Can’t you hear the grass growing?

# Chapter 336

You have to decide, and its more difficult than it should be it seems. But you have to decide. I did. I got up off my lazy duff and I got the yard work done. Yes it was hot as blazes and yes it hadn’t been done properly for two weeks so it was extra difficult and yes these and more reasons are why I was delaying delaying delaying, but hey that grass is still growing even while you delay over and over and that means the difficulty only gets worse and worse the more you delay and delay. Do you see the cycle here? The delay only harms you or makes the work worse when you finally do decide and hey, you will finally decide. Delay is not the decision, delay is a strategy and usually a poor one at that.

I mean you have too much self respect to allow your yard to become a jungle, so you will cut it and trim it and finish it. At some point this will happen. There is no ideal time to do the work, so make the decision already! Block out the distractions that are convincing you to use the delay strategy and do the hard sweaty work. The grass is growing, can’t you hear it?

Delay is a subtle strategy mind game where you convince yourself that there is a better time to do whatever, in the near future rather than right now. The near future never being defined, so that it can continue being “the near future” in your delay strategy. My dad is even noticing that I don’t play this game often. If he mentions there is a job to be done, then I want to get started! I think this is a fine way to counter the seduction of the delay strategy in my third third of life.