Weekly Word Art Newsletter - 15 Jan 2008

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Hi Everyone, and welcome to this edition of the Scraps of Mind Weekly Word Art Newsletter.

I’ve had a very ‘celebrating’ weekend over the last few days. A good friend of mine celebrated an important birthday (you know, one with a 0 at the end) and we enjoyed a scrumptious Greek banquet at one of her favourite restaurants. I made her a card from the freebie template on Scraps of Mind. And I’m kicking myself that I didn’t scan it so I could show it to you here.

And yesterday my sister celebrated her birthday and we had a terrific family barbeque at her house in the country. My brother-in-law got one of those uber-BBQs for Christmas, all stainless steel and black metal. And we had a fabulous time amongst the kangaroos.

So I’m feeling totally relaxed and refreshed going in to this week.

Life! Doncha just love it?

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Procrastination

Procrastination is one of my besetting sins. Over the years I have invented a squillion ways to avoid starting something I really don’t want to do…but should. I like to think that I’ve now developed it into an art form.

I find I can use procrastination as a tool to get so much done. Yes it’s true, procrastination can be a productivity tool!

Picture the scene

It’s Saturday and I have to write a document for work on Monday. I’m not really in the right mood for it (not sure what the right mood for writing a work document looks like) and I know it’s going to be a grind. So I won’t start on it straight away. I need some time to prepare myself, get myself in the zone. I know I’m procrastinating and I feel guilty, so I do a bunch of housework to ease the guilt. Usually I’ll pick a grotty job or one I’ve been putting off (that’s right… procrastinating). And before the afternoon is gone I’ll have managed to complete at least one daggy chore that would otherwise never have been done. Of course it’ll be too late to start on the work document because I’ll need to be fresh to work on that and now it’s too late in the afternoon. So I’ll wait until Sunday and then I’ll really get stuck into it…

You get the idea. So I used to think procrastination was a fault, but now I’ve decided to look at it as a Productivity Tool.

Now I’m going to take a look at my other faults and see if I can’t turn them into desirable traits by looking at them from another angle.

Well, maybe I’ll do that tomorrow, when I’m in the right mood…

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Scraps of Mind is looking for Guest Bloggers

Last week I put an invitation out on Scraps of Mind for Scrapbookers of any persuasion to become a Guest Blogger on Scraps of Mind. I have been contacted by a few people and I’m becoming quite excited by the project.

I thought it would be cool to inject a bit of variety into the Scraps of Mind writing style by having a regular Guest Post Spot once a month for readers to submit their own articles for everyone’s enjoyment.

If this sounds interesting to you, pop over to my post and read more about it.

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