Putting It Off…What Might Your Procrastination Be Telling You?

“When I keep putting something off, it may not be procrastination, but a decision I’ve already made and not yet admitted to myself.”

– Judith M. Knowlton

Yikes! Let me tell you, I did NOT like the feeling I got when I read that quote the other day.

But it certainly got me asking myself some uncomfortable questions about why I seem to be procrastinating on projects and goals that are, supposedly, important to me.

Perhaps one way to tell if we are, indeed, procrastinating on a task or project is to ask ourselves the feeling we get when we think about it.

“We know that we have things that need to be done, and the more we think about them, the more leaden we feel,” writes Anne Wilson Schaef in her book, Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much.

The word “leaden” denotes a feeling of heaviness — and there’s nothing quite like the dead weight of an unattained goal or unachieved dream to drag one’s soul down.

So if I do feel leaden when I think of all the tasks I need to do in order to move, say, a writing project forward, the logical next question would be: if I did just one task, would that make…