Start Overcoming Busy Right Now – Get it over with!
November 6, 2009 by Marci
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This is part of the weekly series “Start Overcoming Busy Right Now”. This series gives tips to begin overcoming busy immediately, right where you are.
What’s the one thing on your to do list that you keep putting off? I mean, it needs to be done and will probably take 10 minutes to accomplish. But, the though of it makes you cringe and causes you to shove it way back in the cobwebs of your mind where no one will ever find it. You hope it will just go away or someone else will do it. You know better.
My advice? Get it over with! Just do it! Do it first! Don’t think about it, just get it done. You have already wasted exponentially more time and mental energy procrastinating than if you would have actually just finished the task and crossed it off the list!
There’s my two cents. What are you putting off?
Comments (5)
Putting the laundry away! I don’t mind washing it and folding it, but I can’t stand putting it away. There is a basket of my little guys’ clothes sitting in the living room floor for 3 days now.
Every time I walk by it, I think to myself…”I’ll get to it in a minute!” I think I am going to take your advice and just do it!
Organizing our paperwork. We just to get it all put away once and for all. We also need to have a better system to maintain our paperwork. Ok, now when my little one takes a nap today I will tackle that first. Thanks!
Sometimes ignoring a task will actually make it go away. I recently got in the habit of writing down a task rather than acting on it immediately. It’s fun to go back over my list later and mark off tasks that seemed worthwhile at the time I wrote them down but when measured against all the other tasks I have written down are really not even worth doing. So I get to mark them off the list without ever taking action.
I’m sooo putting off cleaning off the desk in my room. It’s a landing place for all kinds of things: papers that need to be filed, books that don’t fit on my nightstand (that need to go to my bookshelves…another task I’m putting off!) craft projects, etc. And you’re right….I need to just do it. It’ll take maybe 15 minutes, tops. I’m going to do it tonight, I promise. Could you please send me a reminder?????
Today I stumbled across your blog for the first time looking for menu ideas via Menu Plan Monday (orgjunkie.com). I saw this little cartoon and it is hilarious, albeit so very true. That is priceless. Thank you so much for that much needed laugh.
No doubt the Internet is a great distraction for me from the many items on my to-do list. Today’s goal is to compile a menu for the rest of this week and all of next week. After I do so the computer is getting turned off….for the morning.