Hi! My name is D and I am a Procrastinator. It has been 11 months since my last blogpost. Now if I were in AA and I was talking about my last cocktail - this would be a good thing. But I am trying to maintain a travel blog and an 11 month absence is not a good thing. It’s an overwhelming thing. A thing I am trying to change by writing this very post. This morning I was inspired by the Wait but Why blog and this post on Procrastination. I think it’s brilliant, mostly because it is so funny, and it completely de-mystifies a behavior that is so familiar to me. It also happens to accomplish a procrastinators objective - distraction from the task at hand. When I finished reading, I noticed the odd affect of feeling motivated to accomplish something! So this is my attempt to catch up on 11 months of travel - a photographic preview of blogposts to come…
ISTANBUL
MAURITIUS
JOHANNESBERG + CAPETOWN
SOUTH AFRICAN WINE COUNTRY
DUBAI
NEW YORK
CLEVELAND
AUSTIN
HONG KONG
VIETNAM
BANGKOK
TORONTO
ANTIGUA
ST. BARTHS
GREECE
EGYPT
SPAIN
MOROCCO
It is crazy to see the diversity and to realize that I now have more than 24 destinations across 13 countries to write about. I am excited to report that besides the inspiration from Wait But Why i have taken it a step further and hired a Life Coach. I am confident that with her help, I can actually do this. Catch up. I have learned that “Procrastinator” is just a name that excuses the behavior of not getting things done. So I will remove that word from my vocabulary, and from the list of names I call myself. I only hope that changing the behavior is as easy as removing the word. One of the antonyms of procrastinate is accelerate, which sounds much more my speed - go go go! So I’m going to harness that energy instead.
Can’t wait to explore the rest of 2015!
i thought i did!
So much for all of that self-contemplation! Fast forward to today, July 2018!
Three+ years since I was so motivated that I managed to publish 0 of the 24 intended blog posts. And if you’re wondering, yes I did hire the life coach, who was amazing, but ultimately it is me, and my crazy life, that gets in the way. So with a renewed sense of purpose, I will attempt to first capture our most recent travels in 2018, and then go back in time and re-visit some other excellent adventures.