Howdy friends! I have been having a digital scrapbooking week here. On Monday, and unexpected cancellation cleared my entire day, and for a bonus, I don’t have any homework due on Friday, so I decided I would push through and finish my youngest daughter’s album of the last school year. Yeah, that’s right. Last year’s album. The one I’ve had the photos sorted for since May. That one. The one I owe to last year’s teacher. Yup. EMbarrassing! Procrastination even hits consultants and I am here as living proof.

SO… Now that we’re all here in the same boat. Let’s talk about motivation, shall we? I bet you’re curious what pushed me to finally, months after the school year in question has ended, to finally get that book done this week. What was it? For me, a combination of guilt, really disliking the feeling of having that still hanging over my head, knowing that I need to *give that book to two other people*, and the fact that the Storybook credits I bought for the albums expire the end of November.

But the real kicker, what pushed me into ACTION this week, was that I am shooting photos for a wedding a week from Saturday and I just know me. I *have* to have those school albums finished before that shoot or they will fall so far behind the other, pressing things at the front of my plate that they might fall completely off – and the promised gift will not materialize and the money will go down the drain with the expired album credits.

So, youngest daughter’s album completed, I am pushing today to get oldest’s finished. I’ve less time at hand, so it might not get all the way there, but I am going to get as much of it done as I can in the time I have. It will be finished by the weekend – freeing me up to spend the next week on homework and doing what I need to do to prepare for this wedding shoot.

So, how about you? How do *you* get motivated to get it done? Do you have albums that haunt you? Do you have questions for me? Let’s hear it!

You can do it, Julia! Personally, I do think that the photo books are easier, but there is always that part about getting yourself to do it. Somehow, though, with the amount of time I spend with my computer, I find it easier than having to have a big space and equipment and so forth. I still have some traditional albums that I must also finiish, but for the most part, they’re all digital photo books now.

I’m sure that there’s a certain amount of “oh I don’t want to relive that year” that gets factored in to doing this particular book. Just think how much lighter you’ll feel when it is completed. You’ll never have to do it again.

Let me know what you need to cheer you on through the process. I know you can do it, and you’ve got a great plan to start. Print away!