I'm a Pro-Procrastinator

In looking for a really good site to link this post to I discovered the above link. I haven't read the whole post, so beware upon clicking, but I did read the first paragraph (because, really, I have WAY more important things to do than writing a new blog post!). In reading the first paragraph I knew this man knew what he was talking about. Case in point, the last few sentences from said first paragraph. :)

All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.


I had to laugh at the pencil analogy! I have a couple of friends with whom I've joked that we needed to have our husbands tell us, in all honesty, that they were planning a really big vacation. They needed to tell us when we were leaving (give us a really early departure time), where we were going, and that we needed to pack for 3 weeks. Then, after we'd cleaned the entire house, gone through all the drawers that we'd been putting off going through, and decluttered everything that needed to be decluttered...right before we started doing the actual packing...they needed to tell us we weren't really going on vacation, they just wanted us to get our houses cleaned out. :)

And, yes, just before we beat them to a bloody pulp they could hold up a previously packed suitcase and tell us they were sending us on a girlfriend's weekend as a reward.

We all think it's a brilliant plan, but the problem is getting our husbands to do such a thing without us realizing exactly what they're doing. 'Cuz we're pretty smart cookies, y'know!

And such is the reason I'm writing a new blog post. I have packing to do, house to clean, laundry to finish, and Christmas stuff to take down so I don't have to do it all when we come back. I just thought I'd get some "unnecessary...yet pressing" thoughts out of my mind so I can check it off my list. (yes, it's there...right under "clean out sock drawer." *grin*)

Have a wonderful Christmas! Hopefully I can post with pictures next time...and just as a teaser, I'm brewing up a post about Beethoven and the piano that may just surprise you. It's an amazing picture of how God uses our infirmities in ways we will never know this side of Heaven. Truly, when I realized what I was seeing I was absolutely blown away. I think you will be, too. Until then...I'm off to clean the washing machine lid with a toothbrush. ;-)