I am a procrastination expert. How about you? For me, it can get pretty bad, especially when my anxiety kicks into full gear and that ONE thing I need to do transforms into this grueling grizzly bear of a burden. I sometimes shut down. I can’t deal.
It can cause me to do just about anything else BUT that one thing I simply must do. It can get pretty pathetic- almost laughable. I’ll do just about anything to keep me from doing that one thing- especially when it’s hard and takes work. It may be a writing assignment. It may be an uncomfortable phone call. It could be a difficult conversation. You get it. The hard stuff.
So, as I spent the last month in FULL procrastination mode, I did quite a few other things. It proved to be good blog fodder, which resulted in a little diddy I wrote on Her View From Home. PLEASE tell me you relate?
Or this can get a bit awkward.
Yes? Okay. Whew!
So without further ado…
When you have something really, REALLY important that needs to get done, here are one hundred things you can do instead:
- Take a nap.
- Clean out your kids’ rooms.
- Paint any room in the house.
- Sweep and mop the floors.
- Watch your friend’s kids.
- Go for a walk.
- Clean out your pantry.
- Wipe down your floor boards.
- Go through all 748 emails.
- Scroll through Facebook.
- Find your old High School pal on Facebook.
- Stalk an old boyfriend on Facebook.
- Pace the house, looking for something that needs done.
- Vacuum.
- Cruise Pinterest for new decor ideas.
- Rearrange your furniture.
- Call anyone.
- Answer the phone when it rings.
- Do four loads of laundry.
- Play with your kids.
- Go to the gym.
- Write a to do list, and STAR, UNDERLINE, and CIRCLE that one thing you must do.
Now go read the rest of this interesting and perhaps helpful list over at HER VIEW FROM HOME and after you giggle and nod, share it with your friends. And add a few of your own ideas from your wealth of experience! (I think I could have easily written 100 more. Right? And to be honest, I only actually did about 98 of the things on my list.)
Omg, I can totally relate and this truly made me smile in recognition knowing it is just me, Chris!! 🙂
101. Click through to Her View from Home. 🙂
Well honestly…….. the clean out pantry one, is something I would totally PROCRASTINATE to do !! Thank God for choices.
I totally relate – I do so many of these to avoid that one task. If I just DID it…well, you know.
This made me laugh! I have actually done #78 – tested all the markers in our house. Then I told myself that I’d done enough important things for one day, and did #1 – take a nap.
I can relate to this Chris. It’s horrible. I always say to myself, I get the cleaning done and then I’ll start this big project. But after the cleaning comes the washing, and the photos to sort. And then I need to cook, and tidy my boy’s room and select the clothes I need to give away. And after that there is a phone call to make and I have a couple of pages to read till I finish my book.
What was my first plan? I get too tired to think about it. It’s already time for bed!
You made me laugh. We are all the same!
hahah! #12! That’s the one! Just kidding. I have absolutely, like Dana, done #78. Not ashamed!
Naps are my personal favorite, though.
haha! this is great Christine. I’ve been in procrastinate mode but I believe it might be from overwhelm somehow. I think procrastination kicked in when I got off-track and decided to do the easier things to feel better, and then took on a lot of easier things to avoid that hard thing, which didn’t lead to feeling better at all! I think there might be a blog post subject for me here. 🙂 Thanks for your words and wisdom!
Haha this is so great! I’m guilty of doing some, if not ALL of these! I think the only time the house gets deep cleaned is when I’m procrastinating something else. LOL