Comments on: Oh, the Inertia

By: The Wedding Week

The Wedding Week — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:41:36 +0000

[...] been a while. This week I’ve been injecting new life into projects that have been overcome by inertia, so it’s only fitting that I update this bliggity blog, too. After all, Darren and I got [...]

By: Melia

Melia — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:14:04 +0000

Haha, Dustin, I know that physics really gets your blood pumping! It helps to know that my awesome friends also go through periods of procrastination and inertia. Yeah…next year I will stop getting a six-month extension for my taxes! And you’re right that sometimes you just need to go with the flow, and then things happen effortlessly. I remembered just this morning that I’d written a post about that (http://www.reschoolyourself.com/giving-up-the-struggle).

Margaret, that’s a good idea - knocking little things off the To Do list while waiting for water to boil — or being on hold. Congrats on finishing your shower curtain project, whatever it may be! Celebrating those victories is important, too, even when we think they “should” have been done long ago. And we should stop “shoulding”! Do keep a place on your bookshelf open for me.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:02:43 +0000

Spot on with the guilt and self-loathing! One approach I’ve taken is to write up (we love lists) things that need to get done, think through the baby steps needed to get one of the tasks done, and when I’m annoyed that my computer is slow, or watching a pot of water boil, do one of those steps. It can even be to look up an address of a place you need to go to get a curtain rod! I just finally finished a shower curtain ‘project’ (it’s complicated to explain) after a few months of baby steps, done when my mind wasn’t on the thing I was doing.
As for dishes, I’ve conditioned myself to like the look of them drying on the counter next to the window. Sometimes, self-delusion is helpful. Not in the case of true heart’s desires, though. Writing, Sparking, these things succeed when enough people believe in them. I believe RSY has a place in the world, and on the bookshelf!

By: dustin

dustin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:48:16 +0000

Nice post, Melia. You know me, physics always gets me riled up.

What you say has really struck a chord with me; I too feel those feelings of angst when I have let something sit for too long, be it a task, chore, blog post, taxes (yikes)…

However, for as overbearing as those feelings become, I try not to lose sight of where I am despite not being how I would like to be sometimes. I hope you don’t either, nor do I think you do. So, I go with the proverbial flow. They will get done, things that is; I trust that because I trust myself. The how and when are details–yes, the devil lives within them–but the prominence of the why is what keeps me from fretting, too much.