I finally completed my free photobook and ordered it today! In the end, I decided to print photos of our last holiday to Santorini. I was going to mix it up and just put in a selection of my favourite photos but I like to have real photos of holidays so I committed and sent it off this evening. The company I ordered it through, Saal, is not cheap! It should have cost me £119.99 and I had to pay £19.99 because they sent me the voucher for £100.00. Crazy. I'm not sure I'd ever pay that much for a photo book unless it was for a wedding. It is a deluxe version so it will be interesting to see how it compares to the other photo books I have already and whether it's worth the extra cost. The deadline for ordering with my voucher was tomorrow! I have had it on my to do list for over a month and just managed to frantically finish it at the last minute. I realise this is not a good advertisement for someone who may want to hire me, but sometimes I procrastinate.
I even once bought a book called How to Stop Procrastinating and it took me six months before I started reading it. I have discovered about myself that I tend to procrastinate on things that I don't enjoy doing, or things that are really important to me. I totally understand the ones I don’t enjoy but it doesn't make a lot of sense to procrastinate on the things that are really important to me. I think it's because I want to do them well and perfectly and because I'm not sure I will be able to do that, I put off starting which obviously means I don't end up doing them as well as I could have if I had started in plenty of time.
Sometimes I need to create false deadlines in my brain so I can finish things on time. I think I need to start doing this for my job search as well. I have a lot of stuff I'm exploring and reading but because there's no actual deadlines on when I need to accomplish things, I find some of the important stuff gets bumped backwards and instead I waste time endlessly scrolling through jobs that I'll never apply for because they are so far out of my skill set or mind-blowingly boring.
This week will be a lighter week for me on the job search as I'm going camping tomorrow for 3 nights. I have procrastinated on packing for that as well and now I have to get up early to make sure everything is packed and ready. I really don't like camping. I want to like it but I just don't. England is not a great country to camp in as it inevitably rains and it's really cold at night even in the summer. We are going with friends though so that will make it all worthwhile (I say hopefully). The forecast is constant rain so it will be memorable if nothing else.
I'm taking my books with me though and perhaps I'll have a career breakthrough while I'm slogging through a wet field to the toilet. Inspiration can strike at any time so procrastination or not, I'm still hopeful that I'll figure out what to do next sooner rather than later.
My quote for today: You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today - Abraham Lincoln
Today's photo is of me realising how much stuff I still need to do before we leave for camping!
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