Author David Nicholls revealed that he spent two
years writing his new book using an anti-procrastination app. Is
procrastination a bigger problem than ever? Often it's so innocent. It might
even be relevant initially. A quick Wikipedia fact-check, perhaps. But before
long you've been sucked into the wormhole. Link after link, page after page.
When you finally snap out of it you've lost a precious hour and you're reading
about the intricacies of 16th Century Prussian politics. If this sounds
familiar, you're not alone. "We're really entering the golden age of
procrastination," says Dr Piers Steel, who has conducted surveys and
written The Procrastination Equation.
"One in four [people] would describe themselves as a chronic
procrastinator, [while] over half the population would describe themselves as
frequent," he says. Procrastination is more than merely delaying a task -
it's doing so despite expecting to be worse off” . "In the last 40 years
there's been about a 300-400% growth in chronic procrastination," which is
when it becomes particularly self-defeating, Steel explains. BBC; Oct.10
It is
interesting and appropriate that this news should come to us under a Mercury
retrograde cycle and more specifically
in Libra – a sign linked to
indecisiveness and procrastination. Erin
Sullivan in her book “Retrograde Planets” writes:
Awareness is defined as a state in which the self
is undifferentiated from the environment
essentially a divine state of
unconsciousness. Attention is defined as acute separation resulting in definitive focusing on details
that gives rise to conscious participation in and relationship with the
environment.
I perceive the Mercury direct phase as the “cycle
of attention” and the Mercury retrograde phase as the “cycle of awareness”.
Normally we think that the conscious mind should always be in control but the
retrogression cycle teaches us otherwise. In particular when Mercury is
retrograde, then something important is calling for awareness. Mercury acts as
an agent for recollection and for the curing of the soul through illumination.
This is what
is reported in the news as “procrastination”. On October 10, the date of the
news, Mercury [28li] is conjunct the star Izar, epsilon Bootes [28li19]. Nick
Fiorenza explains the lesson that this star teaches us which also appears to be
the answer to self-defeating chronic procrastination.
Here we may find unique events occurring in space
and time, and intimate encounters, portals that can change our evolutionary
experience if we are willing to make a leap of faith. Opportunities presented
here allows us to walk away from the mundane, from what is established in our
lives, from what seems to make sense to onlookers. They require a leap into
the void with the knowing there are subtle but greater soul-level currents
that can carry us to our greater fulfillment.
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