One of the ways the authors of the book suggest for exercising your integrity muscle is to early in each day, do at least two things you don’t want to do before you do things you DO want to do. They frame such activity as practicing doing things that are hard. What a great idea.

We are on vacation this week, and I think I may work on this concept a bit within myself. It’s been awhile since I’ve really had to be super-disciplined about something. Perhaps my own dismay when I closely, honestly examine my personal integrity has to do with laziness the realm of doing what is hard. So, I think I’ll work on turing dismay into encouragement this week. I’ll let you know how it goes.

In fact, part of our mission is essentially to help you deal with your life’s frustrations more effectively! So, please forgive us, and give us another chance. We will continue to be imperfect in keeping everything totally fresh ALL the time. However, we will be considerably better, and this site will be more interesting, more informative, and maybe even more fun.For now, the message of the day is: “take a step.” That’s what this is – simply a step.  But, it feels pretty good to take it, even if it is a small one!

I can’t tell you how long “update the MPC website” has been on my list of things to do. Well, for probably about 4 years! Why have I procrastinated? Below I have outlined my reasons, and summarized the errors in bold I made which contributed to my procrastination.

1. Over-estimation of Ability: I thought I was better at DreamWeaver than I was, and the longer I waited, the less I remembered, and the more overwhelming the project became.
2. Emotional Attachment: A good friend (Jim Schachterle) designed our old site, and it looked great. I didn’t want to disappoint him. He even got some books for me on Dreamweaver to help!
3. Lack of Confidence: Sometimes when I got down the path of at least exploring other options (if I couldn’t figure out Dreamweaver adequately), I’d think, “well, what would we put up there anyway?” Honestly, I still have that thought, but we sure as heck aren’t going to come up with any interesting/new/helpful thoughts for clients and potential clients if we don’t start somewhere!
4. Under-estimation of Time: This could also be worded as “over-estimation of efficiency.” In other words, I have a tendency to under-estimate how much time it is going to take me to take care of technically-related tasks.

There may be other reasons, but these are the ones that rise to the top for me. How about you? Are you procrastinating on something? Maybe it would help you too, to consider if you are encountering some of the mental barriers I was, or some of your own. In fact, if you come up with some others, I’d love to hear them.

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