Task Avoidance or Abandonment?

How do you know if you’re practicing credible TASK AVOIDANCE or if you’ve simply ABANDONED a project?

This is a question that every Lichtenbergian must confront, since the core of our philosophy is that we can accomplish more by procrastinating on our projects. The concept is simple: with a rotating list of things to work on, we avoid working on Project A by working on Project B instead.

But what if Project A never gets to the top of the list? What if we move on to Projects C-Z and never get back to A?

In my own work, I have been postponing doing serious work on Lichtenbergianism for Kids and the cocktails book since August, and nothing about either project is attracting my attention. Have I abandoned them?

What have I been working on instead? That’s the problem — not a lot. Sure, I’ve been handling theme camp placement registration for Alchemy, the fall burn here in Georgia, and that’s not nothing: 100+ theme camps, art projects, and more, all with space requests that have to be plotted out onto a new property with some sense of passeggiata that makes the event explorable and entertaining.

And there was the trip to Italy which loomed like a roadblock over everything — or at least seemed to.

But on the whole, nothing has really prevented me from working on either book.

So have I ABANDONED them?

We’ll examine this idea in a short series.