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Are You Running Toward or Away From Challenges in Your Life?
It matters which you choose.
Have you ever had a looming deadline but instead of doing the work you ran to TV shows, video games, or debauchery?
I’ve never descended into debauchery myself (which I’m a little sad to admit), but I can say I’ve spent an absurd number of hours watching TV shows and playing video games just to avoid doing the work I knew I had to do.
And it totally makes sense, doesn’t it? We’re stressed about a deadline and we want some relief. What’s wrong with a pinch of debauchery to relieve the stress?
Especially since you know the work will get done. Sure, you might need to pull a couple all-nighters, but that never killed anyone!
The problem I’ve noticed is that not all challenges we face have deadlines. So, when there’s no looming endpoint, what do we do?
For me, I never stopped procrastinating. I never stopped putting things off. Every day I would run away from hard work and hard decisions, straight into the loving arms of TV and video games.
And yeah, they treated me right. But underneath all that love and affection was an uneasiness that never went away. I felt it in the back of my mind even when I was happily doing other things. And I felt it fly to the front of my…
