29. Refusing to look beyond your current circumstances? *

30. Avoiding opportunities? *