Procrastination…
I would have written this post earlier if I’d known what I was going to write. But I have thought about what I want to write about all day and I’ve drawn a blank.
None of the ideas I have had have really come together enough to be a blog post. They’ve just been words or incomplete ideas. Nothing I can knit together into coherent thoughts.
But I must write today, and today is almost tomorrow, so I will write. Maybe it will turn out to be my best post yet. Stranger things have happened.
This happens in life too. We know we have to do something, but we have no idea what to do or how to do it. So we worry and we fret and most of all we procrastinate.
And then something happens.
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Sometimes it’s not a very good effort. We crank it out at the last minute, maybe just past the deadline, and breathe a sigh of relief that’s it’s done.
But we are fervently hoping that no one notices it is only a halfhearted effort. Maybe it’s good enough just that it’s done; it doesn’t also have to be good, does it?
Or, as the deadline rapidly approaches, a fire gets lit inside us. Perhaps it is fueled by anger at ourselves for not just getting the job done already. Perhaps we are mortified at the possibility of failure or embarrassment. Or perhaps we suddenly realize that we aren’t going to get out of it so we have to show them what we’re made of.
Of course, most of this could be avoided by making a plan and sticking to it. That’s not always the easiest way to live because plans often get interrupted, postponed, or changed. But still, having plans does help with quite a bit of the temptation to procrastinate, at least for me it does.
And that is where my thoughts end for the night. It’s been a very long, very productive day, and at 11:12 PM my eyes are falling shut. The next time I am tempted to procrastinate perhaps I’ll remember this ho hum blog post. But maybe not, because there have been quite a few other ways for me to learn this lesson and I still wait until the last minute.
Well, at least it’s done. Maybe no one will notice that I could have done better.
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