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“Why is this taking so long?”

Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Chita Hunter in Clinton Twp/Harrison Twp, Kalamazoo, Troy, Westland/Southfield

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In this day and age of always being so busy, how much are we really getting done?

Some of us pride ourselves at being multi-taskers; are we good at multi-tasking or just bumbling around? But my question isn’t really about being a multi-tasker; it’s asking are you really getting things done and the time you waste—purposefully.

There are a lot of things we’d like to accomplish. Whether it be the laundry, that article to write, that shelf to fix or build, that mess to clean up. “Things.”

These ‘things’ we need to get out of the way, or are obligated to do, are waiting for us to do them. They won’t get done by themselves. Yet we put them off or drag them out, on and on and on; so much longer than we need to.

How? By “getting ready to get ready” to do them.

You know what I mean. When you say “Ok, just let me do this first (insert task) and then I’ll get to (insert task here).” Or even the basic “I’ll get to that later.” But, you never seem to make it back around to (insert task here) because your “Ok, just let me do this first” task spiraled off into tree branches of other tasks that “needed to get done first”, too.

So, you never make it back around to your intended task, you get too tired, disenchanted, or you just plain walk away out of lack of desire. And it haunts you. Why? Because, you really had good intentions.

Sound like a merry-go-round? It is, and you are on it. I guess this merry-go-round is called procrastination on some levels and out-of-focus on others. Good intentions are great to have in getting things done, but taking action is a far better strategy.

Sometimes we look at a task and think that it’s going to take so long to complete, that we are hesitant to even get into it. Even when we know we need to.

Well, you might surprise yourself if you just start it.

Just throw yourself into it. If you stop making excuses and get into the task at hand, you may find that it’s done before you know it. And better, that you enjoyed doing it, or at best, it wasn’t as annoying as you thought.

I look at it as the less time I waste on doing things I have to do or don’t want to do, the more time I have to do the things I like to do. That thought usually spurs me right up to getting the task done. After all, this isn’t a trial run, we only have so much time anyway, I don’t want to waste any of it.

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