I Did It My Way

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Realized that I was slow in completing all the tasks which I must do, one was giving the exterior door of our laundry area some protection coating, I was in a slight panic. (Our handyman was supposed to do the task for me, but he never turned up.) It took me two weeks to figure out that I must use the same approach which I had often used in the past: mentally prepare myself first by telling myself the same thing over and over, 'I will do that task. I must do it and I must complete it (by such and such a date)!'. A few days before that, I began to prepare all the tools & materials. The night before that D-Day, I went to bed reciting to myself again and again: 'tomorrow when I wake up, I will devote myself to do that task!' Of course on that day, I procrastinated for as long as I could . The thought of cleaning/washing/preparing etc that raw timber door which should have been coated 2 years ago was so off-putting, so unpleasant. (It had been exposed to the weather since then, after the previous door was smashed and unsaveable by the burglar, who happens to be the son of our good neighbor.) Anyway, the task is done now. That door is now properly coated with 4 layers of oil which I had bought from Aldi a while ago to oil the deck of our garden shed. (That door won't lodge a complaint against me for using some decking oil for it I hope!). The door is now quite presentable. (It was smudgy/patchy before with dirt & rain marks, not too different from a chimney sweep boy's face!) Any task on your list which you have been procrastinated for a while now ? --- one of our cats when he was one year old.