48 hours ago:
Thank you to The Solitary Walker for the concept of swinging between procrastination and procrastination. Now that you mention it, I can either be postponing some challenging task or postponing something I thoroughly enjoy doing (-:
I think often of the header on Sabine's blog that says, "Live all you can: It's a mistake not to."
Thank you to Sabine for offering a German equivalent for the word "procrastination." It's frühjahrsmüdigkeit, which literally means "spring tiredness."
Given that spring can be my season of greatest procrastination, I relate to Sabine's equivalent and find myself wondering if I might think of spring as a season for celebrating procrastination, using my yearly diminished momentum as joyfully and creatively as possible with my limited energy.
My MacBook's Dashboard gives these words for "procrastination."
French -- temporisation (as in wasted time?)
Italian -- indugio (as in indulgence?)
Spanish -- dilación (as in dilly-dallying?)Dutch -- uitstel (as in uitsted time?)
And then there's:
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Yesterday morning I had been wondering if vitality might be the opposite of procrastination. When I am working on a blog post or reading blogs or out walking or practicing yoga or meeting at breakfast time with my eccentric friends most mornings of the week, I experience vitality -- even if in doing so I postpone other creative work and looking for paid employment. The truth is I don't really want a job at this time as I am enjoying life in a way I never have before. There is something to be said for that.
When I asked one of my eccentric friends what word came to her mind as the opposite of procrastination, she paused and then replied, "Progress."
Any other thoughts on a word for the opposite of procrastination?
