Overcoming Procrastination For Moms

September 21, 2007

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I wrote a post on my business blog about procrastination and work at home Moms. September 6th was Fight Procrastination Day, dedicated to helping the 25% plus Americans who suffer with chronic procrastinating.

As I said over there, procrastinating often makes tasks more difficult and costs us time. If you wait an extra couple of days to vacuum, it doesn’t really take you any longer once you do it. If you let dirty pots sit in the sink getting crusty and gross, it takes you longer to clean them.

Procrastination costs us money. For example, putting off taking the library books back means late fees. I deal with this by always taking my stuff back well before it’s due. I go to the library once a week and everything goes back even if it’s not due yet. I have a large cloth bag that is the “library bag” and when we read a library book it goes right back into the bag so they’re (usually!) all together when I make the trip.

Procrastinating about balancing your checkbook can mean bounced checks. I’ve bounced a few checks in my lifetime because I didn’t bring down my checkbook balance immediately after spending money. Sometimes it’s hard to do when you’re at the grocery store with 4 kids in tow who are tired of shopping. So I make it a daily habit to do this every night before I go to bed. It takes less than one minute but saves me money.

I’ve decided to come clean about one thing I procrastinate on.

My bathroom floors. I put off cleaning the bathroom floor far too long. It’s the only household chore I consistently don’t do in a timely manner. The sink, mirror, toilet, etc get cleaned every day (this is a necessity when you have boys, and if you forget to do it your nose will remind you!), I don’t know why I’m so bad about the floors but I am!

So I’ve decided to make Tuesdays my bathroom floor day. On Tackle it Tuesday I’ll be sweeping and mopping the bathroom floor. Hold me to it ok? :-)

So what do you procrastinate about? Do you have any systems that keep you accountable? Share them :-)

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3 Responses to “Overcoming Procrastination For Moms”

  1. Wendy on September 22nd, 2007 4:07 am

    Thanks for the tip about library books, that sounds a lot better than just trying to keep them in the same place. I’ll have to try it!
    I have a terrible procrastination about the bathroom and the kitchen floors, because they’re the only ones that need mopping. I don’t know why, I just hate to mop! Guess I’ll have to work on that one. :)

  2. Aurelia Williams on September 23rd, 2007 3:02 pm

    I have to admiit that I am so with you on the bathoom floor. With a 7yo boy that has poor AIM – I really need to be more diligent about cleaning it and teaching him how to clean it as well.

    I now keep some fantastic and some of those clorox wipes in the bathroom as a reminder for me to be more diligent about it,

    Thanks

  3. Tackle It Tuesday - Bathroom Floor and Money Market Account | Natural Moms Talk Radio on September 25th, 2007 4:10 pm

    [...] Well I promised that I would stop procrastinating and commit to doing my bathroom floors every Tuesday. And I did [...]

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