Thread by @roncaruthers

1. How procrastination robs you.

I thought you guys would enjoy a little story about what I did to myself recently.

Feel free to point and laugh, btw, but I'm willing to bet your guilty of the same.

2. I had a report to write for a client. Basically, a summary of what we had discussed.

I knew it was going to take me a couple of hours to write, and I would need to crunch a bunch of numbers to do it.

So, I put it off for WEEKS.

Literally, as long as I could

3. I finally sat down and did it.

And it took a couple of hours to do....just like I thought.

However, here is what I realized:

I had been obsessing about writing this summary everyday leading up to actually getting it done.

4, When I thought back about it, I'm guessing I spent AT LEAST 20 hours thinking about AVOIDING doing it....and I still had to do it anyways.

And, everyday I woke up, and usually last thing before bed, I was feeling guilty and thinking about this report that I wasn't doing.

5. It was haunting me.

Anyway, here's the lesson: we all KNOW we're not supposed to procrastinate on stuff.

I just thought that in this specific case, it cost me at least 10 times the emotional time and energy as just doing it in the first place did.

6. Learn from me and stop this habit if you have it.

Great quote: When there is a hill to climb,

Don't think that waiting will make it smaller.

/end

And yes, I just realized that it's supposed to be you're in the first tweet.

We need an edit button, @jack.