Procrastination has been called the thief of time. It robs in broad daylight. It lures and stabs.
What is Procrastination? Procrastination is the act of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that there could be negative consequences for doing so.
Procrastination is a killer of ideas and innovations, it lures you into thinking that you have “all the time in the world” to perform a given task but in reality you are being sidetracked. BEWARE.
When you postpone what you are supposed to do today for tomorrow, what happened to the tasks you are supposed to perform tomorrow? It’s always an endless cycle of postponement until the irrationality of your actions dawn before you. As Christopher Parker said, “Procrastination is like a credit card: It’s a lot of fun until you get the bill”. Don’t allow yourself to be fooled into thinking that you have time at your beck and call. Time wait for nobody, Infact it is a respecter of no person.
Mason Cooley said, “Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder”. It’s simple and precise. Let’s assume you are preparing for exams and you were given some books to read in preparation and you abandon the books until few days to the exam, you will end up stressing yourself out. There is always a clear distinction between a person who started preparing for the exams immediately the books were distributed and someone who begin to flip his books two or three days to the exam. It makes the preparation harder no matter how fast the person tend to be.
Have it in mind that Procrastination is a killer of success too. It makes you lazy and blind to your inner potentials. You have to discipline yourself, create a schedule and stick to it against all odds.
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Wayne Gretzky said, “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy”. You can’t trade your happiness for anything, rise and take the bull by the horn.
A curious mind will want to know if there are ways to overcome procrastination. The answer is YES.
– Plan or create your schedule and stick to it.
– Set a deadline to enable you meet up with your target.
– Create a mental picture of your visions or goals and take a leap towards achieving them.
– Form the habit of rewarding yourself when you meet a particular target. It kindles the fire.
– Most importantly, stay focused to the plan.
EXTRA✓
PERFECTIONISM AND WAYS OF OVERCOMING THEM.
Perfectionism, entails, “striving for flawlessness and setting exceedingly high standards for performance, accompanied by tendencies for overly critical evaluations”.
Practice, they said, makes for progress, and not really perfection. Striving for perfection is just like chasing after the winds, because it cannot be attained.
April Bryan said, “Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.” Striving to be better version of oneself is really the key but striving to be perfect in one’s doing can be likened to daydreaming because no one can be perfect except the creator.
Work on improving yourself, don’t be obsessed with trying to attain perfection because it will only leave you insatiable for the unattainable, and when you persists it only leave you unsatisfied with a feeling of inadequacy.
At some point in our lives, a strive for perfection may hit us but you should always have it in mind that it is a dream killer and makes you ungrateful for what you have achieved so far. Listen, it is not a leverage to fold your hands, as well as a parameter for measuring your success.
– Being appreciative and grateful of what you’ve achieved so far,
– Having it in mind that perfection is unattainable but progress makes the difference,
– Setting goals that are achievable and
– Working on improving your self and many others are the sure bet of overcoming perfectionism.
