Procrastination . . . Is It a Bad Thing?

          Kitty is the one with the whirlwind schedule and she’s getting her blogs out on time (Or arranging for guest bloggers). What’s wrong with me?

          Today I am overwhelmed. Of course, if I didn’t leave writing my blog until the last minute, I wouldn’t be in this pickle. I have every intention of writing this blog each Monday, to be ready to post for the next week. If I take 30-40 minutes to write some initial thoughts on Monday and come back to it a day or two later, it takes maybe another 30 minutes to polish it up and post it. I really can get an entry written and posted in about an hour, two at most.

          But I am a procrastinator. Invariably, I’ll put off writing my blog on Monday or Tuesday, thinking I have all week. Then, because I also suffer from out of sight-out of mind syndrome, it usually gets forgotten until Friday . . . or even Sunday night. That’s what happened this week. I was in bed when I remembered this blog. As I drifted asleep, I told myself I would do it first thing in the morning. Morning is here. And all the responsibilities that I put off last week are clamoring for my attention. All forgotten until now, when they have to be done.

          Am I the only one who does this? Surely not. So what’s the cure?

          Or . . . new thought . . . do I even need a cure?

          Maybe it’s not a matter of curing a disease as learning to live with the way I am “wired”. I have always contended that every fault is a strength gone bad. So is procrastination the strength gone bad? Or is procrastination actually a strength and giving it free rein is letting it go bad? Or is there even more to this and, if I had more time, I would get more insight?

          Interesting thoughts. What do you think? Is there a way that procrastination can actually be a good thing?