Now's the time...

"I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow...after all, tomorrow is another day."

~Miss Scarlett O'Hara (Gone With the Wind)

  

My whole life I have had to fight the dread disease of procrastination, or as I like to call - SMD or "Starting Monday Disorder". I have lived by Miss O'Hara's motto for so long, I have almost forgotten what it means to do something NOW. After years and years of telling myself "I'll just start on this paper tomorrow", "Starting on Monday, I'll eat healthier", "Okay, tomorrow I am going to get organized", "I really am going to start exercising first thing Monday morning", "I'll start on my taxes this coming Monday"," I'm going to get the house cleaned tomorrow", "Starting Monday I am going to stop putting things off" I am now ready to live today and every day of the week - not just on Mondays and tomorrows.  I am sure you are wondering what actually happened when Monday came around or tomorrow became today.  Well, I'll tell you - a whole big bunch of self inflicted STRESS. I would be so overwhelmed over all that I had set aside to do on Monday, I would find myself rehearsing the words of Scarlett O'Hara, "I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow".

My disorder inspired me to write a self help book entitled Starting Monday.  I figured that I could help the masses by divulging the simple solution to overcoming procrastination.  After about a year of saying, "I will start writing Starting Monday on Monday", I figured maybe I had better discover that simple solution for myself before I attempted writing a book that would have no end and no resolution. So, I am ready to embark on a journey of discovery. I plan on setting goals and actually reaching them; I plan on facing life's tasks right when they are presented to me. So, here I am, on a SATURDAY afternoon, determined to start this project now, right this very moment, on Saturday, and not on Monday! I plan on writing about every new awakening, each fresh insight, and the novel discoveries that I gain in this process.  So, please join me on my  journey to a new action-filled, energetic, get-things-done life.  Feel free to add any insight that you may have.

  

* My first discovery: If I follow Scarlett O'Hara's motto, my life will literally be Gone with the Wind.

* My new motto: "Never put off til tomorrow what you can do today."

~Thomas Jefferson