It has been said since the beginning of time that procrastination is the thief of time, the fact is that I never truly understood the in-depth meaning of this particular phrase until later, like I couldn't relate to it 100 percent, it all started clearing up when I started growing up and was literally experiencing life firsthand, procrastinating is the easiest thing to do and it just goes on till it becomes a habit…
Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder, this is a saying on procrastination by "MASON COOLEY"...
I finally came to understand why procrastination is indeed the thief of time, I dug deeper and realized one of the things we humans have in common is the ability to procrastinate things. I have come to realize that the the majority of us love doing things at the eleventh hour and mathematically speaking, things done at the eleventh hour have more visible mistakes compared to when it is done at the right time…
There will be no chance of improvement in our ways of planning and doing things if we don’t change our ways of thinking, the change has to start from us, it has to start from somewhere, and the first thing that needs to be corrected is our mindset, we need to learn of how to to do things at the right time and not at the eleventh hour, the chance of having one or two mistakes in an eleventh-hour task is about 80 percent, give or take...
I know some of us don’t love doing things at the eleventh hour but circumstances force us to do it at that time, and I must say and commend those types of people because they gave it a try at least, which is the beautiful aspect of it but I know and believe we can do better than that…
I will be using my experience as a case study today, I would call myself the master of procrastination, I believe I am the best procrastinator in the world lol, I know myself for that and I don’t think I have come across anyone who loves procrastinating more than I do and even when I know it is a bad thing to do, I can’t help but find myself procrastinating a lot of things that needed to be done earlier till the eleventh hour…
I got tired of procrastinating because it started affecting me somehow, I was now seen and termed as an UNSERIOUS person, which is something I don’t like, I became a pro procrastinator because I am someone who likes doing something at my convenience but most people and even my inner self sees it as procrastinating…
I knew what my problem was and that was the first move towards finding a solution to my bad habit, I decided to change people’s perspectives about me, I mean their views of me as an unserious individual, which made me decide to reduce my habit of procrastinating things, especially household tasks, home chores, and educational tasks…
After studying a a few people and myself, I eventually found the solution to my problem of procrastination, I realized the best way to curb procrastination is by thorough planning, I started planning how to go about my chores in the most interesting way possible…
The main reason for procrastinating my household chores is because of boredom, after realizing this, I started doing these things very early and this was possible because of music as a driving force, my AirPods and an awesome playlist of afrobeat and bollywood songs have been beneficial in this means and since I started this, everything has been going smoothly…
I found out the trick to that and I am happy I was improving in my daily life. I believe the best way to overcome procrastination is by learning and teaching oneself to do those things in a fun and interesting manner, learn to plan, and do things at the right time, when their value is still there…
In conclusion, I believe to overcome procrastination, one needs to focus more on oneself, change your mindset, and focus more on what matters, when it matters, and slowly procrastinating will be something you do less even if you can't eradicate it totally, start from somewhere today because time is running out…
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