Distractions

Sometimes...we're all just lazy.  Or we procrastinate.  Or...or...or.....

Ok yes.  Obviously I am putting off the things I need to do right now, but I'm releasing my distractions and focusing them all into this blog post to help myself and anyone who reads it to grow :-)

Well that's what I'm telling myself anyway.

I leave for Rome (this is where we're staying) & Sicily (woo hoo!) in 3 days and I have an env. bio. test in 2 days.  Let's see, I have more assignments to do than I can count on all my fingers and toes...so what have I been up to today? 

Oh I did some wedding planning, lived vicariously through my fiance's birthday glory -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVEN! Did all my laundry, started packing -- you get the picture.  I will admit I was highly productive last night till 2 am.  Which resulted in me waking up at 11 am. yikes.

Now you ask - well, Kelly? Why the random run-on sentence of all the things you're doing and what does this have to do with anything!?

Seriously yall, I'm the queen of procrastination.  It's something I struggle with constantly - and I KNOW I'm not alone.  I am well aware that we procrastinators outnumber those of you who always seem to stay 1 or 2 steps ahead of life.

I find myself not appreciating the things that I do accomplish though.  Sometimes I say - oh man, where did my day go?  Why haven't I gotten any studying done?  When in actuality, I do get SO much done - I cope!  

I've learned that if I'm not going to focus - no matter how hard I try to force myself - on the things I know I have to do, sometimes it's more productive to just get other things done too.


I mean, I know the cover of this book is pretty...but try reading it all day ;-)

Those things that I do instead may not be number 1 priorities on that ever-growing to-do list, but they're still important.  Yesterday I got my FAFSA filled out - CHECK! Today I did laundry and packed - ahead of time - that way I have more time to realize things I've forgotten and make adjustments before we leave - CHECK! Last night I got all my TA stuff done for the week - made graphs and charts updated grades sent everything to my professor nicely organized - CHECK! 

I even made a super healthy dinner with some of those roasted veggies I've talked about before and mixed with a little freshly shaved parm cheese (ok, a pretty good amount!) and bulgar wheat cooked in chicken broth (the grain they put in tebbouleh - um YUM!)


This is what it looks like:

Pretty right?  It absorbs twice it's volume when it cooks (so 2 cups water or broth to every 1 cup bulgar)  Start out in cold liquid, bring to boil, turn to simmer, covered, for about 15 minutes.  Can substitute for rice in any dish and is soooo yummy :-)


I digress.

So yes.  It's 5:15 on Tuesday evening and I'm just getting started on my work - but you know what - in 5 minutes I got more done than I probably would have all day because I can focus now.  I don't have all those other things that I wish I were doing instead distracting me anymore.  I didn't waste all day just sitting here trying to make myself do something I couldn't really focus on anyway.

So that's how I cope with procrastination - some may see it as counter-productive to do all those other things when instead I should just keep my head in the game...but the way I see it is, if I don't approach life this way, I just end up sitting on the sidelines...and I wanna play!

XO


p.s. this song just came on pandora & makes me very happy - Steve and I probably sing it about 800 times every time we drive between CO & FL:


Billy Joel - Piano Man (Live)


I'm mildly obsessed.  This man has more talent in his pinky toe than I do in my whole body!