I admit that I sometimes have a tendency to procrastinate. I put thing upon thing upon item on my to-do list – because I can’t help but create work for myself 24/7, as I am an ultra Type A+ personality. However, when I do this, sometimes I even overwhelm myself – a trait that most people who know me say I do to them all the time, so I suppose it’s fair that I endure the same fate. When I’m having a moment, or a mini meltdown, sometimes just stare at the damn endless scroll of things I need to get to in the hopes that the items on it will somehow, miraculously take care of themselves. Then? I get overwhelmed.
Because I realize that there is so much to do and I just don’t know how I am going to get it all done.
So.
Naturally.
I don’t do a damn thing.
I just stare at the list.
You know, because THAT’S productive (note sarcasm).
Let’s take today and my laundry, for example. This laundry has been clean for round about three days now. I know that I need to put it away, but I just haven’t done it. t has found a home in this chair.
Eventually, it will move to the couch as I tell myself I will fold it whilst watching the latest in my five a day guilty pleasure mini episode-thon of “How I Met Your Mother”.
Then, some of it will get folded and will move to this chair.
After celebrating this little win, a day or two later, the self-same laundry will find it’s way to this bed – that I haven’t made because I was too busy feeling overwhelmed by all of the other shit that I have to do.
Eventually, at some point, it will find it’s way into a drawer or onto a hangar. When I get around to putting it there.
But it’s still a mess.
Which got me to thinking:
When it comes to life’s little messes, when it comes to all of the things you know you have to do or deal with, are you dealing with them in a timely manner or are you just moving your mess?
Thankfully, it is in these moments where we might (if we are lucky) have a little clarity. As we sit on our butts and stare at our to do list, we might just find ourselves texting a friend and discussing how unmotivated we are, and how we are overwhelmed with the phone ringing off the hook or the bazillion text messages or the hundreds of inbox messages that we haven’t gotten to yet today because….well….there is just too much of it for one person to handle.
And, our friend (if they are really our friend that is) will give us some good advice; advice that will motivate us to get off our butt, get our shit together, put things away, hang up the laundry and just do exactly what we need to do for that day. Because that’s how we eat an elephant…one bite at a time.
Honestly, I think we all have days like today.
And it’s on those days that we get by with a little help from our friends.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some laundry to fold.
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