Thursday, January 21, 2010

Sometimes it's big and sometimes it's small.

Most of the time I like to do things myself, I often think that I may burden someone if I ask them for help, or if I get things wrong then I don't have to worry about confronting another person it is just myself and I have only myself to be angry with. Everyone has pet peeves, annoyances and irritations. Some of them are smaller and some people seem to live in their own world so outside actions do not affect them. For me I often get irritated and annoyed about something I have done myself. It is often because I have procrastinated and made a situation into something it should not have been. Today was one of those days. I had put off helping my daughter O. with a speech because it was far off and because I didn't think she really needed my help, it seemed like she was doing well with it. Today I actually took a look at the outline the teacher gave her, and she is going to have to start her speech over. I feel bad for her because she asked me for help repeatedly and I brushed her off telling her to just get to work on it. That is one of those things that I would get really angry at someone else for doing. Poor O. her mom is the reason she has to do twice the work. Later in the evening R. and M. came over, I have wanted to take pictures of the two of them together for so long and tonight was very quiet so I started and was having fun and they were very natural pictures. But I ran out of room on my card, so my procrastination comes back to bite me in the butt. I could not continue with the pictures because M. was getting tired and it would have been time for them to leave by the time I emptied the card. I was upset but I can't waste time worrying about it. I carried on and we had a pleasant visit. I just finished clearing off the memory card on my camera, I didn't put it off again. I have a feeling in the next few months as a reformed procrastinator, I will have a lot of loose ends whip around and catch me. I will find it more annoying, and noticeable now that I am actively trying not to procrastinate. So far nothing has been terribly big, I really hope I don't run into anything. I hope all of my found jobs and mishaps due to procrastination are small.
I am doing fairly well catching up on old stuff no where near complete but certainly dedicated. I am now going off to bed but I will leave you with a quote by Fred Brooks "How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

2 comments:

A New Me said...

Sorry I made a mess of the post so will retry. I am thoroughly enjoying reading about you this way. It is very enlightening and I look forward to tomorrows post.
Thank you

Anonymous said...

My love,

Next time you are beating yourself up over the things you planned to finish that day but never did, consider the many unplanned tasks that dropped into your lap on the way - things that were not on the menu but that you had to deal with nonetheless. Life has a way of going its own way and sometimes one ends up being more the passenger than the driver. It's messy and crazy and wonderful and I would not wish to miss a minute of it with you.

xoxoxo
P.