Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Cheap Dreams: The Price You Pay for Procrastination

"Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.”
- CHRISTOPHER PARKER

What's the true price for procrastination? Can you actually calculate it? Most people go around and live their lives in what feels good in the moment. They do only that which feels comfortable right now and in doing this they keep putting off that which is really important. They keep putting off the very tasks that will eventually give them what they really want which is so much more than just feeling good in the moment.

You can never really calculate the value of procrastination as a single action can spark a whole series of events and effects, most of which you could never have foreseen when you took action. There truly is magic in action for every action is a cause set in motion that effects and builds on past effects to move you in a definite desired direction.

In life there are only reasons and results and reasons won't get you what you want. Only action will. Drop your story and start to focus on the price you will eventually pay for procrastinating. Get some leverage on yourself by focussing on the consequences of procrastinating instead of focussing on what feels comfortable in the moment. Remember that for every action or inaction there is a consequence. When you take action you get to influence the consequences of your life, but with inaction, indecision and procrastination you have no say and no influence. This is when your life feels out of control. Procrastination takes away and steals from you your ultimate power which is to shape and direct your own life.

Be careful not to fall in the trap of distraction for it has the tendency to become the norm and the norm leads to "normal" meaning that you will be like the majority of people who have no real drive and no ambition to create their lives the way they want them. It's all a choice, even if it is unconscious, but it does not have to be. You can take charge of your life. After all, it is your life. You get to decide exactly how you want to live it.

(in)action: How To Overcome Procrastination


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