Procrastination: Sometimes You Need to Just Accept It

Written by Cheryl Rainfield


You might wonder how procrastination applies to loving yourself. Well, if you procrastinate, and are anything like me, you'll put something off, and put something off, allrepparttar while nagging yourself and feeling worse and worse about yourself. We put ourselves through so much--when really, we should just accept that we need to get to our goal slower, or even just be goal-less for a while.

I think that there's often a good reason for procrastination. Our society sees procrastination as a negative thing--what are you doing putting it off; just get it done--but I think it's a message to ourselves that we are not quite ready to do something yet. And that's okay.

Sometimes we need to take our time getting there. This is often true with creative solutions, thoughts, andrepparttar 131106 creative process in general, that there's a period where we must put asiderepparttar 131107 problem or goal and stop consciously thinking about it, almost put those thoughts into temporary hibernation. We may feel like we're doing nothing, but actually things are moving underrepparttar 131108 surface, even (or perhaps especially) when we're not aware of them. It's a kind of incubation period for creativity and change, and a part ofrepparttar 131109 process. It's important to give yourselfrepparttar 131110 time to just "do nothing," while thoughts are working themselves out deep down inside, on a subconscious level.

Or maybe we have to get past an emotional block before we can do whatever it is we need to do, or think we should be doing. Or maybe there's something else that needs our attention and emotional energy more thanrepparttar 131111 thing we think we should be doing.

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