First Gear
This right here. These words. This is what you could fairly call "procrastination." But I do know myself. I know that it often takes me 45 minutes to really get going – to grind through my ‘first gear’ – and once I hit flow-state… well, then its flow-state. But it often takes a bit of puttering around on something irrelevant – or in this case, adjacent – to my intended work before I can really capitalize on a functional creative space. I went looking for a good procrastination image and got owned by the internet. Before fatherhood I could make real hay this way. Come home from work, cook up some anti-hangry medication, and fill a glass with something cold. Then do just about anything but what I wanted to work on for a half hour or an hour and then switch gears into the real work… often the next thing I’d know I’d have only a half dozen hours until I had to be back at work, but I’d have a heap-load of work done. But these days, no. The dinners I cook need a little more atten...