I shared this post in my Instagram story today, and I felt the need to write about it here because I feel it on a spiritual level:

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Get ready for the sequel: I Still Haven't Done That Thing 😩

A post shared by Hello Sunshine (@hellosunshine) on Mar 4, 2020 at 12:30pm PST

This happened to me this week at work. Monday afternoon, I wrote on my weekly to-do pad to email someone. I didn’t email her until this morning, only because I also had to email someone else and figured, hey, I might as well write all of my emails now. It literally took me a minute to write the email and send it, but it took me like two days to actually do it.

I don’t procrastinate about big things, like scheduling a yearly doctor’s appointment (and yes, I consider that a big/important thing), but ask me to email someone or do a small task? It’ll float day by day down my weekly planner until I finally do it Friday morning because I’m tired of having to re-write it.

And it doesn’t even have to do with the fact I’m communicating with other people. It’s that I’d rather focus all of my energy on a big project than worry about the little things. But once those little things pile up, it becomes a big thing and then I’m forced to deal with it.

I’ve read the whole “if you can do it in five minutes, just do it now” thing but sometimes I’d rather use those five minutes on something else, like making gifs of the university’s mascot, which I’ve been doing all week. I should have made this one of my resolutions for 2020—just do the little things now! You’ll feel better! And it’s something you can check off your to-do list!

Are you bad about the little things like I am? Or are you a fully functioning adult? Can you share any of your super powers with me so my little things don’t pile up?