Waiting for a Deadline to Begin…

Whether preparing taxes, preparing a report, or taking out the garbage, we might find ourselves waiting “until it’s really important.”

Why do something that’s not important now? It’ll be important later.

The logic seems fairly solid. The trouble is most things are not about straight logic.

What we are truly doing is waiting for the emotion of urgency to overwhelm our “I don’t wanna feelings”. We are helpless to act in either state and have instead opted to leverage one against the other.

The co...