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If you feel like you keep procrastinating, or that you’re “undisciplined” this one is for you. 

Maybe you’re neither procrastinating or undisciplined. Maybe your deeper inner wisdom knows something your overwhelmed mind does not: That NOW is NOT the right time. 

True Procrastination vs. Intuitive Knowing That Now Ain’t It

As someone who used to consider myself a procrastinator I too would shame myself everytime I thought “ehhhh, not now” when putting off a task for another day, another time, or maybe just…never. 

I have a very different perspective on procrastination now and how I define it. 

True Procrastination: You’ve got the means, the energy/nervous system capacity, and the know-how to get the task done but your inner 3 year old is saying “I don’t wanna”. 

Think taking the dog to the vet, cleaning out the fridge, folding the clean towels, scheduling a dental appointment, and other “adulting” tasks that we’re making mountains out of molehills because they aren’t fun and dopamine inducing. 

Intuitive Knowing: You want to do The Thing. In fact, you know you’re going to do The Thing. But your body just isn’t moving forward towards it. 

More often than not, if you were to look deeper into it you would discover you are typically lacking the means, the energy/nervous system capacity, and/or the know-how to bring The Thing to fruition. 

Sometimes you do have all three, but you’re still just holding steady; if someone were to ask you why you weren’t “going for it”, you wouldn’t necessarily know how to respond with any logical reasoning.

Timing is Everything. 

The selling of my first house and then my move to Colorado several years later are both great examples of intuitive knowing that looked like procrastination to others. 

My sister told me “I thought you should have sold it years ago” when I finally listed my house. 

Except a few years ago the house hadn’t recovered its value from the market hoopla of 2008 that deeply impacted the Metro-Detroit area. Oh, and I didnt know what city I wanted to move to. I didn’t have the means or the know-how. Until I did. And then I sold it. 

Moving out of state was a multi-year waiting game. I wasn’t sure where I wanted to go exactly, checking out Scottsdale, AZ about two years before deciding on Colorado. “You’ve been saying you want to move out of state for years” my work bestie Linds told me on more than one occasion. 

However, while I knew my tenure as a Michigander was coming to an end, I would flit back and forth between not having the means (a non-remote job), the energy (burnout recovery plus spiritual awakening and ascension saw me physically and emotionally exhausted), or the know-how (where did I want to live? Uh, somewhere west of here. I think?)

And when I finally had the means, the energy and the knowledge at the same time? I simply picked up my phone, texted my friend who’d been living in Colorado for several years and let her know I would be joining her in a few months. 

In both cases my “procrastination” paid off. 

My house recouped most of its value and a friend of mine was moving in with her fiancé allowing me to rent her condo for a few months so I didn’t have to deal with selling a house and buying a new one at the same time. 

My move to Colorado? Ridiculously smooth.

From listing my house with a friend of my sister’s to my aunt offering to drive the Uhaul for me, to my boss asking me if I’d hired movers to pack and unpack the Uhaul which I had no idea you could do and was well worth the cost, I barely had to think of something that needed to happen before someone offered up a solution than was better than anything my mind could think of. 

“Do It Scared” Isn’t Always the Flex We Think It Is. 

I’ve been making my way through Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith and in her section on the throat chakra she so perfectly encapsulates what I’ve learned (and what Human Design also espouses), namely: “We push our timing out of sync because of financial pressure, emotional insecurity, fear, hunger for power, and the excessive rule of the mind as it orders our bodies with its barrage of ‘shoulds’”. 

When I look back on when I just “went for it”, it didn’t typically turn out well (or at all). And while I can see where some of this was me not following my Human Design, at the base level it was because I ignored not having the means/energy/know-how under the guise of “seizing the day”.

Not only did I end up not only not getting what I wanted most of those times, but I took some big self-confidence hits as well.

You CAN Trust Your Inner Knowing

As the saying goes “stop ‘shoulding’ all over yourself”. 

Life is meant to be lived at your own pace, not what others think is appropriate. While we might “miss 100% of the shots we don’t take*”, that doesn’t mean we should be shooting our shot every time we get a new idea. (*And as Wayne Gretzky knows, timing is a huge component of when to take a shot vs pass the puck.) 

Let your body be your guide; it was programmed with your soul’s specific blueprint and GPS before you arrived here and it will never steer you wrong (but your sister/friend/mom/Aunt Vera/Tony Robbins might). 

Hugs, 

Elena