When this former procrastinator was in the fourth grade, I went bowling for the first time. My total score for the whole game was either one or two! (How could I forget?) Only once did my ball make contact with the pins. All the other times it rolled off to the side and down the…
As a former procrastinator and bona fide physical weakling, I can no longer delay going to the gym. I’m going, but forming this new habit is not as smooth as I’d like. I’ll share what I wrestle with in establishing the gym as a habit. Please help me with your feedback! I need a mindset…
This week we former procrastinators celebrate the Fourth of July – the birthday of our country. We may play games, grill out, hit the pool, eat watermelon in the shade, and end the day with bright fireworks. A spirit of gratitude and celebration marks the occasion. Roughly 200 years ago the American colonies declared themselves…
The high cost of neglect is motivating for us former procrastinators. The consequences of not having done what needed doing when it needed doing are unpleasant, embarrassing, and expensive. (Please see The Cost of Neglect, May 30, 2016, and The Cost of Neglect Up Close, June 6, 2016.) Let’s continue with my list. Household –…
Fellow former procrastinators, neglect is expensive. Let’s get specific about last week’s topic. (Please see The Cost of Neglect, May 30, 2016.) Small problems become large when we do not tend to them early on. Later, as large problems, they take more time, effort, and attention than they would have taken when they were “small…
This former procrastinator could always fall asleep quickly – mostly because I was sleep deprived and exhausted from cramming too much in one day. Staying asleep was something else. I would wake up tormented by thoughts of the consequences of things I had neglected. Because I did not do what needed doing when it needed…
As a former procrastinator, I often “hear” something my mother used to say to me. My mom would observe my roundabout way of approaching a chore or see me do something that would cause me to do more work later. She’d say, “You’re making work for yourself.” I can’t recall what I did that prompted…
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
. . . you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
Colossians 3:9-10