The Price of Putting Things Off

Updated June 29, 2025 3:55 PM

I just realized I've been paying for my email newsletter account month after month--aWeber has been collecting their fee faithfully--yet I haven't sent a single email in over six months. Not one.

Why? Simple: procrastination dressed up as "I'll get to it."

A while back, I changed hosting providers. No big deal. But every time you do that, your email settings need to be reconfigured so you can actually receive email again. That's something I never got around to doing. So my newsletter? Dead in the water. Subscribers? Waiting. Money? Wasted.

And the sad part? The fix wasn't even that complicated. But procrastination has a sneaky way of making small tasks feel like giant mountains. One day becomes a week. A week becomes months. Before you know it, half a year passes and you're still "planning to get to it."

So today, I stopped the bleeding. Sat down. Took care of it. And I send out an email to my Haitian Internet Newsletter subscribers alerting them that I now have Books published on Amazon for their reading pleasure.

Because if we're honest, a lot of us aren't stuck--we're just avoiding the little steps that lead to the big moves.

Nobody's Coming. Get Moving. - A Book by SP Woodring

This is exactly the kind of mental clutter I talk about in my book Nobody's Coming. Get Moving. It's a straight-up, no-fluff wake-up call for anyone sitting on dreams, stuck in limbo, or just waiting for things to magically fix themselves. (Spoiler alert: they won't.)

If this hit home for you, maybe it's time to stop waiting and start moving.

Your email won't write itself.
Your book won't publish itself.
Your dream won't build itself.

Do the thing.
--SP Woodring

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