Time to stop delaying game
GET GOING: IT’S NEVER ‘THE RIGHT TIME’
With perpetual postponement, before you know it the year will be over and you won’t have lifted a finger towards your plans.
It is at the beginning of the year when everyone is full of hope of what the new year can bring that all of a sudden procrastination rears its ugly head. Just when you think you are ready and pumped up to tackle the world, you find yourself in a state of procrastination. And what makes it even worse is that procrastination is a self-inflicted epidemic. Yes the word “epidemic” fits the bill, because procrastination is a stumbling block that infects everyone and if you fail to find a cure you will find yourself at the end of 2018 still talking about how you’re going to change the world.
Simply put, procrastination is the process whereby an individual makes plans but instead of starting the implementation phase, he or she continuously postpones, puts off or drags their feet.
The key thing about procrastination is that one can always find justifiable cause to postpone whatever task they know they must do. How many times have we decided to start exercising, eating healthy, reading more, engaging with more clients or staying late at the office, but when the time came to start, a million-and-one reasons came to mind as to why we shouldn’t and we justified postponement?
If you are going to succeed in anything this year you must find a cure to your procrastination. And I say “your procrastination” because everyone has different reasons why they procrastinate.
For some it’s fear of failure, doubt, or uncertainty; to others it’s a lack of confidence and to some its plain laziness. But the biggest reason usually is because it’s not the right time; we are obsessed about timing – as if the planets are aligning themselves for our cause. The truth is there is never the right time; you must jump in head first and see what happens.
There are a plethora of reasons why people procrastinate, but if you are to succeed you must identify what causes you to procrastinate, then deal with it in order for you move on to implementing your ideas.
Procrastination has many downfalls, chief among them being it stops you from pursuing your dreams. But what about time? We all know the saying “time waits for no man” and I don’t think there is anything that eats up time more than procrastination. The perpetual postponement causes time to pass by and before you know it the year will be over and you won’t have lifted a finger towards your plans.
There is nothing worse than regret and procrastination plants the seeds for regret. Therefore, stop procrastinating and start now before it’s too late and you regret never starting at all.
Munya Duvera co.za) is the founder of the Duvera ELGroup.