This happened to me

Procrastination Locked Me Out of My Health Insurance

Turns out, there are consequences to putting things off

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I am nothing, if not part-time lazy. An organized procrastinator, I am a list freak who doesn’t get anything crossed out. I make mental and physical lists of things that need doing, only to put them off until I gather the motivation. Or run out of time.

I would love to say that once a task is on the list, and said list is put away, I at least forget about it. Out of sight, out of mind, right? If only. It would be too easy. Instead, I have to torture myself, let myself feel the slow agony of someone who knows the number of things she has to do, knows most of them are quick and easy, and yet still doesn’t do them, weeks after weeks.

This time, procrastination bit me in the ass in the form of being locked out of my health insurance.

I started my To-Do list in January and it has only grown with time. One thing on that list I have been putting off for a very long time: changing my name on my pension plan. This is the first year I registered to start a pension fund as part of my benefit package with my company. Bear in mind my company matches nothing, only offers to set it up for me — which they did, poorly. As in, they registered half…