I am prone to procrastination in the worst way. I’m very aware that this it not an exclusive
club membership but a malaise I share with millions, if not billions – but it’s
annoying!
One of my New Year’s resolutions (for the last 40 years) has
been to shape up and stop dicking around and GET DOWN TO IT. I’ve also read self-help books, articles,
guaranteed fixes (sad I know) on the subject – I mean, if that act alone isn’t
the height of procrastination, what is?
New Year, new plan – I’m going to embrace my tardiness and
rather than seek the ever elusive solution, I’m going to self analyse, self
medicate and self propel my thoughts and worries – onto paper! Excellent solution – I write to work out why
I dither and don’t write. Result, I
write – which is really the whole point!
Just getting started daily and marking a blank page with
text is the killer. Perhaps if I write
as many rude words as I can to mucky up the clean sheet, I’ll get bored or
grossed out and be moved to more classic prose.
So if I set up a fail safe solution / enticement? Say ……
- No writing – no tea! Won’t work, I’ll just drink coffee!
- No writing – no
water! Won’t work, I’ll just drink
wine – we all know where that’s heading!
- No writing – no TV! Good
thing Sky has a record facility; just means I won’t ever sleep for
watching catch up TV!
See, it doesn’t work – I’m a master procrastinator and Boer maak altyd ‘n plan etc.
Idea - I’ll write about why I procrastinate, why I can’t /
won’t write and even perhaps crack fiction on the subject.
Failsafe plan! Watch this space. He, who hesitates, is lost.
Over and out
NB
