Why is it that as human beings we understand the things we need to do but for one reason or another, we don't follow through? For example, I have needed to clean my desk for about a year. This is a simple task and would probably take about a half an hour. But for whatever reason, I have not cleaned my desk. I got a laptop in February of 2009 but my desktop computer from college was still taking up all of the room on my desk. I did not dismantle my desktop and put the laptop on the desk until sometimes in 2010. I spent the year sitting on my bed with my laptop. Again, stupid tasks that get uncompleted. Another example is that I went to Boston in February of this year to visit some friends. I stayed the weekend and packed a duffle bag. It took a couple of months to remove even one or two items from the bag. But thus far, we are in late July and that duffle is still sitting on the floor, not unpacked.

Here I'm just talking about menial things. I'm not even going to talk about how I know I need to apply for jobs and what not. That does go back to reasons I can discuss in therapy. It's the little things that we don't do. Do we get so distracted by social media these days? For example, I'm blogging about this issue right now when I could be cleaning my desk. I will be happy once my desk is clean. I like when things are clean. I just don't like the process of getting there. Is it laziness? What could it be?

Go find one small task that you have been putting off and do it. You'll be glad you did. I think I'm going to start cleaning this stupid desk.