I believe a lot of dreams have been shattered just by the seed of procrastination in the heart of the dreamer. There are many people that have not done what they are called to do because they choose to postpone it until tomorrow. Tomorrow is never a guarantee, we don’t know what will happen tomorrow and if tomorrow would have come nothing would have been done.
A procrastinator
is someone who waits for tomorrow to begin today’s work,
or the one who does not manage his time properly.
In a business environment, you are busy with meetings, appointments and endless calls from clients and then, you suddenly realise that all these jobs take up your time and you are unable to complete your project on time.
After failing to send out the project, you may feel a little bit guilty because you had already promised the project before procrastinating it.
So far, quite a lot of people in the world have this problem and most of them are giving excuses for being late. One reason is that they don’t have enough time to finish the task and another reason is that they don’t know how to start it. Most likely, they have not prioritised their tasks perfectly. If they have time management skills and they prioritise their tasks in the right manner, they can finish a project within due date.
It’s a seed that is watered by feelings of low self-worth, feelings of low confidence and feelings of inadequacy.
We should know that anything worth doing at all should be done at the moment. There is no benefit in doing today’s work tomorrow, because tomorrow will be another day and you are going to have to start all over again.
What happens when you choose to procrastinate? You will find yourself behind time, your peers will have reached higher grounds, you will reach a point where you are way too far to catch up. At this point, you are so stressed out that you now become afraid to even try. So instead, you chose mediocrity. This is how procrastination kills dreams and turns people into mediocre.
Procrastination is a killer. It’s the mind killer. It’s the little death that brings total obliteration. No one wants to work with a procrastinator.
It’s much easier for you to do the work today and get it over with than tomorrow. I know because I have seen a procrastinator.
We live in a world that is always competed for our attention, a world surrounded with hundreds of distractions on every side doing their level best to draw us into their web. This causes many people to suffer from anxiety and depression. We quickly lose sight of what is important to us and pick up our phone or tablet to fill the void left by an unfulfilling life.
Procrastination is like stealing one’s on time. Using tomorrow’s time for today sounds like stealing time from yourself. The act of not doing something and the feeling that arises from that, emotionally, is like the pain of a needle prick. The fear of retribution is real.
But then again, no one wants to suffer. Truth is, procrastinating is a very hard habit to break.
The good news is, you can overcome procrastination if you put your mind to it like I did. Stopping procrastination is easy when you challenge yourself beyond fear, when you push yourself beyond comfort zones into new levels of success.
Lead Image is the screenshot of the stop watch on my phone
I first published this post on read.cash https://read.cash/@baned/procrastination-a-killer-of-dreams-426b8fbf