Get Right At It
And End Procrastination

Procrastination will always make your life more difficult. What is needed is a way or a mindset to get out of it.

My father said the phrase the other day. It was "Get right at it". It is the way he is. When something needs to be done he gets right at it. Meaning, just do it. Don't wait. Start.

I was and am amazed at my dad and what he could accomplish. He had a full-time stressful supervisory job, a wife, 3 kids and a small farm.

We went to church every Sunday. We watched the Packer games and all the other major sporting events. We went out to eat once in awhile. We went to Eau Claire (a bigger City 45 minutes away) for entertainment occasionally.

We had a big yard and 2 cars. We had a dog and a lot of cats.

We went hunting, fishing and the kids were in various activities. My mom also worked. He went to bed at a decent time. Watched some TV and read books. He also helped us with homework.

My point is that it how did he have time for a farm of 65 acres and up to 30 head of cattle and some horses.

I see now that he did not procrastinate.

We planted corn and oats every spring. Baled hay in the summer. Harvested the oats in late summer and the corn in the fall.

We fed the cattle in the barns all winter and kept them watered all summer in the pasture. We helped the mother cows to deliver their calves and did veterinary chores.

He also built most of the barns, sheds, feed bunks and fences by hand without any help except for me.

My mom did some farm work. I did quite a bit, but I really liked it. My younger sister and younger brother, not so much.

My dad just had a way of working. He did not run or walk that fast. He just worked. He was not a perfectionist and did not delegate. He just did not procrastinate. He got right at whatever needed to be done.

We never made much money farming and he did not put much money from his job into the farm.

The machinery was old and continually breaking down. The cattle were the cheapest ones he could buy.

But everything seemed fine.

Machinery would break down and he would fix it in spite of not being a very good mechanic.

Cattle would get sick and he would tend to them.

He would take some time off in the summer to make hay during the day and it would rain.

He never bought anything new, even lumber. He would just tear something down and reuse the lumber.

It didn't even seem like we worked that much. The chores just were a part of the day. He got right at everything and did not procrastinate.

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