I’ve developed a terrible habit of procrastinating. Actually I’ve had it all my life, but it’s really starting to irritate me right about now.

I was doing fairly well about not procrastinating with my writing work at first. That lasted up until my family life got turned upside down several months ago. Hubby’s health problems, Pumpkin staying sick a lot, financial woes. If you’ve been a loyal reader for a long time, you know what I’m talking about. Those things adversely affected my concentration, causing me to have horrible writer’s block. And that led to a dread of doing the job I love.

Then just when things started looking up, more crap got piled on. We had our home basically jerked out from under us, and that really took the wind out of my sails. I could barely write a page or two a day, and that was on a good day. I also had to take a break when we finally started getting things straightened out again, to get all the red tape taken care of and then get moved and settled in. It has been a long, grueling road.

Now that things are beginning to resemble normal again, I’m having a hard time getting back in the swing of things. I need a good swift kick in the pants, because now that we have a house payment to make, I need to have a steady amount of money coming in each month. I’m not looking to turn my small business into a large corporation with financial reporting responsibilities, I just want to make a good living.

So I’m not taking this lying down. I am going to be trying out a self-help technique that I found, and I really hope it works. I ordered a DVD about it (which has a free trial period and a money-back guarantee), and I’m going to give it all I’ve got. And if that doesn’t work, I’m going to get a refund and keep trying until I find something that works. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.