Why do it now...

...when you can do it later?

I'll get to the dishes later,
the laundry can wait,
oh I don't have to make those phone calls today...

You name it, I put it off.

Then I read this:
"Resist the urge to slack off, even for just one day. The results of procrastination are worse than doing what needs to be done in the moment" Keeping House by Cindy Harris

All I'd wanted to find in that book was a few suggestions for how to clean stains out of our carpet. I'd run out of the commercial carpet cleaner I usually kept on hand for things like juice stains that seem to crop up every day.

I hadn't counted on finding a whole new way of thinking.

This past week I've accomplished more
slept more,
been more relaxed,
spent more time with my children,
had a cleaner house,
folded more laundry,
and started in on some major organisation in our lives...


...just by consciously changing one thought "I'll do it later" to
why do it later when I can do it now.