rocket through procrastination

I am veering off topic today. Seeking a new recipe. This post has little to do with the green leafy kind of rocket pictured and more to do with the spaceship blast off kind of rocket force required to bust through procrastination. Do you suffer from putting off til tomorrow what you could and should definitely do today? Including improve the quality and or quantity of food you eat?

I have always left things til the last minute worked well under pressure. I have though been giving a lot of thought recently to changing my last minute ways and I am interested to hear how you manage or mismanage that precious resource: time.

For example, this week River has been home from school sick with conjunctivitus, cough and temperature which has rendered us housebound. As much as I don't like to see River feeling unwell, the silver lining in this cloud is I have worked through my list of housey things I have been putting off. I have also felt grateful that I am able to be at home with him and Sol making chicken soup and giving him some extra TLC.

Every task I finished was so much quicker and easier to do than my thinking self had conjured up for me. As with nearly every task I put off once I have done it or at the very least started the job I always think "That was easier than I thought it would be. Why didn't I do that sooner?!"

Therein lays the secret. Turn off the thinking. Or as my Darling husband often tells me when it comes to getting things done "Take the emotion out of it". He is right. It works.

So what's my strategy for changing my ways? Every time the angel of procrastination whispers "you can do that later" I am going to Begin It Now.

Have you ever put off something and then when you finally did it think "Why didn't I do this days, weeks or years ago?" What are your tips for busting through procrastinating? Or, do you think there is any truth that procrastination serves a purpose? I'd love to know.