This is a long-standing habit, and I believe it may be genetic. I come from a family of procrastinators, and if I had children, I'm sure I would be raising little procrastinators, too.
I once spoke to a class of middle-school-aged gifted students about procrastination, because the truth is, when you're a highly capable person, you really can get away with it -- a lot. "Look, guys, I understand leaving things until the last minute. It just can't LOOK like it was left until the last minute."The "last-minute" and I are on rather intimate terms. He attends our birthday parties, I send him cards on Christmas (well, usually around the first of the year...or perhaps March).
I bring this up because I have not posted a single thing since November.
Oh, I've had thousands of ideas. My kids are doing amazing things in class -- building robots, creating Leprechaun Traps, even launching "Genius Hour,"....but somehow, I just could not gather the gumption to sit down and write about them.
I could make excuses, and some of them may even be legit. But the honest truth is I did not set a deadline, I did not have anybody to hold me accountable, and even though this blog is a personal Wildly Important Goal -- without accountability, it's a goal that just didn't happen.So today, I am setting a deadline: Every Saturday, I will post some fun, creative or interesting ideas for teachers. There. It's official -- I can't back out now.
I may be writing late Friday night (or even in the wee hours of Saturday morning), but it will be on time, every time. On my honor as a procrastinator.
