Procrastination

At the moment I am trying to convince myself that I have work to do and that I should really get my assignment finished and out of the way so that I can do a lot of other, more productive things. But the thing is it is not due for another 3 weeks and I have the next 2 weeks off prac so that gives me LOTs of time to write it. To make matters worse it is a real pain of an assignment. Seriously, I have to go through each of the 'competencies' I am assessed on at my placements and write how I have demonstrated competency in each of these competencies for the areas of: Language, Speech, Swallowing, Voice and Fluency for both Adults and Children. Believe me when I say that it is horrible assignment.

For that reason I spend lots of time doing all sorts of other things. Some of that I can think of are:

• Watch all sorts of unnecessary videos on youtube, and then look at the related videos and watch some more.
• Making myself cups of tea, and drinking it too (of course)
• Spend time on Facebook looking at photos and talking to others.
• Looking at links people post (or like) on Facebook and then looking at other links
• Finalising a photo book as a present for a friend
• Making more tea
• Reading other peoples extremely waffly blog posts about car problems 
• Listening to music
• Sleeping in
• Fiddling around with what ever
• Eating food
• Making tea
• forgetting that I was making tea and then going back to making it again.
• Writing emails
• Drinking tea
• Talking. I do a lot of that actually, just talking. About anything that I can think of. We almost anything. And then when I start talking I don't normally stop in a hurry.
• Looking at SLR cameras online
• Buying more music and listening to it
• Many more things that I can't think of right now 
• And (as you can probably see) writing my own blog post.

Really, if you think about it I would probably be the queen of procrastination, or maybe at least one of the princesses. The problem is I know that I can do so many more exciting and wonderful things such as painting, drawing (although I left my sketch pad at work), playing my guitar, filling out my application for volunteering next year, planning my trip after volunteering next year, soaking up some of God's wonderful creation by going for a bush walk and lots of other things. I plan to do all of these after finishing my assignment. Only I have to stop procrastinating first.

We are called to live a life of glory and honour to God. "Whether you eat or drink, do it all to the glory of God." (I Cor 10:31). If I spend time procrastinating and avoiding my assignment I am guilty of not honouring God in what I'm doing. There are some days packed full of lots of different things, days where I am busy doing all different things, all things that have a purpose and in that purpose I am glorifying God. 

Now to get back to that assignment...... ...