One of the reasons I started this blog is to help myself get over something I call obsessive procrastination. I think of obsessive procrastination as the reluctance to do now something I should have done yesterday. Or last week. Or three years ago.
Yeah.
Procrastination is a classic symptom of ADHD. Everyone procrastinates, but ADDers can make it an art form.
It’s weird. Anything that I love or want to do, I catch myself doing all the time, especially when I shouldn’t. But the moment that activity becomes something I should do, a mental barrier to doing it forms in my mind.
That’s what happened to Attention Defecit Devotional. I was loving it. I had a very small, but loyal readership. And then, the blog became something that I should do. But before I realized it, a month, then two months passed, and I had made no entries. That’s an eternity in cyberspace.
I can relate to the Apostle Paul when he writes, “I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. (Romans 7:19 NLT)”
I wish I could tell you that I’ve conquered procrastination and will now share my secret.
I can’t.
What I can encourage you to do is to constantly surrender that area of your life to Christ. When you stumble, take responsibility for your actions (or inactions), then trust in His grace and forgiveness.