Is Volunteerism My Way of Procrastinating?

My life (i.e., health) has taken a turn where I do not feel I can or should volunteer or otherwise extend my time and energy. Having said that, it doesn’t stop me from wanting to, and I have to rein myself in and bite my tongue before I offer up my resources.

This is a very difficult place for me to be! I have done this my whole life and it goes against everything I am to not try to help in any way I can!

This morning, I was pondering my inherent need to put myself out there, but then I was looking at my own needs and to-do list, and had this thought: have I been using volunteerism as an excuse to not handle my own business? Today’s list is almost a page long, and yet I’m trying to set it aside in order to help others. Yes, it will still be there tomorrow when I come back to it, but perhaps that act is my very point – my very definition of procrastinating is putting off until tomorrow what I should be doing today. This is both enlightening and disturbing to me, so I’m out to sip more coffee, handle a few things on my to-do list, and ponder the next steps I take in my day.

I hope yours is great – be productive, and as my little five-year-old gambaby says, “Don’t bite anybody!”