Procrastinators unite! (Meeting has been moved to next month)

So, as most of my family and really close friends know, I tend to procrastinate.......a lot.

Like a lot, a lot.

As in if there's something I know I should be doing, and countless people have told me to do, I do something else that I have put off for months instead.

That's my kind of procrastination.

Like right now I should be either cleaning my kitchen, or cleaning my bathroom. (I haven't put these off for months, I just don't really want to do either right now.)

Instead not only am I blogging, I am listening to the multitude of videos that are from people I follow on Youtube. Currently I'm on the TED Talks videos. It's how I found the following gem.

This man, my lovely wonderful people, is Tim Urban. And he has an amazing TED Talk. He speaks of procrastination! 

Hence the title of this blog! 

I feel this video, so much! Almost more than the depression one I posted what feels like forever ago.  I say almost, because I have many more feels about that video, and this one really just makes me go "OHMYGOSH THAT DESCRIBES ME SO MUCH!"

What can I say? I do some of my best work when I have something due really soon. 

It doesn't work quite so well when it comes to things besides projects, and papers. Yet I still procrastinate on a lot of stuff. Like the box of mail that I have that I need to go through and open and stick in it's appropriate place. (Trash, File, Shred. You know what I'm speaking of!)

It also doesn't work when you're unemployed. Which sucks, but that's life.

If I only knew what I really wanted to do with my life. I would love to be an editor of some sort, but the only place that is local is a place where you really need to have some connections to get in, and being that I fall more on the blunt end of honesty when it comes to people, I don't really have those needed connections. 

But as Tim Urban says, everyone procrastinates on something every day. 

I just feel like I choose to procrastinate on the wrong things. 

Which is not good.

I'm working on it slowly. 

Snail pace, turtle crossing the road, making my families oldest dog Emma get up and go potty in the winter time, slow. 

Like waking up in the morning, and getting out of bed slow. (Trust me, for me this is slow! I am not a quick waking person!) 

Sometimes I fail, and sometimes I succeed. On occasion it depends on the day of the week as to if I succeed or fail. 

The TED Talk I'm listening just used the word Audacious. It makes me think of my high school English class when we went over SAT words and my teacher said it like Aw-day-shus Bold or daring!  Now every time I hear the word audacious that's what I think of, and I laugh every single time.

I wish I was more audacious, but in order to be so, one must first try to be so. 

It's easy to say something, but not quite so easy to change words into actions.

-Jacq