I think I'm going to write about procrastination, why procrastination? Well because procrastination is my best friend, it's what I know best how to do. If they gave out awards for it, I would get one, with honors.
The Collins Paper Back English Dictionary defines procrastination as a noun for procrastinate which means "to put off (an action) until later; or to "delay".
Yep, that's me, Princess Procrastinator. You see, I have recently got home from this amazing camp and I had all these great ideas of what I was going to do when I got home and what I was going to complete. I was excited, revived, I felt reborn even. But then I had me some 'cool whip'! You see 'cool whip' my friends is procrastinations best ally, it's a smoke screen for the dangers that lurk behind.
Let me explain it a bit more ..... normal for you. 'Cool Whip' is a metaphor for all those things we do, say or think we need to have, do or achieve BEFORE we can start something we need/want to start. Here's an example for you based on my own cool whip.
I really wanted/want to create really cool journal pages that other people will look at and want to learn how to do, ok, so I tell myself well yes that's doable BUT FIRST - cool whip moment - I have to learn all that I can about how to create great pages then, AND ONLY THEN, can I achieve my goal of producing great journal pages. Sooooo, many, many, many e-classes, you-tube videos and wonderful delicious blogs later, I discover that procrastination has moved in, made a complete mess and is relaxing in the lazy boy with its feet up!!!! Procrastination has dangled yummy 'cool whip' treats in front of my eyes and like an obeying hungry mule, I follow, completely forgetting where I was going, what my goal was, and almost always creating NO ART.
I have lost count of how many times I have had procrastination over for a play date, often ending with a sleepover for several nights. I am exhausted from doing.... well, nothing, and I have, as promised by my new friend procrastination, nothing to show for it. All of this 'putting off until later' has made me feel brain-numb, a bit like a zombie except I'm still alive and with a pulse, functioning but only physically, walking through life in a daze, not really knowing what’s going on, not really having any ideas or solutions of my own, just being for the sake of being.
I want off of this diet of "cool whip"; I want to feel alive again. I want to feel that I can create things that have come from my own brain, my own heart, my own soul. I don't want any more bright and pretty dangly "cool whip" (yes I know cool whip is something that you eat and is not bright nor dangly, stay with me here), I want to feed my soul by being original, I want to be able to say NO when procrastination wants to come and play, I want to 'do it anyway' despite/in spite of procrastination.
Here’s an idea, maybe I should trick procrastination and do a change of address postcard to procrastination so that it doesn't visit me anymore. Maybe that’s what I’ll do….
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