I think I have always been a procrastinator in one form or another. I don’t always do things last minute. There are a lot of times that I am ahead of the game and it sure does feel good. Then there are times when I am woefully behind and never seem to catch up. This week is one of those times. We are having new carpet and flooring put in our house next week so we are finishing up painting. We weren’t going to do anything to the downstairs bathroom, but decided we better since the wallpaper wasn’t looking too good. Well then came the two layers of wallpaper that was under the most recent. Then we thought we would be able to paint over the wallpaper in our master bath. Nope. It ain’t going to happen. So now we are behind in our projects. It’s driving me crazy and my face shows my stress. Pimples! I haven’t had a breakout in I don’t know how long. So all of this leads me back to procrastination. Why I am waiting until the last minute to get things done that could have been done months ago? This is an awful trait to have. I don’t want to be a procrastinator anymore. I am going to start anew in New Mexico. That’s my goal anyway. Hopefully I don’t procrastinate on that, too. 🙂
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what shoud have been done the day before yesterday.” Napoleon Hill
Jana, every home improvement project is like that: snags and setbacks ALWAYS come up and it ends up taking 3 or more times longer than you originally thought it would to finish. It’s annoying. But somehow, I look back with good memories on all the things I did to fix up our old house–the end result was so worth it and so fulfilling. Someday, you’ll be glad you put yourself through it, too! Good luck!!!
P.S. I’m a chronic procrastinator too–trying to reform.
I am so sorry that I passed this gene on to you!!! I remember you kids asking if we were having company when you came home from school to a clean fresh house and we weren’t having anyone come over. I try hard to get more organized and it seems as though my plans don’t always go the way I want but I keep striving to do better. I just keep reading that book Messie Motivator maybe it will sink in someday :).