Definitely slothful. Yep, this former procrastinator was a full-fledged sluggard last week. It started innocently. I was the good kind of tired from a family trip to the beach and the bad kind of tired from some jaw pain. (No, not from talking too much!) A day of rest was appropriate. There’s a difference between…
Since I’m prone to procrastination, these can be dreaded words to hear: “Where do you stand?” Maybe I’m the head of a committee or a project manager with a tough assignment or the teacher of my children who’d rather play with the new baby – and I have to report in on how I’m doing….
Not only am I prone to be a procrastinator, but I am prone to getting lost. I think I’m just missing the “directional chip.” Often it is difficult for me to discern direction or how one street runs in relation to another. My dear friend was once traveling with some other women. They stopped overnight…
As a recovering procrastinator, I have just come through a dismal time. I had blogged about facilitating diligence – then I did the opposite. I set myself up for problems and I got them. My time, energy, focus dwindled to a trickle. I shot myself in the foot. To “shoot oneself in the foot” originally…
After my good recalculated week, I procrastinated – big time. I grew some thorny branches in a few days. I have berated myself for not doing what needed doing when it needed doing. At least I recognized what I should have done and accepted responsibility for not doing those things. I should have made a…
Being diligent and not procrastinating lately, I thought I’d go crazy! Not because I put off procrastination, but because I was trying to do too much at once. We don’t often get large blocks of time to work with, but this January presents me with that. To take advantage of it, I have two major…
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