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Procrastination
Today I’m rather pleased with myself. Yesterday, I “tapped” on procrastination. I don’t really consider myself a procrastinator. When things need to get done, I do them. However, in the EFT sessions provided online, I realized I miss out on doing the things that will get me to where I really want to go.
I can’t attribute my dedication to myself entirely to EFT. “The Happiness Project” helped out, too. For example, the author’s tracking of her happiness goals led me to create my own which included writing and practicing the guitar. I’ve been accomplishing these tasks with far greater diligence than I have before. Primarily because I don’t hold myself to the big goals. Finishing a book or being able to play all of the songs on my CD aren’t feasible, but practicing for fifteen minutes a day or writing a five minute ramen recipe are easy.
I’ve really been enjoying the guitar. At first, what seemed to be impossible with my tiny fingers and the horrible pain in my wrist, now seems do-able. I make progress every day. I become addicted to word games that I become better at and now I can apply it to something that’s actually important!
Today, I took it a step further and decided to work on a musical I wrote some years ago. Seven or eight years ago, actually. I’ve been waiting for my very adept husband to score it with my melodies and lyrics. Today, however, I went into my Reason program and very sloppily started on one of my songs. He walked in and said, “Oh, great! Wow. You’re using fourths!” I don’t know what that means, but one day, much closer than eight years, I’ll have a musical!
Now then, I also started to organize a book that I thought I was almost finished two years ago. Lord knows why I dropped the project. Perhaps organizing it seemed too daunting, but I worked on that a few days this week and I feel like I can be finished rather soon. Will it get picked up? Will anyone care to read it? Will I lose money on it like I feel I’m losing on my CD? I don’t know, but I can at least say I did it and it’s done… soon :)
Thank you happiness experts!
PS While writing this, I lost part of my tooth. Am I going to let that and the fact that I don’t have any money to fix it get me down?
A frustrated victim of motivational speakers, Arena begins her look at the happiness industry with us while reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She will take us back to a Millionaire Mind Seminar where her quest to live her dreams brought her to a standstill with debt, legal trouble, and living in her worst nightmare - geographically, even.
Amy Arena holds a B.A. in American Studies from San Francisco State University. A respected actress and world-renown singer (at least underground) , Arena has written several peer-appreciated, but not-yet-produced plays, has published poetry and won awards for her short stories on websites that no longer exist, and produced an album that she can't afford to hype with the finesse of the happiness experts.
