What's Taking You So Long? Part I

PROCRASTINATE:
- to be slow or late about doing something that should be done
- to delay doing something until a later time because you don't         want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.
- to put off intentionally and habitually
- to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be         done 

"He who observes the wind [and waits for all conditions to be favorable] will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap." - Ecclesiastes 11:4 AMP

"Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact I will--tomorrow." - Gloria Pitzer

Did you ever heard the old joke about a club called Procrastinators Anonymous? It seems the club had to fold because the members never got together; the meetings kept getting put off. (HA HA goes there...smile)

Seriously, though it is an old, tired (and admittedly BAD) joke, it does address a valid point. People with the best intentions are most often the worst procrastinators. They constantly put things off for seemingly legitimate reasons: they're waiting for a more convenient time, or the right time, a better time, the best time, a better break, the "perfect" opportunity, etc. You may have noticed something all these so called reasons have in common. Every time someone makes an excuse to procrastinate, what they're really saying is:

"I'm waiting for the perfect opportunity to present itself. When that opportunity arrives I'll take advantage of it."

Now that sounds really good, and it seems to make sense, but here's the thing:  How will you recognize this "perfect" opportunity once it arrives? Short answer...YOU WON'T. Why not? Two reasons. First, nobody is perfect (not even you), and second, there's no such thing as a perfect opportunity. People seize opportunity wherever it can be found and create a way to make it work that suits them best. 

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

Point blank, everybody procrastinates. I do it, and so do you, just to varying degrees. Many of us resist opportunities we say we want, turning them down as they seemingly are handed to us on a silver platter, because they don't arrive the way we think they "should."

We know we shouldn't procrastinate, but we do it anyway...why? There are obvious reasons, of course: we really don't want to do what needs to be done, so we put it off; we're too lazy to get up and do what needs to be done, so we talk someone into doing it for us, believing it would be "easier" if we let them do it...but there's yet another reason we put things off, a reason seldom acknowledged, much less discussed...one reason that goes straight to the heart...

A reason I will reveal in Part II.  I gotta run, because there's a matter I need to attend to that I've been putting off for a while (no pun intended).

Talk with you again soon, 
Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel:

And until we meet again, remember...

Keep it simple... See ya!