Not It!!

You know as in… the school needs some volunteers for some really extra cool stuff the teachers want to put on for YOUR kid to make learning fun. NOT IT! There’s a powerful union of people gathering for a fund raiser with an extraordinary cause. NOT IT! Just…you know what? No need to even get clever here. You name it…Not It. I’m too busy for that. I have four, count ‘em, 1 2 3 4 kids that need me. A husband and a house that needs me. School needs me. Heck, “I” need me. I just canNOT add more to my plate.

But guess what the reality is… I’m a terrific procrastinator. I will successfully put anything off until the last possible moment that I would need to get started in order to finish it. In short, it gets done…yeah. But what am I really doing in the mean time while putting it off? Think about this Rosie. (I talk to myself VERY often). So think about this. You know you’re going to wait to get that done. You fill in the gap of that waiting time with something else anyways. Whether or not the substitute task is productive or not. Like, I was just talking to a friend of mine who can relate. (maybe another sufferer of procrastination) and we both agreed that the best time to really get down and clean our homes is …when? When? When it’s falling apart and is calling for your attention? NOPE. Not then. The answer is… It’s going to get done when I have something else, perhaps more pressing, that I’m supposed to be doing.

What a marvelous discovery. MarVeLoUS! It’s not at all marvelous but, doing the math, it can be. The missing equation here is simply that I do need to add more to my plate. Stop babying myself and just stop saying, “Not It”.

I really am implementing this. I am going through a huge growing phase. like self growth. So I know this new understanding of myself can only help me out big time. That’s not why I’m here though. I didn’t just HAVE to share about this huge growing experience for me. No, the real reason is I have a paper due in less than an hour. That’s why I’m really here. Sad. It totally is what it is, but I’m determined to fill up that plate of mine. IF things aren’t going to get done anyways one great thing to come out of it is that I will fill in these gaps with other great things.

Wow. what. a. concept.