Emotions and procrastination

Hello to all!

Ever thought about your feelings when you are busy procrastinating? Well, the next time you find yourself staring at a pile of work you need to be doing, such as going through your receipts, cleaning out your purse or wallet, folding the ironing, whatever, think about how you feel.

You may be unsurprised that you feel resentful, angry, tired, all feelings that will usually stop you in your tracks, throw the lot into a drawer or back wherever and say: Blow it, I'm too tired/hungry/whatever. I'll do it later.

This is how your emotions work against you, and in the service of procrastination. However, in most cases, moods do not last for very long. No one on this earth can keep up a fury for too long; the body is just not equipped for it. The fury either burns itself out in a few minutes(although it seems much longer!), or settles to a low dull throb.

Start to clean out that wallet/purse. Don't go get that cup of coffee/tea/whatever. If you do, you will find a hundred other things to take your eye, and, before you know it, everything is all too much trouble and you will either throw your hands up in disgust and go back to bed, or go do probably nothing important. There is only one thing that is wrong with that scenario.

Whatever you put off with procrastination will still be there, smiling and waiting for you, even if you threw it in the bin. That purse/wallet will have something in it that you desperately need, probably the same day, so you are back to where you started.

The bag/wallet needs cleaning out.

So don't let your emotions override you. Use them to help you to do whatever task it is. If you are in a bad mood with someone, screwing up old pieces of unwanted paper, flinging a useless pen in the bin and pulling pieces of lint out from where they are hiding, can all be used to work off that mood, instead of possibly ruining a good friendship over one silly piece of not normal behavior.

Use the emotion. You may find that you do a far better job when you do of cleaning up the purse or wallet than you would have before. A friend of mine, in a fine fury with her sister one day, took to one of her 'bottomless pits' of bags and ruthlessly turned it inside-out. When she had finished, she was $60 richer than she thought, her bag was much lighter, and she had found several lip glosses that she thought she had left somewhere.

She was also not half as angry as she had been with her sister, and nothing had been done to spoil the usually close relationship they shared.

Good moods can also be useful. You can use them to start something, and use whatever comes after that particular mood to finish up.In a typical day, we may experience something like over a hundred different moods. Some we realize, most we don't, unless they are strong emotions, like anger, love, fear.The rest are simply ignored or are too soft to note consciously. But the sub-conscious does note.

I shall write more on the subject of emotions soon.

If you should like me to write something for you, you can contact me at: taylor.cheryl54@yahoo.com. I shall be happy to hear from you! :)