PROCRASTINATION

Procrastination is the act of postponing things when it can be easily done immediately.  We waste a lot of time by procrastinating.  Taking action then and there will help us to transform our life but we still do not take action and push it to a later date.  Why??  Sometimes the delay in taking action can lead to a problem and when we are faced with the problem we repent and feel we should not have postponed the issue.

You may sit down to start writing your next book, but just after two minutes at the computer you will jump up and head to the kitchen to grab a glass of fresh juice.  As you relish the glass of juice and settle down in front of the computer, you suddenly feel it would be good to check the programme in your popular TV channel and hence you swing up again looking for the remote control.  The next 20 minutes goes in surfing through various channels on the Television and you suddenly realise that you were at the computer writing your book.  As you settle down in front of the computer you see the pop up which announces that there is an email for your.  You feel it is better to quickly check the mail before sitting down for writing the book.  You open the mail box and the next one hour goes in emails, net surfing, browsing of some popular websites.

You want to write a book; you want to learn how to play guitar; you have some pressing assignments at work to be finished; you want to go for a long ride on weekends; you feel it is important to read a lot as it will help you to write well; you would like to chill out in the beach with your loved one; you aspire to learn atleast two foreign languages.

In the last 12 months despite all your efforts, wishes and aspirations you have not written even one chapter of your next book; you are yet to start learning guitar; you always have loads of pending things at work; your weekends are spent in front of TV or with friends in chatting and you have gone on long drive only three times in the last one year; you hardly find time to read; you did not go for a holiday in the last three years due to several reasons; you are yet to start learning any foreign language.  You feel everything that you plan is going for a toss and nothing is falling in place.  You feel though you are well-meaning and very dedicated and sincere in life, still things are highly evasive.

The reason is you are guilty of putting things off till the next day.  Tomorrow never comes and still you keep pushing things to tomorrow.  As you keep pushing things to tomorrow and end up not achieving many of what you have planned, you get frustrated and lose trust and faith in yourself.

The only solution is to beat procrastination.  You should make a resolve not to postpone any of your actions.  You should stop playing the catching-up game and start taking action so that there are less and less pending items.  Discipline is the key to success and it is important to set aside one hour each day for addressing your goals in life.  Watch this video which will help you stop procrastination from today:


When you stop procrastinating you will feel energetic and your long-term dreams will come true.  Dreams are not mere nonsense they are fulfillment of desires.

T.P.Anand
Dubai, U.A.E.
23rd March 2013