Contrary to popular belief, procrastination is productive.
With the immense pressure building up from the THING you’re avoiding doing, you
suddenly get done so many things you really wanted to do. The things that
actually matter to you, that you’d been putting off to do the things that you had
to do. The shelf you meant to clear and organize for two years. The quality
time you spent making a super mess with your kid on an art project. The phone
call to a really old friend you always meant to catch up with. The dinner you
wanted to plan with friends. Suddenly you’re convinced that these are more important,
and you have time to do the THING later. Then at the last minute, you get the
THING you HAD to do done and screech in with a hat under the falling door,
Indiana Jones style. Funny thing is, much of the time, the lack of effort on
the THING goes unnoticed.
It’s ironical that in the day to day prioritization of
activities, we bump up the to-do list the things which really aren’t important,
which we’d rather not do at all. And that there actually is time for it all,
but you spend unnecessary time stressing about how to do the THING that you got
done at last minute. Procrastination is so fulfilling and so spiritual!
