Are we a nation of procrastination?

Do you ever have this feeling, there is… something pulling you away from things that you actually have to do? 

I sound like a traveling salesman, who will try to foist upon you a Bible or a ‘cure-all’ tonic, don’t i? Promise, i won’t try to sell you anything! 

To sell you something i need to first make that something and something is pulling me away from actually getting things done… 

So, before working on making these tonics to sell you, i can start with a research! And i can write an essay too!

We are doing something important, we are brewing our creative process. Some very wise people, who got their psychology degree from the most trusted online holistic courses (I’ve heard Channeling Chakra Movement online Institute in Saskatchewan has an excellent Psychology Department, just excellent) are saying on Youtube, procrastination is actually coming from multiple childhood traumas. 

And first of all, before even starting to brew this creative process of making anything done, we need to nurture our inner child! I am not sure, when this poor little inner motherfucker will actually be satisfied and let me move on with my life.. and things that need to be done, while we are at it, but i’ll keep nurturing… i am a very nurturing person.

Ask all three nannies of my kid! 

I remember my friend got an assignment from his therapist (to his defense, it was before everyone had one, having a therapist was still punk rock in Russia back in a day).

So, the assignment, - he was supposed to write an essay on a subject of doing things without motivation. It was 15 years ago. I am pretty sure, he is still working on that essay… while nurturing his inner child.. that brat of his needed a ton of nurturing to become a decent human being, but it is a completely different story.

Doing things without motivation. 

That is very stoic, isn’t it? Or nihilistic? I can never understand the difference between all these philosophical movements... and i am in a philosophical discussion group myself. I think they invited me only because they needed a place for gathering though, and i run a little bookshop in town…

Anyway, i really believe in philosophical essays, with or without motivation, and writing things down to figure out, what is wrong. 

Because something is always wrong.

‘I am not okay, you are definitely not okay’ - that will be the title of my first self-help book!

After i figure out that procrastination thing first, of course. 

Lists are good too.

First thing you can cross off is ‘To make a list’, but it is an ancient wisdom, shouldn’t even mention it. Sometimes you can mix up serious tasks with more frivolous.. scroll through Pintrest for inspiration, for example, can be right before ‘send an email to your mother’.

To tell the truth, somehow i never feel much satisfaction from crossing things off the list… 

Maybe i need to do a little more research on lists. 

Or write an essay?