Why I keep procrastinating my creative work

For years I’ve had ideas that my brain is begging me to do. I keep procrastinating by being tired, playing casual games, watching tv, and consuming other people’s creative work.

I’ve known that resistance is a factor, but it’s becoming more clear that the resistance may take longer portions of the creative process than I would like. As in years.

I’m not looking forward to it. I want to skip the hard part and go straight to the awesome. Or I just want to give up altogether.

But man, if I had just kept up with any of the ideas I’ve had in the past several years, I’d already have gotten some of that resistance out of the way.

Better late than never, as the saying goes. And here are encouraging words from Ira Glass on the matter: