Thursday, January 30, 2014

Procrastination. The thing I am best at / struggle most with.

My homepage is ZenHabits.net and for good reason.  For anyone reading this, I suggest that you visit that site if you're looking for uplifting, simplistic, yet realistic ways to handle your life.  This is an excerpt out of today's post that honestly couldn't describe my overwhelming procrastination problem better.
  • Fear. Procrastination is often about fear — fear of failure, fear of success, self-doubts. But we don’t often know that this fear is even there — we just act on the fear. Fears, once we’re aware of them, can be beaten by the light of day. When we see fears out in the open, in the light, we can see they’ve been overblown in our minds. The worst-case scenario of failure is often not that bad when we really think about it.
(This Calvin and Hobbes panel is the epitome of my life)

For anyone interested, click here for the page of "Best of Zen Habits" posts.  It's a good starting point.