Sunday, February 5, 2012

Pouncing on Procrastination

This last week I was working on procrastination or rather how to break through it in both my glass art and in practicing my forms. It's amazing how a few hours can slip by and oops! too late. Enough of that nonsense so time to do something about it.

I am learning EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) or tapping that involves tapping on acupressure points while focusing on the issue. What I learned about procrastination is that at one time procrastination actually served because the project was not right at the time and since then the subconscious kicks into procrastination mode when it's time to move forward. So how was my procrastination "serving" me in regards to my glass and forms?

With my glass, procrastinating was "protecting" me from visiting burnout island. Been there, have the "souvenirs" and sorry, don't want to go back. What's not serving here is that this protection mechanism is keeping me in the T-ball league when really I need to be shooting for the major leagues. In forms the procrastination was keeping me from seeing my mistakes and therefore, keeping me from being wrong. After all, in my mind my forms are perfect and again, this keeps me stuck in T-ball league.

After I tapped on the issue, I set a plan in place for going forward. Along with my pushups and situps first thing in the morning, a form is also done to hook me in. Plus when I'm not at my torch, I set my alarm every hour-ish so that I get up from my computer and go train. My alarm is in an adjoining room so I have to get up to turn it off. So far that is working so carry on.

During practice with my broadsword, I noticed that I tore a hole in my pants. I wonder if we get clothing allowance.......
Sherri Donohue

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