These days, many people in therapy are talking about procrastination.
Without procrastination, I’ll tell you why: People feel guilt and shame about not getting more done during the coronavirus pandemic when “I had so much more time on my hands!”
I wish people would stop procrastinating letting go of guilt and shame about procrastination. Procrastination is NOT a sin. Procrastination occurs when you
- have to do something you dislike doing,
- are focusing on the prospect of failure,
- don’t have the information or resources you need to complete the task, and/or
- are not at your best and think you would do a better job if you waited until you felt better.
When you consider that, it’s amazing any of us are getting ANYTHING done.
I’m now procrastinating sharing something I just realized. I not only procrastinate, I also do the opposite of procrastination, which I’m calling concrastination.
What is concrastination? It’s the need to do something immediately, without putting it off to a better time. I concrastinate the following:
- responding to emails, texts, and phone calls,
- meeting people’s expressed needs,
- trying to solve perceived problems,
- exploring new ideas,
- expressing my feelings, and
- creating blog posts after I wake up, even if it’s in the middle of the night.
Do you see procrastination or concrastination in any of today’s images?

































Here is PROCRASTINATION – The Musical by AVbyte:
I’m concrastinating asking for comments, below, and expressing thanks to all who help me create these daily blogs, including YOU!

I’ll get right to saying have a great Monday, Ann.
I’ll get right to saying thank you, Mark!
I’ll read this sometime later!
So did I!
It does get a bad rap!
Thanks for commenting so quickly, Val!
Sometimes, I do what I don’t feel like doing just to get it out of the way; It depends : have a nice day, Ann
Thanks for making this nice comment exactly when you did.
Everything is in the timing
As soon as I started reading your thoughts about procrastination I dropped everything and went to the OED to see if “concrastination” was there. It’s not but it should be. What I did, find, though, is that it comes from the Latin for “tomorrow”, and that there’s a rare English word, “crastin”, that means “the day after tomorrow”.
All this reminds me of an old SNL sketch my friends and I loved. It was a commercial for Einstein Express, for when a delivery absolutely positively has to be there the day before yesterday.
Thanks for delivering this comment yesterday, Chris.
the flowering trees and the dogs enjoying a playdate are what make me happy that I concrastinated and read your post without further delay!
This makes me happy now !
I couldn’t possibly procrastinate in telling you how much I love today’s images. They gave me a smile!
You give me timely smiles all the time, Debra.
At first, I misread that sign on the church as “How can God help us to use our painful experiences for blogging?”
I am glad you are reading books again! Books and signs
I am unhesitatingly grateful that you read my blog, Maureen.
Won’t wait an extra minute to tell you how much I enjoyed today’s post, Ann. The images of those big homes bring back delightful memories of New England…💕
Thanks for another delightful comment, Lori !
Procrastination isn’t as negative as once though and you hace certainly demystified it.
Thanks for this positive comment, Maria.