Pleasure Notes

So I know you all have lives, very active, busy lives, and you probably haven’t noticed that I’ve been a little M.I.A. but boy, I’ve noticed. It’s been driving me crazy. Of course, it hasn’t been driving me crazy enough to DO anything about it. That’s kinda the story of my life at the moment. I have some unbelievable, KICK-ASS intentions. But actions…

Actions and I are having a little falling out at the moment – lots of miscommunication, the silent treatment, ineffective communication, etc. In fact, I’m feeling very abandoned, if you wanna know the truth. Actions seem to have deserted me entirely. So rude.

Every day, I set out with grand plans. But then I hit the snooze button. At least five times.

And that pattern is repeated throughout the day. Metaphorically speaking. I DO get out of bed, of course. The distraction and procrastination provided by the proverbial snooze button, however, is incredibly effective. It comes in numerous packages and flavors, but the result is the same. Time is “stopped.” Action is delayed.

Which means my laptop never gets turned on, I don’t write that great post that’s been peaking out from various dark passageways of my mind, I don’t visit my lovely friends at the long list of glorious blogs cluttering my RSS feed, my eyes bounce over my Twitter feed. Stories remain untold. Designs remain uncreated. Business plans remain undeveloped.

The only way to defeat the snooze button is to ignore lethargy and to relinquish comfort.

The only way to step into action is to force engagement.

So I’m forcing engagement. My brain is as foggy as it always is when the alarm goes off in the morning. Except that it’s not the morning. But I’m getting up anyway… after I hit snooze just one more time.

How are you and your snooze button doing? Have you turned it off yet today?