Procrastination

A very lovely lady by the name of Hema, once gave me a book. I am tempting fate here by say this, as I probably never returned it. If so Hema, I am very sorry. You see I am never that good at doing anything I should. I will happily fill my time with mundane little tasks that I get a mild amount of enjoyment from doing, therefore filling my time with things that really don't need my attention. The outcome of this is that I then have little or no time for the things that matter.

Eat That Frog is a book about procrastination. An old saying is that "If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, then you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that is is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!" Your 'frog' is the one thing you are most likely to keep putting off if you don't do something about it now! It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life if you do it now!

So why do we put these things off? It has been the bane of my life for as long as I can remember and only now at almost 40 I am starting to finally get hold of this situation and do something about it. My (almost) 15 year old daughter knows about procrastination too well. I didn't even know the word at her age. Hopefully she will learn to eat her frogs soon.

I am currenlty writing in this blog rather than dealing with something I know I need to do, as this is more enjoyable. But hey, it is my lunch break. Not really worthy of a page in the magazine, but perhaps just a by-line somewhere near the back.