Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Just Start!

One of the excuses I tend to give as a reason for procrastinating is that I want everything to be “just so” before I start.  If I can't do something exactly the way I envision it should be, I keep waiting until everything is just perfect.

The only problem is that most of the time everything is not going to ever be just exactly the way I want it to be.  There are a whole lot of things that never get done because I never even get started!

That was how I was feeling about getting started with our first year of homeschooling.  (We actually did some K4 last year, but kindergarten seems so much more official, doesn't it? 🙂 )

There were a lot of things that I wanted to happen before we started.  I wanted to get the kitchen re-arranged to make room for a school desk so little bug could sit at the proper height to do his writing.  I wanted to get all our flashcards laminated.  I wanted to have a better idea of what I was doing for K while little bug did his work.  These were just a bunch of little things that really weren't going to hinder a 5 year old from learning what sound letter I makes.

I finally decided that it was time to stop waiting for everything to fall perfectly into place and just start!

And start we did!

Little bug is quite happy with his letter I's.

Miss K did her best to keep up with her brother.

Concentration faces!

What have you been neglecting to start until everything falls into place exactly like you want it?  Maybe you should let your expectations go and just start!

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Oh, and another quick note.  Some of the activities you see my kids doing are from Confessions of a Homeschooler.  She has a lot of great printable homeschool worksheets (both paid and free) for preschool and K4.