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Apr 11, 2022
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Today I restarted milk testing the goats for the year. The rules say that all my does must have their first test within 60 days of kidding. Because at my core, I am still the same person I was in college who wrote all my papers at 2 am the night before they were due, today marks day 59. I am nothing if not a consistently 11th-hour performer.

I've tried a lot of different ways to compensate for or short-circuit my procrastinator tendencies, but alas, nothing has seemed to do the trick. I've read self-help books about habit formation, "hacking" yourself, and correcting the self-talk that drives less-desirable behaviors. Yet, here I am, doing the limbo under the wire. Again.

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