The granddaddy of all procrastinators is having excuses. They are really good at finding excuses that might sound reasonable in the first sight. “I do not have time”, “I am not ready yet”, “I am busy”. However, these are usually attempts to deal and work on the things that are truly important and uncomfortable.
They find themselves consistently dealing with things that are not important in their lives, that do not make a difference whether they do them or not and still are surprised that they are not enjoying the type of life that they live in. The reason for this does not have to do with anything besides their own mindset and their own attitude. They are afraid to deal with things that are really important and hide themselves behind the curtain of small tasks.
I am writing these lines as personal experiences and patterns that I have identified in myself and though I have been able to overcome them, I still struggle, but I do not have any intent of giving up. I have been consistently delaying writing blog posts for this blog, because I thought that I did not have enough time, I did not have a beautiful website and I would only be speaking to myself. Fortunately, I have not taken the lack of ideas as an excuse, because thankfully, I have a lot of ideas that regularly come to me about the topics that I might consider worth tackling in this blog.
After these types of struggle, I finally decided to write two blog articles per week and there should not be any excuse. I am not going to worry about the quality, traffic or anything else. My main priority is to sit down and write two articles per week and keep this consistency as an important commitment in my endeavors. Now, six months after that, I am still writing articles on a regular basis and I know that I am rarely writing some decent articles, and a lot of times articles that an average sixth grade student would be able to write better than them. As I said, I do not want to take that as an excuse of not writing, as I see writing as an important process in my life. Still, I sometimes find it difficult to motivate myself to write, or I have a heavy workload that I must deal with, but I have to commit writing two blog posts per week.
My suggestion for you and as a reminder for myself would be: If it is important enough, do not overthink it. Start immediately and expect to fail. It is not embarrassing to fail, but it is embarrassing to not start at all. After you start, you will get motivated – people have a tendency to finish the things that they have started.
