Procrastinating much?

Hey there,

Battling procrastination is not unheard of.

“Why do it today, when you can do it tomorrow?” sounds so much more gratifying.

More time to scroll and binge and just lay there, like a couch potato cause. We are already doing so much, we deserve the down time.

But if you know that your procrastination has gotten you in a muddle more times than one at work or at home, then it’s time to try this.

So, to start off, you need to put on a purple suit, a carved halloween pumpkin on your head and follow these moves…

Okay, my bad!

That’s me procrastinating sharing valuable no-procrastination information with you.

Lesson 1: Empathy

Just imagine how frustrating it is for the person waiting for something to get done by you. Would you like to be in their shoes? Would you like to be made to wait for something that could move ahead with any further delay?

Huh!

Lesson 2: Fear

The road to empathy is a tough one. Fear works in places where nothing else would. It also works in cases where the person waiting is YOU.

Yup, in cases like:

“I will start exercising tomorrow.”

“I will start journaling from tomorrow.”

“I will eat another burger just because I can. Tummy fat, I don’t see you ”

“Only 500 words left, I can write it tomorrow.”

“Gosh! 10 more emails, I can answer them tomorrow.”

There are n number of things we delay in one day. That is the exact count by which we are not complete. 

Every time we leave something for later, we are adding more to our incompleteness. And trust me, the incomplete us doesn’t look half as good as the complete us looks.

Can you honestly say that you go to bed each night satisfied with how the day went. That you did right by yourself, right by your family, and your work?

Let’s go back to the cases we used as examples for procrastination:

“I will start exercising tomorrow.”

What if you pull your back and spend the next one week at physiotherapy cause you put off exercising while you could?

“I will start journaling from tomorrow.”

What if you reach a meltdown point because you have been binging content on Netflix till you dozed off, never taking the time to express what’s bothering you or focusing on what you are grateful for?

“I will eat another burger just because I can. Tummy fat, I don’t see you ”

What if you realise that had you started working out while you were being loyal to burgers, the tummy fat wouldn’t add on at geometrical progression and would be much more manageable?

“Only 500 words left, I can write it tomorrow.”

What if the internet/power goes off and you have a deadline and you had sufficient amount of time to actually work on the article but yet, here you are…stuck!

“Gosh! More emails, I can answer them tomorrow.”

What if one of them needed your signature stat and since you put off checking the emails you missed the date!

or worse,

Do you see one single phrase being repeated in each of these scenarios?

That’s right, “What if?”

Anxiety is closely linked to procrastination. The non-need of facing something substantial makes us put it off, aka, procrastinate.

All you have to do is NOT think of the present and think of what’s going to happen if were to NOT DO what you are supposed to do right now. Remove your worries from the present, focus on the tomorrow part of it.

Fear tends to make us do brave things. Things like winning over anxiety and actually getting the thing done for the fear of what if things don’t work out tomorrow.

This was me, after a long hiatus.

Yes, I was not procrastinating but taking a break. rejuvenating to bring you back some good stuff.

Do reply to me with things you would like me to write about! As always, I love reading your replies.

Until next time…

Cheers,

Proma

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