22 Sep 2025
By Shelly Davis
PPP 366: Human Nature Delays

PPP 366: Human Nature Delays

Podcast, Practicing and Motivation, , ,
Have you ever planned to practice piano right after a lesson, only to find “tomorrow” sneaking in? Or wanted to start a project for yourself but been stalled by the small stuff—or worse, the big stuff just never seems to begin? You’re not alone. In this post, I’ll unpack what “human nature delays” means, introduce the intention‑action gap, and share concrete strategies for you and your piano kid to move from "want to" to "did"—bit by bit, week by week. Listen to the full episode here Episode Highlights What Are “Human Nature Delays”? The feeling of being unqualified, not ready, or not…
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26 Apr 2021
By Shelly Davis
PPP238: Parkinson’s Law: Works expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

PPP238: Parkinson’s Law: Works expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

Podcast, Practicing and Motivation, , , , , ,
I often say, "I get more done, the busier I am."Cyril Northcote Parkinson said the same thing, much more elegantly. Here is the first paragraph of an article he wrote in 1955. "IT is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Thus, an elderly lady of leisure can spend the entire day in writing and despatching a postcard to her niece at Bognor Regis. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another in hunting for spectacles, half-an-hour in a search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition,…
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