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I leave things till the last minute and am often late

A Relationship problem:

M P writes:

Dear Darel

I have a varied life. My problem is that I get too obsessed with doing the thing I am doing now and forget to plan for the other parts. I don't always return calls, I tend to leave things till the last minute and I am often ten minutes late. I know I need to plan more and to think about what I want to do, but find this activity very difficult. Whenever asked to think about the future my mind just goes blank.

Thanks

The Being Solution:

M P, Thanks for your question.

What you have is a relationship problem--a problem in how you choose to relate to yourself.

When I read your problem, it sounded like you were describing me. I have a one track mind, as well. I do what I love and therefore love what I'm doing. So when I'm in a creative mode, I'm usually focused on the end result desired and don't want to stop until the project is completed.

The difference is that I've made it okay for me to BE that way, and I'm not looking to make a BEING SHIFT to solve a problem that's not really a problem for me.

And like you, I don't do much planning either because, once I focus on the end result I want, the plan just sort of comes together for me. I know the plan isn't what makes it work; it's the being choice I've just made that created the need for some sort of plan.

My wife use to hate it when I'd come home on a Thursday evening and suggest that we go to San Francisco for the week end. She liked to plan for a week or two for trips like that, and I always thought it was more fun to do things on the spur of the moment.

The one place you and I differ, however, is that I'm very seldom late for an appointment. From my point of view, M P, life works by agreement. You have an agreement with yourself about who you will BE, and you have agreements with everyone in your reality. When you make an agreement, you're in effect this is who I am and who I will BE for you. When you break and agreement, you're saying, "Well I guess I'm not really who I said I was."

If I failed to be on time for an appointment, I would have broken an agreement with myself and eroded my belief in myself. As I see it, keeping agreements makes one powerful, while breaking agreements dis-empowers. The only real power any of us have is the power to BE, and most of us have trouble seeing that that's really all the power we'll ever need to have life come out BEING the way we wanted it.

The thing that makes your problem a problem for you is that you're making agreements with yourself and then breaking them, and that's very disempowering. My suggestion is that you take another look at each one of the above perceived way-of-being problems and see each problem, both as a way of being and as an agreement you've made with yourself. Then ask yourself if you really want to change who you are being, or if you want to make a new agreement about what's okay and what's not okay.

It's a Spiritual law, that when you make a new BEING Commitment, the Universe will provide you with everyone and everything that belongs in the reality you've just chosen. Choosing a new way of BEING and then KEEPING THAT AGREEMENT is the most exciting and empowering thing you could ever do for yourself.

M P, If you haven't read my book, buy it and learn why a new BEING Choice is the only real solution for your problem.

Go BE The Solution

Darel