In a perfect world, just
about everyone at some point in their life has been or will be a
procrastinator. As a whole we put things off for several reasons. Some of them
are because we just don’t want to do it, think or assume that we don’t have the
time to do it or we just don’t like doing it… It’s a part of being human. Don
Marquis, an American writer, poet and playwright said, “Procrastination is the
art of keeping up with yesterday”. I like to think he was saying that we have a
tendency of thinking that we have lots of time before something is due.
The
very reason that we do it is because we are afraid. We naturally have a fear of
failure when things aren’t going well, so we avoid doing something. Another is
because we feel we are too busy with other daily activities, like jobs
and school for example. Unfortunately, another is because we believe
procrastinating works. We have a tendency to do something we like or enjoy,
instead of doing the task at hand. We also expect ourselves to be perfect.
Procrastination can often guarantee failure, but believing that we are
perfectionists makes us sometime to believe that we can do things half-hearted.
We procrastinate by ignoring what we have to do or accomplish. We allow short
breaks to become very long ones or we don’t finish at all. We focus our energy
on one part of something, at the expense of the rest of it.
I am
now using my time more wisely, since I have found many ways to combat and
understand the reasons and symptoms of procrastination. I am sure this will not
go away overnight or in a week, but it will take some time. All procrastinators
will have to work on this. Me, I will take on this challenge and work hard on
it as often as I can, so that I can accomplish the goals that I have set for my
career. You can do this too. Minimizing procrastination will help me in
becoming successful in that aspiration. “Until you value yourself, you will not
value your time. And until you value your time you will not do anything with
it.”- M. Scott Peck
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