Getting Stuff Done...Or Not. Dealing with My Resistance

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

I’ve probably made reference to this before on my blog:

When I get a job done that I have put off, I wonder why I put it off in the first place?

What was I thinking? With the job done I find myself sitting in the satisfaction of having completed something. If I have done it well, there is added icing on the cake. There is also not the added weight of jobs looming over me - and inevitably that weight increasing as more jobs are put off.

I say all of this on the back of the last few days, Saturday through to yesterday. They were long days, one not ending until after sunset. I laid a lot of mulch, weeded, washed windows and installed a new WiFi system (along with the subsequent reconnecting devices around the house that such an upgrade required). My body is hurting now. It is tired. I clocked up way more steps than I do on average. But I sit back with the satisfaction of jobs well done.

Lessons Learnt?

I’m now trying to catch myself in that moment of, “Oh, I’ll do it later," or “It can wait, no rush." There sure is no rush…until there is, along with all the other “no rush” jobs that have been queued up.

I’m trying to lean into the resistance of ‘to do’, using it as a leverage point for moving ahead with a job, with the understanding that once it is done it is done, and the reminder of that satisfaction that I have got from looking back and seeing the jobs finished.

As a final thought, I am realizing that a couple of things stop me from getting something done.