One Life

There are some things that you keep putting off because you don’t think you can do it, or probably because you don’t want to. That’s what I’m doing now.

Yes, I’m supposed to be working on something else, but it was getting nowhere, and I got fed up with just sitting and watching my computer screen in its depressingly inactive state. So I thought I would do something useful.

Sometimes it takes a lot of discipline to do a simple task. When something is exciting, new or even difficult, we jump for it – anything but the mundane, right? Leave the dull stuff for later. Or when it seems too hard – which is my particular problem this morning. We become experts at putting things off. And most of the time it’s okay, provided we actually do it in the end. The problem comes when we don’t.

So I set you (and myself) a challenge. Do something today that you have been putting off. Just get it done. Imagine the sigh of relief afterwards – most likely it will not be as bad as you thought. And if it is, you have my sympathy.

So off I go. Bring it on, as they say.