To Do or not To Do

In this post, Steve Pavlina extols the virtues of procrastination, basically saying that there are times when your brain is trying to tell you that what you want to get done is just not meaningful. Fair enough, I have seen plenty of job-seekers procrastinate months away because they are going after a job they “should” want, not one they actually do want. So, Steve has a good point. The flip side is that often we procrastinate because the thing we want to do is SO important that to actually undertake incurs the risk of failure, and failure at something important, something approaching a heart’s desire, really hurts, much more so than failure at something trivial, so we do the trivial, not the profound. Perverse, I know… So how do you know? Ask yourself, what would I do if I knew I couldn’t fail? That gives you an idea of the direction you want to go, now is that the direction you are actually heading? If so, unto the breach, dear friend, if not, time to rethink life’s priorities.