Just sink your teeth into something!

All of us -- this said to assure myself I'm OK -- tend to procrastinate something, a few things, or everything. I am admitting that this is one of my faults. I even dedicated a college research paper on the topic of procrastination. Writing the paper, of course, took some procrastination on my part.

All of us -- this said to assure myself I'm OK -- tend to procrastinate something, a few things, or everything. I am admitting that this is one of my faults. I even dedicated a college research paper on the topic of procrastination. Writing the paper, of course, took some procrastination on my part.

Some of us procrastinators do grow up though. I must say I'm not as bad as I used to be, although I still don't get everything I want done. As I mature, I realize that big factor in this bad habit is my tendency to overthink. Call it analysis paralysis.

My head brims with so many ideas so often, and I've lost track of how many of them I did not even bother to at least jot down for later actualization. Surely I'm not unique in claiming to having a whole marketplace of concepts but that is exactly the problem. I have become one of many people who has not reached for their dreams precisely because they have not been chasing. Some of us are happy with the diversion, and that is fine too. I just know that for me, my hunger for self-realization has not been satiated.

So this website. I have done starts and spurts of blogs previously (Raw American: http://rawamerican.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=2 and the early version of The Living Feed: http://thelivingfeed.com/). This project counts back to years in the making; most of that time is best represented by a field in my psyche that has lain fallow.

Tonight I was once again dabbling on the website that I have been thinking of launching since last year. A whole year has gone by! At 11pm, I decided it was time to take a shower and get ready for bed. I have a newborn after all, and she would be waking in just another couple hours. Now this is definitely a legitimate excuse, not one used for convenience. However, how many of these excuses will keep coming?

I've decided that despite not knowing yet exactly where this would take me, I should just get started. Al.rea.dy.

I would like to write about the many various things that interest me: motherhood (since I'm a brand-new mommy), art, DIY projects, the green movement/sustainability, and design. I think these things I love will manifest as either thoughts from my head, actual projects I have done or am working on, and ideas that I have in their infancy.

Really this site will be primarily my personal diary, a dynamic capsule of information that can be enjoyed in posterity. By myself. And hopefully it turns out into something good enough for others as well.

I came up with the name 'The Living Feed' because I think that whatever I write about - it will be on point. The site will be a feed that keeps moving, it is "living." It will offer a snapshot of my life at that point in time. It will be about my thoughts in deeds in all their perfect and imperfect glory.

And going back to having reaching for my dreams: if at the end of this, I conclude I'm content all the while not achieving any of the goals I set out in the first place, I shall remind myself that as long as I am genuinely content then I would have made one of the biggest achievements in life.

Tags: procrastination, self-realization