MadreVida

with Ana Flores

  • Madre
  • Vida
  • Alma
  • Viajera

Procrastination vs Creation

May 29, 2014 Leave a Comment

Cherry blossoms and street art at the Highline

© Ana L. Flores Beautiful cherry blossoms and street art view from the Manhattan Highline

The honest truth is that I’m here writing this right now just because I’m freaking out about the project I should really be working on at 10:30pm at night.

You know you do it too. You have a massive deadline. A huge announcement. A “thing,” that ridiculously important “thing” to “do” and you give yourself time to do it and the more time you have, the less you do.

But then the days get closer and closer and you can’t afford to just think about the thing because the thing needs to come to life! And so it happens that the thing starts speaking to you from its own creative creation space. It wants to come out. It’s ready to come out if only you’d give it a bit of your time and focus the light on IT.

The creative process is an un peeling of the barriers, fears and objections we imagine to keep our “things” locked in the dark. The analogy of giving birth to an idea is so perfect because everything we create comes from a place of darkness, of incubation, until we’re ready for it to see the light. But the whole moment we’ve been seemingly procrastinating we (the idea/thing and us) just been internally giving it form, shape, meaning, a heartbeat, a personality, a DNA and brain that forms from a mere thought that we were so lucky to grab and impregnate.

Or maybe it is just procrastination and this is a beautiful way for me to justify all the time I’ve lost. Or maybe it’s just a mere validation of Parkinson’s Law, that adage that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” The time for its completion is now.

My mami was right: “No dejes para mañana lo que puedas hacer hoy.”

Ya me voy. Thing coming soon!

 

No related posts.

Filed Under: Alma

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

About Ana Flores

Bilingual and bicultural Latina who will always live con un pié aquí y otro allá.
Mamá, author, spokesperson and entrepreneur ... y como buena Taurina, amante de la buena vida.

Founder: Latina Bloggers Connect + SpanglishBaby

More about me.

Want to chat? Encuéntrame aquí.

I also get inspired at:
Babble
latinamom.me

La Vida Social

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Reading la Vida

  • Why Don’t You Just Leave
  • Kerry Washington Unveils The Allstate Foundation #PurplePurse and I Was There!
  • Why I Said Sí to Allstate Foundation Purple Purse
  • The Children of Malawi
  • Malawi with the ONE Campaign and Heifer International

“SpanglishLife” — My Flipboard Mag

View my Flipboard Magazine.

Pinning la Vida

     NYT Cooking: On the hottest summer days, this is the dish to make because it requires zero cooking. A quick marinade of lemon juice, seaweed and fresh vegetables sets up a flavorful, no-fuss ceviche that tastes like the sea despite having no seafood in it. Store-bought minced or “riced” cauliflower won’t work for this dish. You have to start by grating or mincing a fresh whole head of cauliflower — that ext...

Tweet-eando la Vida

  • Wey, verdaderamente yo hoy me bajaría de este barco a chingarme unos taquitos de cochinita. January 29, 2023 12:14 am
  • Pinche Enero ya duró como 84 días, no? January 28, 2023 11:57 pm
  • Want to Tweet la Vida with me? Follow @laflowers
Latina Bloggers Connect

Hablando por la Vida

I'm Going to BlogHer '14!

I'm Speaking At The Mom 2.0 Summit
Border Kids Relief Project
Follow on Bloglovin
Disclosure + Privacy Policy
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2023 · MadreVida · Log in · All rights reserved. You may not take any original images or content from this site without written permission.