Yesterday, I organized my beads again and cleaned my beading tools. I may just restart again. I want to restart, but procrastination gets in the way. I have this on-off relationship with my beads… sometimes I love them and give them all of my precious time, oftentimes I ignore them and they just accumulate rust and dust.
It makes me happy and excited visualizing a beaded jewelry project, and after that I wonder who to give it to. Or the possibility of selling what I make online. I know I love it, but why do I always put it off?
Procrastination seems built into human nature, and almost all of us do it at one point in time. Filipinos are more familiar to the term “manana habit,” which is often translated to tagalog as “mamaya na” (much later).
If others, put things off because they see it as difficult and unwanted task, then I may have other reasons for my delayed bead projects. I enjoy doing it so much but I feel I have more urgent things to attend to because it is time consuming. To overcome this, I must convince myself that I am only doing this one hour every night and gradually it becomes a habit.
Sometimes I also feel that I don’t have enough jewelry making skills to be confident about. I fear that others won’t buy what I make, or the receiver won’t like it. Well, the best way is to learn, research and practice! If I am not confident with what I do, how do I expect others to be perceptive of it?
Tell yourself, “This task is easy, I can do it, how hard can it be?” Running the risk of sounding like a crazy woman. Do it when noone else is in the room. Hahaha.
Some quotes related to Procrastination, for us to think about.
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
- Don Marquis
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
- George Claude Lorimer
“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.”
- Karen Lamb
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
And I. AM. TAKING. PROBABLY THE. THIRD. FIFTH. SIXTH. STEP. I hope this time I can make it though. Wish me luck!
