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| Photo Credit: Elana Kilkenny Taken At: ABC Carpet & Home |
Life has taught me this in spades...you know that inertia-inducing, opportunity-missing, confidence-betraying cocktail of perfectionism and procrastination.
Come
to think of it, those two "p" patterns are probably fraternal twins,
they might look different but the connection between perfectionism and
procrastination runs deep.
So
off I go to put some whole-hearted time into writing my book (dream
since childhood) and working on my new website (halle-f***ing-lujah),
which has stirred up a veritable perfect-storm cocktail of the evil "p"
twins. Lest I use spending more time perfecting this newsletter as a
tricky way to think I'm being productive, while I'm actually avoiding
doing something that is very important to me but more thorn-laden with
doubt and fear than writing this is.
Having
said all of that, as I'm writing this, I was just inspired to ask the
universe if there was something more I should add to this subject for
you, and I had to smile at the uncanny synchronicity of receiving this
particular message:
So
let's riff on this jewel from Danielle LaPorte for a moment. Sometimes
we judge ourselves and think we are procrastinating when in reality we
are being asked by our intuition to not move forward for some reason on
that project, deadline, email, task, etc. Because sometimes, we are
being asked to change course, to dream it a little more before we
produce, or to wait for intuitive timing to dictate to us rather than
our fear-based "pushing" timing would tell us to birth.
How do you know the difference? Ask it. Meditate on the question "Is this procrastination or intuition?"
See what your own innate wisdom says. You might receive some guidance
via a little voice in your head that's of a different frequency from
your thoughts, you might receive a message from the outside world that's
uncanny in its answer, you might just listen to what your body tells
you (your body never lies), or you might just pick up that book or card
deck you use as a tarot and see what answer comes to you (like I did
just now).
And then listen...and do what you hear to do (or not to do).
So
if you decide today or even right now when you're reading this, to "do
it now" (you know that "it" that's been calling your name), I would
love to know.
And
if you decide that you really aren't procrastinating, but rather your
"delaying" is actually your intuition trying to tell you something and
that you need to shift your perception and let that
procrastination-albatross kind of thinking go, I would also love to you
know.
What a lovely thing it would be for us to support one another in our leaps of faith...
Much love and gratitude,
Elana
