Food for Thought~daily Meditations 06-10

[Pony]

Procrastination


This is a particularly dangerous habit for compulsive overeaters, since when we put off unpleasant or difficult tasks, we may revert to our old escape route-eating. the result is that the unpleasant situation is still with us, and we are less able to deal with it. The longer we procastinate, the larger the difficulty looms. Even small responsibilities left undone weaken our self-respect.

Often we procastinate because of fear that we are inadequate for the job to be donw. Sometimes we are simply rebelling against doing womething we do not want to do. If we are taking a daily inventory, we will examine our motives and use the subequent self-knowledge for constructive action.

Whatever it is that we are putting off, it will rarely become easier to do later. This is especially true if we are procrastinating about our abstinence! The time is now.


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Since today is all I have, may I use it wisely.

[Nina Kay]

Oh Pony,
Procrastination is my worst character defect & it affects every area of my life & then I get more down on myself & tend to bury all of this with food. This post is just so ME.
Thank you for posting this though. Seeing it written out & explained is an eye-opener. It is so extremely, more than I realized, connected with my eating disorder. I need to get to work on my personal inventory & see if I can get rid of this very reaching problem.