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Set a timer, beat procrastination

May 14, 2021

Nature journal finally caught up

April 2021 Nature Journal

“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”

— Napoleon Hill

It’s the middle of May and I’m just now finished with April’s phenology wheel and nature journal page. I kept putting it off because with each day that passed, the job got bigger. Would take more time. Further and further behind and the inner critic screamed “YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST QUIT!”

I sat with the resistance for a few days and searched for the reason why I wasn’t making the time to paint. 1. I’m “supposed” to be writing, and 2. I know if I start, I won’t want to stop.

Conundrum.

I set a timer for 20 minutes and painted. An hour or so later, it was done. And I don’t remember hitting stop on the alarm.

Now I’m free to write. 

If you’re struggling with juggling and tending to a project, try setting a timer and work on one thing.

Tick tock!

April Monthly
April 2021 Phenology Wheel
April 2021 Nature Journal

Filed Under: Art Projects Tagged With: creative life, creativity exercises, nature journal, phenology wheel, the 100 day project

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Bex Hall

Her writing has appeared in various online and print publications, most recently in Kerning, a literary magazine, and in the Stories of Hope Collection in Transplant Living. Her artwork has appeared and sold through the Grayson Gallery. She blogs here about creative life and creates in Studio BE overlooking the Ohio River. Her work in progress is a memoir about the secret life of objects.

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