As a result, we procrastinate what's important, thinking we can always do it later. But one of the worst things that anyone can do in life is to put things off.
In the book “On The Shortness of Life,” Seneca, the great Stoic philosopher, says, "Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future"
In other words, too many people spend their life planning their life and never actually do anything. This is why it’s so important to set deadlines for yourself.
Why? Because the amount of time it takes to achieve a goal is always going to expand to fill the time given to complete it
|If you have less than a few days to finish a project, for example, then the pressure of time will force you to focus and do what's needed to get it done.| But if you're given a month to do the same project, then it becomes a mental monster, never getting done, always being put off.|
√This is how most people are with working towards their goals. They have their entire life to complete their goals so they never get anything done.
Stop acting like you have a 1,000 years to live your life and live immediately. It's always better to start from where you are than to procrastinate, waiting for the time to be right and for everything to be perfect
√Remember what Friedrich Engels once said, “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
|So choose the ounce of action you can take today. Even if it's the wrong action, do something| √