Wanting > Shoulding

I've been challenged to live with some new language.

As a world-class procrastinator I 'should' all over myself all day, every day. "I should clean the bathroom", "I should tidy the kids' room... make the beds, repack their drawers... you know, I should make it nice.", "I really should be reading every day.". Or, alternatively, "I need to work out where the social security office is so I can get my card tomorrow morning.", "I need to get my office sorted before I can sit down properly.".

By changing need and should to want, it puts everything in a different light.

I want to write today. Actually, I want to write everyday, and this makes it liberating, instead of crushing. There is no guilt in leaving the bathroom a little grimey, the kids clothes a little spewed, or a pile of papers either side of my laptop. I will find out where the Social is later... but first I'll write.

Oh, wait. I just did.