Take a look at this scene. Wolverine and Jubilee are in a bit of hot water, circa 1991 comics, and Cable's computer gives him the scoop that Wolverine might die.
Notice that since Cable can travel time, he doesn't actually have to deal with the situation any time soon. As long as he eventually handles it, no one will even know the difference. It's a fairly amusing and clever observation by the writer, Kirkman. Clearly Cable isn't a lazy guy, so this isn't a problem.
But when you put Time Travel in the hands of a serious procrastinator, that's really asking for trouble. The thing about the Time Traveler is that even though he is/was/will be an outside observer and sometimes meddler, he is presumably still aging biologically. The shear amount of stuff available to do when he can pop right into any situation in history would surely prevent the procrastinator from getting anything done. Naturally he'll think he can just go back and do his taxes whenever he wants, so he'll keep putting it off. But when faced at the end of biological life with doing the 50 tax returns he never did, it is going to end badly. There will always be new things in the time line that need his traveling. And something won't get done. He won't have the energy, the time, or all the brokerage statements. And the series of events that lead to a life of traveling time could be erased by spending his whole life in jail for tax evasion. The various permutations and paradoxes are impossible to forecast.
Now you know Why... Procrastinators Should Not Be Traveling Time. Now, where did I put that 1099 again? I'll never find it if I left it somewhere in the last century.
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