Lately I have been procrastinating over my house. I WANT to do what I need to do to fix the things that are falling apart, but it seems so overwhelming that I find it difficult to get started. At my age, even though I take pride in being a home improvement woman, it’s getting harder and harder to do things myself. I need to find and hire people instead. Ugh. I hate that. It’s the same feeling I have about dealing with car salesmen.
I’ve been procrastinating about writing too. It’s been harder to write as often as I should in order to keep my blog updated. I like to write. It makes me feel good and it brings out my more whimsical side. It helps me work out what’s going on in my head. These are all good things, but lately, just like taking on home improvement projects, I have had a hard time getting started. I’d rather spend mindless hours watching mysteries on TV or staring at Facebook and ancestry.com on my ipad, than checking out flooring contractors or writing about looking for flooring contractors for my blog. Clearly this is tied to addictive behavior. I would rather feel good in the moment than do something that feels vaguely unpleasant, whether or not it really is unpleasant. So I stopped procrastinating about writing. In an exercise in irony, I WROTE about what was hanging over me and making me procrastinate about WRITING. It’s not the kind of thing I want to share on my blog, but basically it wasn’t about home improvement projects or writing my blog at all. It was about feeling sad, missing my sister, some insecurities and self-flagellation over how I look at myself - the usual psychological suspects. I looked online for suggestions on how to get out of that do-nothing state when my feelings drive me to escape into mindless activities. I found the following helpful hints:
I don’t have an unlimited amount of time on this planet. I don’t want to waste that time procrastinating.
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