"All procrastination is delay, but not all delay is procrastination.” Timothy Pychyl
Well, here we are eleven days into the new year. I looked at my blog and I was shocked to realize that I had not posted since September. I was embarrassed. I mean here I am talking about my blog, putting links to it in my emails only to realize I had not been taking care of my baby.
It would be all too cliche, and insulting even to say the lack of updates are a perfect example of the disease we are discussing. No in the end it is just my own procrastination. Another example of a great idea started and not finished.
So what made me decide to add a new posting? My blog is rather small at the moment and I am not receiving emails from disappointed readers. I wrote because I told myself I would.
So many times we are discouraged from failing yet again that we stop the project all together. What I have realized is that it does not matter how many times you need to start over. Just say you’re going to do it and then do it. Whatever “it” is, it’s really not that painful once you get started. Stop looking in the rearview mirror. You can’t drive that way and you can’t live your life that way. So it took you longer than it should have, AND? Start where you are. It is not necessary for it to be perfect. It is not necessary to have everything you think you should have to begin. Just do something! Make that phone call, send that email, put those papers in a pile.
So what are you waitiing on? Stop the excues. You don’t have a time management problem. You, I, have a self regulation problem. The fear of failure or even worse the fear of success are powerful opponents but you can defeat them. We know that procrastination will only make us feel worse and end up with greater or more expensive consequences. Get going and give procrastination the boot! and remember, just because you messed up doesn’t mean you can’t get up and start again.