Dreading vs Doing

Today's the day my beloved little sister arrives! I can hardly wait. If my Jeep wasn't disgracefully dirty I'd be sitting on the porch like a little kid instead of heading for the carwash! Last night I put off shampooing the living room carpet until nearly bedtime, finding a seemingly endless supply of distractions disguised as "must-do" tasks. When I finally gave in and hauled out the shampooer, the dreaded job was done and over in less than thirty minutes! I'm talking set up the shampooer, do the work, disassemble and clean the shampooer, and set it all on the porch to drip dry overnight! The dreading was WAY worse than the doing! Idling over coffee this morning I thought "...now why was I such a dingbat about this....?" Turned out my carpet shampooing experiences -- truly ordeals! -- had not kept pace with modern cleaning equipment. Wonder where else in my life the dreading is worse than the doing? And how much energy is being wasted? More later....