Father Leo’s Daily Meditation
PROCRASTINATION
“You cannot build a reputationon things you are going to do.”
– Mabel Newcomber
Procrastination is the addicts’ game. I will give up alcohol tomorrow.
Soon I will take an inventory of my eating habits. Later I will talk to
him about my anger and pain. Tomorrow and tomorrow — but it
never happens!
The tragedy is that we not only bring pain and problems into our lives
but we keep them there. Recovery requires action; sobriety and the
spiritual program demand movement.
Today I will talk about my pain.
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I ask a lot of people if they know what happens to people who procrastinate…Nothing…I was & to a degree am still a horrible procrastinator…Why do today what I can put off till tomorrow…But AA & the 12 steps have really helped me deal with this problem…I found that when I started doing a consistent 10th step every night…no matter what…(I might interject here that sometimes I fall asleep while doing it & wake up in the morning with unrecognizable ink marks on the page) I discovered a discipline that has helped me in many different areas of my life…Procrastination being at the top of the list…Forcing myself to do my writing every night has been a great tool…Till next time…
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January 16th, 2010 - 11:40 am
i can associate procrastination with fear…and fear is truly a manifestation of selfishness…again and again i am always being brought back to the root of my troubles…something i’m not willing to face today is surely something i am afraid of doing…the insanity of that mode of thinking is what i put of until tomorrow will not be any easier if i don’t take care of it today…i am only delaying the inevitable…and there is that old threadbare idea i have that things will take care of themselves, or that it will all work out on its own…but the reality is issues i avoid only fester and multply…this is how my problems pile up on themselves and become astonishingly difficult to solve…i ask God for the courage and willpower to attack my problems head on today…and when life becomes unmanageable, as it still does today, i ask God for guidance and acceptance…if nothing changes nothing changes…this old behavior of ignoring the inevitable will surely lead to more suffering, and ultimately the drink