It’s the absolute worst, but I do it all the time—procrastinate. Usually over things that will not even take that long to do. I’ll find myself doing dreaded chores like washing the dishes or putting away laundry or even paying bills to avoid the one thing that I should be doing. Then when I finally manage to do it, it never fails that I think to myself, “Why on earth did I wait so long to do this? That took like two seconds?!”

I think for me, I build up this story in my mind that whatever the task may that I’m putting off, say like doing my daily 20 minutes of writing, is going to be super hard and will just take up way too much time. So, I start this point counterpoint conversation with myself that can drag on for what seems to be a lifetime. Here’s just a little sample of tonight’s back and forth over completing my 20 minutes of writing for today:

It’s only 20 minutes which is not that much time at all. Well, I want to let my brain rest of a bit after working all day, I’ll get to it in a bit.

Three hours of “resting” later.

What am I going to write about today? I don’t really have anything to say…maybe I’ll just write a bunch of gibberish and not actually post anything today. I didn’t actually commit to posting on my blog every day. Just writing 20 minutes a day. Well, that’s nonsense, I can always figure out something to write about, it may not be the most of exciting of topics, but I can figure something out. Always. And if I’m going to be writing, I might as well post it. Well, I’ll just watch one more show, and then I’ll write.

And thus the back and forth conversation continues in my head while doing anything but the task that needs to be completed until I finally say enough and get the bloody task done. Funny enough, today’s topic did finally come to me as I was doing the last bit of procrastination in avoiding today’s 20 minutes writing session. Just never know when inspiration while strike.

Oh, maybe I should think about making a topics list to help with the argument of not having anything to write about. But that’s kind of like a task that I’m sure I will more than likely spend many days procrastinating in getting done….

And just like that 20 minutes has past, and I have another post to share. 🙂