Have you ever had a problem with procrastination? Do you have any helpful suggestions for curing the problem?
In my last two posts I touched on a couple of ways that we postpone doing things: procrastinating pleasure and agreeing to do something at a future date. In this post I’m going to explore why we procrastinate (and offer a seemingly simple solution) and in my next post I’ll examine how I personally am wrestling with my procrastination quandary.
Sing along with Annie and me. (She can carry a tune. I can’t.)
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I’ll do it
Ok, Ok, depending upon how well you enunciate “I’ll”, I may have paraphrased one vowel too many, but help me out here:
What’s the problem with my I’ll do-it-tomorrow plan?
Well… much as we “love ya Tomorrow,” we apparently mind-blip past the fact that Tomorrow is: “Always a day away!” In fact – it’s not just ALWAYS, it’s also ONLY a day away. How is it we think that what we don’t want to do today, what we can’t bring ourselves to do today, will somehow automagically get done tomorrow? Do we really think that the rotation of the earth from dusk to dawn will miraculously change our inclinations to tackle the dreaded task – whatever that task might be???
Why Not Just “Git-R-Done”??
In many ways, procrastinating just prolongs our misery – the things-not-done weigh heavy on our minds and drag down our energy. So why do we procrastinate??? And how do we stop procrastinating?
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