Here's one word I would love to hate: PROCRASTINATE.
But somehow, this word finds it's way into my life every single day. It's almost like a ghost, haunting me like crazy, filling even my days with thoughts that make me delay working on what I should be working on.
I realized I can be really creative when I'm not in the mood to work, I can think of and feel so many reasons not to. Say for example... today. Monday is really my 'rest day'. After a grueling week that passed, I had made it part of my habit to devote some 'me' and family time during Mondays. Today, I think I was able to stick to that habit. I was able to check and update the layout of my existing blog, and hey, I was able to come up with this new blog. So cheers for me!
Well no. Not really.
I made Monday an extension of my weekend, allowing myself a three-day escape from my work commitments. I guess my initiative to do that may have sprung from the many weeks in the past that I had to work on weekends (because I didn't work on my hours on weekdays that I was supposed to), and I felt like I had to reward myself.
Although my Mondays are generally productive, there are some days that I just waste it away by going on Facebook, or sleeping. Classic procrastination. Tsk, tsk.
There are also times that I have a thousand thoughts in my head that I can blog about, and I tend to put it off. And although I do retain the memory of some of them, I lose the feeling. And I'm not really one to write without emotion.
They say procrastination 'eats one up' without realizing it. True enough, I believe I had stuck to such 'delaying tactics' that I don't even notice how it's affecting my timetable, and my commitments to work, family, friends...and even myself.
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Daily Dose was borne out of a 'lightbulb moment' I had on a slow, 'couch-potato' Monday. It came to me in the seeming bliss of my Facebook and pistachio ice cream combo.
I spent this morning mulling over an 'irritating' comment, and it affected my thoughts all day. I hate the way it brewed angry feelings inside me. I mean getting angry is natural, but most of the time, it's how people work WITH the emotion that makes it worse. I didn't want to do that. And that's when it came to me that every day is affected by how you deal with the situations you encounter. And it's up to you how to make it work against or for you. :)
Maybe this blog is all Peter Pan-ish, and too 'rose-tinted' for some, but we can't deny the fact that people want to feel good when they end the day. I for one wouldn't want to close my eyes and sleep filled with discontent or frustrations, anger or hate....Thus, this blog. :)
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TODAY'S RESOLUTION:
FOLLOWING THROUGH.
STICKING TO GOOD, PRODUCTIVE HABITS.
ACTION PLAN: Have a timetable to follow. Set goals.
What's YOUR resolution for today? :)
