It's common, not just for me but for many others as well, while listening to a sermon, to get the sense that the pastor is talking directly to me about my situation and one remark he made not long ago was
"Don't sit under a tree waiting
for God to give you a sign.
He's already given you enough
to do for ten lifetimes."
One of my biggest character flaws has always been a serious contention with procrastination and I'm not just talking about the simple "I'll do it later" kind. I mean the "I'll do it someday when the time is right" variety. Years of experience has taught me the "right time" is a mythical location like Middle Earth, Atlantis or the Bermuda Triangle. The procrastination with which I've suffered for years has been the debilitating, life altering kind because I am at this latter stage of life no better off than when I graduated high school. It's is a serious character flaw.
I've commonly resorted to the "God will show me what to do when the time comes" theory but that's a lie because he actually showed me what I was meant to do decades ago. Now I've got a sizable backlog of projects.
It's all in my head!
A subject for another post related to this is the philosophy of Cus D'Amato who told the many boxers he trained to success, that boxing is mostly mental; less physical. Procrastination or productivity is also a mindset.
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