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There are many areas in life where you can perfect the art of procrastination. I've actually been thinking about writing this article for weeks, but I've been putting it off. In some ways, there may even be some benefits to creative procrastination.

Leave the dirty dishes in the sink to pile up. When you've run out of coffee mugs, or silver wear, and have absolutely nothing clean left to eat a meal on, you can always resort to using paper cups, plates and plastic utensils. Or better yet, go out to eat. Then you won't have to wash any dishes, and you'll be happily content from your meal. That sink full of dirty dishes, will still be there when you come back. Believe me!

If there are piles of things that you stumble and trip on, this can increase your skills at building better coordination, while you try to avoid the stubbed toe, or trip over the pile of magazines on the floor. If you have pets, such as cats, they'll love the different levels of things they can climb on, around, and under to explore. And if they should cause a teetering pile to start cascading and heading towards the floor, it'll add to the aesthetic value of the items you're seeing. It can also add to your sense of adventure as you're desperately looking for whatever item you need, that you now can't find in the rearranged piles.

Put off paying your bills, until the last possible minute. If you do this on line, and you know that it takes at least 3 days for the bill collector to receive your payment, by submitting it on the date it's due, or even after that date, you're bill collectors will love you for it. The get to add late fees, because the payment didn't reach them by the due date. After awhile they get to increase your interest rate on your charge card. Now you're previous balance may have even increased instead of decreased, after you finally got around to making your monthly payment. Now you owe the bill collectors even more money then you did before. I told you they would love it!

When you're due to meet friends and family, or even when you're getting ready to go to work, allow 5 minutes to get to your destination, even though you actually need 30, in good circumstances. In this way, your friends and family get to experience new and wondrous emotions, such as anger, irritation, annoyance, or even just leaving in a huff because you haven't arrived on time.

A constant late arrival at work, gives you coworkers something to talk about amongst themselves. Their workdays can get pretty boring

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