Hmmm, so much for good intentions.  I had planned to write something for this blog at least once a week, but it appears that I've managed to procrastinate for almost a YEAR.  Why is it that it is so easy to do things we don't want to do (like eating handfuls of leftover Halloween candy) but it is so difficult to do things that we really do want to do (like getting a blog post written)?

Over the last eleven months, I have often thought of topics I would like to write about on this blog and I have even made notes about a few of those ideas, but I just never seem to get around to sitting down and typing the posts.

So, what keeps us from doing what we really want to do?

Sometimes responsibilities need to be taken care of first.  I couldn't very well tell my children, "Sorry, you don't get dinner tonight because I promised myself I would blog once a week." I often feel like my house owns me rather than the other way around. 

Sometimes something urgent comes up.  When the kids, my husband or I get really sick; all writing and fun projects (like working on the kids' scrapbooks) get put on hold for a while.  When it's time to prepare taxes, make sausage as a family, send out Christmas cards, etc.; everything non-essential has to wait until I get those projects done.

Sometimes fears get in the way.  What if I embarrass myself by writing something that is too negative, too personal or too boring because I was writing while I was in a bad mood or overly tired?


Sometimes our own assumptions keep us from doing what we want to do.  I am plagued by an assumption that a blog post (or various other projects that I want to get done) will take a lot of uninterrupted time to complete, so I don't even try writing unless I have hours of child-free time. 

But, as I write this, I realize that I can complete a project even with several phone call interruptions, potty breaks for my youngest who is still potty training, a snack for my son (thanks a lot Barney for singing about ice cream!) and three different delivery people showing up in one day (an all time record for our place).

What fun &/or important projects have you been putting aside and is there a way that you can overcome whatever has been keeping you from them?