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There are many reasons why we procrastinate. Some of the reasons are bigger, some of the reasons are smaller, and some change. Procrastination also offers us escape, we don’t want to know about the ways we really do fall short, and even if we were to, we lose the chance to hone necessary adjustments if we don’t try out things. Procrastination often involves actual avoidance, and also tends to form from a tight schedule that needs trimming but the trimming is done in the manner of procrastination rather than outright avoidance, leaving some confusion as to what is something to avoid and what is something to get around to again or for the first time at some later point. I say I’m procrastinating, when I’m actually avoiding. Something might be missing as a piece and I refuse to proceed without this missing piece which when subsequently provided, hasn’t broken through the procrastinating mantra that remains intact from my previous outlook and behavior relating to that outlook. What then are the missing pieces? First, then are the missing pieces which are whatever I am defining as missing pieces. Often, I might have defined something aptly as being a missing piece. But then the missing pieces might predominate so much, that I lose sight of what had been worthwhile about the pieces I had previously been in place and indeed were and are valuable. All the pieces might get back together, but the original vision is lost, propulsion is lost and I might as well strike the original proposition thoroughly. Trying to find some ways to fight procrastination and or at least counter it, might not be easy after a long layoff from this idea. One idea is to take the smallest possible steps that might not only seem less daunting but are in fact less daunting. Shade back on the original goal, and in many cases this might be by a lot. There is no need to bring larger goals into view unless the story starts to turn in that direction, but also monitor turns in the situation, which also indicate that the situation is warranting your attention for what the turn of the tide means. If the nature of the beast is that big, we might not enter the jungle. Think of an exceptionally bright sunny day, and you put the shades on. You are making the whole situation a little bit less or a lot less. In the meanwhile it seems what you need to go forward is lacking. If you shade away some of your goal, what you need or seem to need is a lot less. If you lessen the proposition, you lessen the reasons not to, and only again make it bigger if you find comfortable reasons to do so. You see the benefits and advantages of a little move, and just one piece of pie. Visibility is a question of size, scope, degree and quantity. Bring the situation into a lesser form, without changing the terms. I can still bring in the characteristics that are important. A sports example could be a baseball player in the major leagues attempting an at bat. If everything about this at bat in relation to cumulative hits for the season, home runs, better average, salary negotiations, are brought into this at bat, then this at bat might be something becomes bigger than it is. The bottom line is your bringing in too much smoke, and this is what makes for procrastination, and you may not jump at the first available good pitch for a quality swing as you could have. I still want a good at bat, but I don’t have to bring the weight of my whole personal world on my shoulder to keep company with the weight of the bat on my shoulder as I wait for the better pitch. What makes for procrastination is the importations of additions of that which isn’t required for the situation, all the more for something saying not to. One typical example is summing up on a date, which is detrimental to the needed sifting for wheat. I’m importing all of what I think tells me what I need to know, without any refinement of easily imported notions to what are the specifics of the here and now containments. One obstacle which really is an obstacle is blown up to be a block, which is different than a potentially movable obstacle so you are changing the nature of the beast you are facing. You can take the detour if it means that much but if you feel like trying again, this is your prerogative and you can make a turn back. Sheer buildup isn’t necessarily going to get you going either. Grit is good but it may not be working, because if it encounters obstacles, it may be deflated quickly and you need other tools if this happens. I may need to loosen the reigns in some way also so I can better ride my sleigh over some bumps. In the movies, when Santa rode his reindeer, he needed to loosen the reigns as he went from the North Pole towards the South Pole changing course from the familiar north. So as you go into situations that qualify for you as less familiar, you often need to loosen the reigns rather than tighten the reigns, all within reason of course, that is unless you are facing actual dangers and of course this always requires analysis, which you are depending on not matter what you do, but in more cases than not you need to loosen the reigns to fight procrastination to break away from the problems of avoidance which are forming from that procrastination. Then if we are going with the idea of value laden behavior we need to look at the wrap around value of the situations we are importing, and the interior reasons as to why we are imputing this kind of value rather than that kind of value. The search for value becomes more difficult for example on salable commodities if I am making predictions from here to 10 years out, rather than just for the week. Then in trying to make a choice, I throw out real value, where I should be still showing correct radar for real value, whether I choose it or not. Try to hone in on immediate and more transparent value. You don’t need to drive down value you recognize, just to make the situation smaller. Just focus the value more on the present and how you might have some equality to the value you are seeing, which might indeed be in some ways on equal terms with your internal discussions. You look at a gold coin for its value more so now than ten years from now where you might not be the holder of the coin and you might not be the holder of the opportunity you are procrastinating on now. Grasp upon the more tangible and underlying values as the are perceived to you as of now and don’t discount that value to shade it away, but let the further value emerge in a natural way, unfolding like a forming section of open sky amidst the clouds, and if value proceeds, you can proceed with it, if you find you are obtaining available and correlated means. If the lack of means leaves you by the wayside, at least you got a glimpse for possible future attempts, and if you never proceed at all, you will never unlock available value. You do want to shade in a bit, but you don't want to shade away meaning when meaning is there and you can recognize it. So while you want to shade down a bit on the situation, still keep full visibility towards the value, in a sense keeping at least on eye on the prize, but a little shade so it’s luminosity isn’t so overwhelming and so intimidating that I can’t find any path for any move forward towards the value I can still see.
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