Avoiding Your Problems

There's always something that we don't want to do.  And we are determined to put it off until the last possible minute...be it an essay for class or changing the baby's diaper, we wait until it absolutely cannot be put-off any longer to buck-up and get it done.
Why?
When you push things to the back of your mind, they slowly eat at you until they get taken care of.  You have math homework, and you're invited to go out with some friends.  So you go out.  But while out all you are going to be able to think about is the sixteen linear equations sitting on your desk waiting for you when you get back to the house... and your not even able to enjoy having a good time.
I've tried, this being my first year of college, to become a little better at doing things ahead of time.  My Professor Reimringer told us the story of his old college professor's "back burner" theory on my second day of his comp. class, and I feel a version of it applies nicely here.

Picture a Stove, with a pot sitting on the back right burner.
That pot is your problem.
Now turn the stove on.  Those hot, blue flames licking the bottom of the pot is the heat that gets worse and worse as your problem sits there, burning in the back of your mind.
It will just get hotter and hotter, more dangerous the longer it is ignored.
Now add water.
This is you finally aknowledging the issue, taking it into consideration.
The water sits and bubbles, boiling in the back of your brain.
Now add noodles, or some other simple ingredient.
This is you coming -up with the easiest possible way out of your problem.
You soon realize however it won't be that easy to solve.
So you throw some meat in there, some herbs and spices.
This is you taking the time to find a solution that will work, giving a problem all the ingredients needed to be solved properly in time.  Once you're finished, you can enjoy the freedom that comes with the piece-of-mind, knowing you did things correctly and as they should be done, creating the perfect recipe-solution.

Your going to be hit with a lot of problems in time, and putting them off only makes things worse.  So don't avoid them, be careful and take your time in doing things right, and you'll be much more satisfied with your ending result.
I tried applying this theory towards homework and it's been working wonders... who knew that the solution to getting things done was as simple as... well, doing them?
Smart teachers.