It’s after 4:00 p.m., and I ought to have done more gift-wrapping by now. In fact, wrapping is one of the few tasks that I had on my to-do list for the day, and I haven’t done it yet. Come to find out, I hate wrapping gifts more than I hate cleaning, so I have been cleaning instead. The bathroom looks so much better! Hooray! Meanwhile, there’s a pile of gifts still waiting to be wrapped.
And you know what? That’s fine. One of the few good things about being a procrastinator is that you learn to be flexible. If you’re really good at it, you always have dozens of fallback positions, all orderly arranged in your head. I am an expert procrastinator. I know that if I don’t wrap the presents today, I can find time to wrap them tomorrow. And if I don’t wrap them tomorrow, then I’ll wrap them Friday. If we really get down to the wire, some of them can be pushed off until after Christmas.
Yeah, I’ll be kicking myself later for not having done more today, but I am not worried yet. As our available time shrinks, we will have no choice but to pare down our list of tasks until all that is left is that which MUST be done. We will get those things done, one way or another.
Now I will stop procrastination-writing and go do some more cleaning! 😉
Pull the kids in for every gift that isn’t for them.