Napoleon Hill quoted, "it's a bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."
Touch a thistle timidly, it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble! Many readers and decision makers still find it so difficult to institute a dramatic change in their lives respectively. Why? Because the word "procrastination" is a powerful weapon of deferment and delay; delay to make a meaningful and productive shift or change.
WHAT'S PROCRASTINATION?
Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished.
It means the practice of doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, or carrying out less urgent tasks instead of more urgent ones.
Thus, putting off impending tasks to a later time. Sometimes, procrastination takes place until the "last minute" before a deadline.
Procrastination can take hold on any aspect of life. It can lead to feelings of guilt, inadequacy, depression and self-doubt.
Moreso, procrastination is a challenge we have all faced at one point or another. For as long as humans have been around, we have been struggling with delaying, avoiding, and procrastinating on issues that matter to us. During our more productive moments, when we temporarily figure out how to stop procrastinating, we feel satisfied and accomplished.
Commonly, it's an instrument used through the act of laziness to waste one's time of a great destiny. Not only that it delays a greater change or shift, but it delays to start a new concept or initiative and to reach a greater height in one's lifetime. It channels unsuccessfulness; successful folks don't procrastinate.
John Mason nailed, " success comes to the man who does today what others were thinking of doing tomorrow."
Unfortunately, this attitudinal enemy of change looks like an opportunity to be stress free but it's the beginning of someone's failure in life. Yes! If you don't do it now or today, you have eventually missed your chance and unusual opportunity to soar and to be successful in any ramifications of life irrespectively. Many don't know that procrastination is like a grave, it swallows success chances and advantages in a man's lifetime. It's an enemy that can't operate without your permission.
Hear what John added, "procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."
Have this and keep it, opportunity will never come to you and sit you down to tell you the exact time; minutes, hour, day, week or month that it will come to you to succeed, but from my experiences as a coach, I'm very sure that it can come at any unspecified time, and when it comes it will penetrate through your past and current doings or works. Therefore, opportunities carry channels. Now what you've done and what you're doing now determine your successes in life. That's why you must pay a good attention to your actions. It speaks louder and calls you great chances to achieve.
Popularly known Thomas Edison mused, " opportunity is missed by most folks because it's dressed in overall and looks like bigger work."
Frantically, a lethargic fellow is a procrastinator, and he or she is more or less like a person who commits suicide. Note this, there's no how you allow laziness that you won't procrastinate, even your future. So, few things are more dangerous to a person's character than having nothing to do and plenty of time to do it. And the truth is, any life that procrastinates faces more to do in life. You can't dodge that, only if you want miserable life. I agree with Edwin Markum, he nailed that "when a duty comes knocking at your gate welcome him in, for if you bid him wait, it will depart only to come ones small and bring seven other duties to your door."
Moreover, procrastination has the capacity to terminate dreams and goals if you allow it. For when a procrastinator has finally made up his mind, the opportunity to actualize his or her ambition, goal and decision has gone eventually. This has been the major cause of problems for many lives which posses this bad attitudinal enemy, that's the reason why they can't run after their decisions, aims or ambitions to the stage of realization.
This enemy of positive change dodges stress and later dazzles the most strenuous job easily. That was why Sir Josiah Stamp emphasized that, " it is easy to dodge our responsibilities but we can't dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities." This is why most people who sit around waiting for their ship to come in often find it is hardship. Yes! Because procrastination wastes time and time is wealth and while destiny works with time.
THE PROCRASTINATION-ACTION LINE.
You cannot rely on long-term consequences and rewards to motivate the present Self. Instead, you have to find a way to move future rewards and punishments into the present moment. You have to make the future consequences become present consequences. This is exactly what happens during the moment when we finally move beyond procrastination and take action.
For instance, let's say you have a report to write. You've known about it for weeks and continued to put it off day after day. You experience a little bit of nagging pain and anxiety thinking about this paper you have to write, but not enough to do anything about it. Then, suddenly, the day before the deadline, the future consequences turn into present consequences, and you write that report hours before it is due. The pain of procrastinating finally escalated and you crossed the “Action Line.”
There is something important to note here. As soon as you cross the Action Line, the pain begins to subside. In fact, being in the middle of procrastination is often more painful than being in the middle of doing the work. Point A on the chart above is often more painful than Point B. The guilt, shame, and anxiety that you feel while procrastinating are usually worse than the effort and energy you have to put in while you're working. The problem is not doing the work, it's starting the work.
Therefore, you must be bold and determined enough to conquer the thief of time not to rub you. Those things that come to a man who waits seldom turn out to be things he waited for. And in the calendar of a procrastinator, tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. Don't be one!
DON'T BE MISERABLE BUT STAY ACTIVATED!!!
