Yes, that’s right. It’s
true. I am going to admit that I am
total procrastinator. I put off today
what I have good intentions of doing tomorrow.
Tomorrow comes and I convince myself that tonight is not the right time
to do whatever it is that I need to do, that it can wait until tomorrow. I have good intentions of waking up at 5am to
get my day started early and an extra few hours to do those things that I
should have done last night. This is not
saying I don’t get many little things accomplished throughout the day. I am a productive member of society and I am
not lazy by any means. On any given day
I can give you a list of everything I have done and it sounds like I have
accomplished a lot. However, I wait
until the “eleventh hour” to do the tedious tasks, the complicated tasks, the
tasks that make me face up to the fact that I have probably messed something up
that I now have to fix. When the time
comes that I can wait no longer, I pray for something to happen to buy me more
time. Yet what good would that do? If I could buy myself a few more hours, days,
weeks, or months, I would likely still put things off until the last
minute. I am sure there are some people
out there who are very successful at meeting deadlines, organizing their lives
so that they don’t wake up with that dreaded “today is the very final day I can
do this” feeling. But I think a lot of
people are like me, and put off those less than pleasant details and duties in
life – those we either don’t want to face at this moment, or those that we feel
will waste hours of our lives we will never get back.
Often I put off things I don’t want to do in lieu of “having fun.”
Because I deserve to have fun if I have had a difficult day. I convince myself I deserve this fun because
it’s been a rough day, week, or month. I
have plenty of time, right? So my advice
for this coming week is as I say, not as I do. Believe me, you will be happier, feel more
accomplished, and it will cause a lot less headaches and worry in your
life. Don’t put off until tomorrow what
can be done today!
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