Isn't it funny that as soon as you decide you really have to do something, you will start doing anything else to procrastinate? My friends who are at uni say it all the time, they go on facebook, watch tv online, even clean their room/flat/house in order to get out of writing an essay or reading a book. Its a well known fact that the only time a student flat is clean is when essays are due in or it is revision time. Procrastination, what a wonderful word.
Well, yesterday I decided I needed to really make a start on my new project, and that I was going to spend all of today planning it out and hopefully make a start this evening. So far, since getting up, I have tidied the hallway, cleared out a lot of clutter, tidied up the living room, loaded and put the dishwasher on, cleaned the kitchen, emptied and re-loaded the dishwasher, pruned and rearranged the flowers on my dining room table, taking out any that were looking a bit dead, visited many time-wasting websites and now written a blog post. My new project has had about 2 hours spent on the planning. Hardly the full day I was devoting to it. Sigh, why why why, when I actually do want to have a go at it, do I procrastinate so?
I'm not actually going to explain my new project too much, just in case it totally bombs and I cant bring myself to do it. All you need to know is that it requires my creativity, my brain and my iTunes to be on constant shuffle.
I have just returned from eating my dinner, taking the dog for a walk and watching the end of Top Gear (Rupert Grint as the star in the a reasonably priced car? Helllooooooooo!) and have now returned to the bloggy blog. So, where was I?
Oh yes, my project. Well, I am very excited about it but I do seem to be procrastinating a lot. So maybe I need to concentrate my efforts onto something else for a while, it would appear I'm not quite ready for this.
I dont know what though. Im so terribly indecisive. I rarely make a decision and stick to it. Especially if we go to a restaurant, I will pick something, change my mind and order something different and then wish I had ordered the first thing. So now, I tend to pick, change my mind and then order the first thing. Seems to combat it relatively well. Shame that I cant just do that with life!
Keeping this a short post, hopefully it wont be so long before the next one. I'm going to try and post at least once a fortnight, no promises now I have "started" my new project though!
