You start to arrange your book collection in alphabetical order. You think you need to organise the storeroom although it has been a mess for the last 15 months. You feel the urge of trying new combinations of our wardrobe. - Do the red shoes go with the purple dress? - You get hit by a cleaning mania, check emails every 45 seconds and think of food although you have eaten just 15 minutes ago.
Clear signs - It looks like you have a meeting with this edgy client tomorrow and you haven’t even started preparing the presentation…
We have the gift of postponing (unpleasant) things and are unexceptional creative just to find an escape. Suddenly pedantic cleaning becomes more interesting then the tax declaration that is due next week, not to mention the 100 sit ups we planned to do every evening...
Remember that we all wanted to save the world at some point, become admired pop stars, pilots or the queen of England - well, at least we wanted to manage all the housework when it is cleaning time again! But for some reason it never happens, something always intervenes: the telephone, the latest issue of Vanity Fair or just the clouds that seem incredibly interesting while we watch them for hours.
We all know it! Procrastination - as scientists call this phenomenon. "Tomorrow" is the magic word - and incredibly good that tomorrow there is another tomorrow!
In fact it is a pretty clever strategy. You feel happy that you can have the chocolate fudge with cream because tomorrow is actually a better day to start a diet. At the same time the conscience is salved as the diet is already planned.
Apparently professional "procrastinators" like to express themselves in subjunctive: shoulda, woulda, coulda... A clear sign of unconscious fear of making decisions and having an own point of view.
Well, I will check my vocabulary but at least I have a psychological excuse for not having posted any entries lately.
I have enough ideas, but as it always goes - something always intervenes...
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Definitively maybe
Peggy
22:25
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1 comment:
Hey Peg - witzig, ich wollte über genau das gleiche schreiben! ;-)
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