Last night, I stayed up past three a.m. to finish that day’s post, which I had put off writing until the last minute. Then, I got up early to frantically clean house because the building manager was due any minute to inspect the plumbing. Now, I’m exhausted and my head hurts.
Are you seeing a connection here? I am paying one price of my procrastination.
I put off cleaning, even though I was warned two days ago that Jim was coming this morning [not to mention that if I routinely kept the place presentable, I wouldn’t have had to lift a finger] because I would rather do ANYTHING — even BLOG — than do a little housework.
Is this a case of pure laziness? Of course. But calling myself names doesn’t solve the problem.
==========
Well, it’s many hours later and I have flaked out again. The headache got worse and I couldn’t finish.
Trying to be honest here while still keeping that one-post-per-day commitment. [I didn’t promise one AWESOME post per day, did I?] I’m very sorry about this, but I’ll continue this thought in my next post, and will write more about the price we pay for our flakiness many times.
Right now, I have a date with a cold, wet washcloth. Gah.
Leave a Comment
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
This is the most honest post about procrastination I've read in a while.
Even if you don't think it's the greatest post in the world, I think the main thing here is that you're sticking with your daily post goal.
Procrastination sucks, but giving in and giving up is much worse.
I'm totally with you on the housework too 🙂
Wow, thanks Andy. I really appreciate your comment because I was a
little bit nervous about being so honest. But without honesty,
especially in this topic, I would lose all credibility. So I took a
leap of faith and clicked Publish. Thanks again for the validation.
I commiserate with the cleaning. I'm constantly apologising to people before they get in my car for the state of hygiene (or lack thereof). It happened again today. If I had any sense of self-respect I'd actually clean it but hey, there's that voice of resistance again!! 🙂 Love the website!
I commiserate with the cleaning. I'm constantly apologising to people before they get in my car for the state of hygiene (or lack thereof). It happened again today. If I had any sense of self-respect I'd actually clean it but hey, there's that voice of resistance again!! 🙂 Love the website!