Procrastination

For the past 13 years, I’ve been a fulltime mom and wife and a part-time employee.  For years, I would always wonder how full-time working moms could do it all.  They work over 40 hours per week, cook, drive the kids to their activities, make sure the house is in order, get the laundry done, and do the shopping.  I’d ask myself over and over, how they do it?  How is there enough hours in the day to get that all done?  What am I doing wrong that I can barely get everything done and I only work part-time?  I use my two days off (during the week) to get everything done for my family and our house.  What can I do to maximize my time and be as productive as the full time working moms?

Well, about two months ago, I figured it out.  I became a full-time working mom!  Do you know what I was doing wrong? I was procrastinating! I was putting off my tasks until my next day off or the weekend.  I had enough free time during the week that I would tell myself I could take care of that in two days, or three days, etc.  Procrastination is a horrible thing! It can get you into a lot of trouble.

Nothing ever good comes out of procrastination.  If you let it, procrastination can be a real downer!

When I started my full-time career, I wondered how I was going to do it all.  How do I continue to take care of my kids, my husband, and our house and have time for my volunteer positions?  My answer … procrastination had to be taken out of my life!  There is no place for procrastination in a mom’s world.  If you think you are going to take care of something tomorrow, think again.  There’s going to be three more things in that spot, tomorrow.

Since I started my new job and I am very happy with what I’ve been able to accomplished!  I no longer tell myself, “Oh, I can do that tomorrow.”  I don’t have time tomorrow! If I have time available, I make good use of that time! It’s amazing what you accomplish when you set your mind to it and not let procrastination get in the way. Take it from me, you will be very impressed with what you can accomplish if procrastination doesn’t exist in your world.

There are five reasons why people procrastinate and those reasons are:

• Fear of failure
• Being a perfectionist
• Confusion and self doubt
• Poor motivation
• Lack of priorities

You can work through these several roadblocks if you understand that failure is part of living and you are not afraid of imperfection.  Be confident and strive for ways to start a task.  Another way to help offset procrastination is to make lists of what your priorities are and put a time line on them.

Don’t put off something until tomorrow that you can do right now! Get up and take care of it and you’ll feel a whole lot better!