Long Weekends are like Kryptonite for To-Do Lists!

Like most weekends, this past one started off with the best intentions. I spent Friday’s commute home making a To-Do list in my head of all the projects that I would have time to work on over the next three days.

But then in a blink of an eye, it was Monday night and I hadn’t started even ONE thing on my list. The weekend had flown by in a haze of sleeping in (a hobby I take very seriously), cleaning, doing errands and hanging out with friends.

And so once again, I had to admit defeat. The holiday weekend and all of its magical free time had proved too much for me. Just like Superman becomes powerless against his enemies when kryptonite is around, the long weekend had rendered me powerless against my mortal enemy – procrastination!

But Superman never gave up on his quest to rid the world of bad guys and I’m not giving up on my quest to thwart my bad habit – I will persevere!

Procrastination is like a Double Barrel Shotgun

For the past few years, I’ve been trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I was always envious of my friends who had that figured out at a young age. I always thought that would make life so much easier.

Not knowing has always bothered me, but I never gave it much thought when I was in my early 20’s because I felt like I had all the time in the world to figure it out. But as I got closer to turning 30, I started to wonder if I’d ever discover what I wanted to be.

But after a few years of obsessive soul searching, I eventually came to the realization that my life goal was to get back to my art and start my own business. I wanted the life that I read about in my magazines. I wanted to be that successful designer working out of a home studio, surrounded by my family, making my own schedule and finding inspiration on trips around the world.

For one split second I was ecstatic!

And then procrastination, my mortal enemy, blew away my hope with a double barrel shotgun.

[proh-kras-tuh-neyt]

pro⋅cras⋅ti⋅nate [proh-kras-tuh-neyt, pruh-] verb

1. to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
2. to put off till another day or time; defer; delay. [i]
3. to put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
4. to postpone or delay needlessly. [ii]

Holy shit!

That was the first thought that crossed my mind when I came across the above. I couldn’t have described myself better.

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[i] procrastination. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. Retrieved January 08, 2010, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/procrastination

[ii] procrastination. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved January 08, 2010, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/procrastination