Hard work is procrastinated but fun work is done now.
Finding the passion
I take it you are determined in whatever field you are in and also aspire to achieve a certain career goal.
And we are all passionate about something. But we can agree that procrastination hits us when we try to action our passions. Anything before taking the first step towards achieving a goal is a mere dream, a mere fantasy.
Thinking of your dreams brings about this joyful sensation. I’m sure achieving the actual dream would bring riveting joy than the fantasy of living the dream. This riveting joy is fulfilment and happiness, as a benchmark can be pointed and quantified.
Believe me you, merely dreaming and not doing anything to fulfil the fantasy will bring about envy; envy of those that are living their dreams and envy of living your dream. This envy then turns into unhappiness.
This unhappiness is brought about by lack of ambition and motivation to take the first step. No one to blame but yourself.
I hope this envy burns and chokes you, brings you so much unhappiness until you cant live with it, until you want to die, until you decide to do something about it. I’m kidding.
Here is a trick I use whenever procrastination visits my rich soul.
Look, if you take a step towards your goal, it means you closer than before.
Now dwell and linger on the thought of getting closer to your dreams through action. It would be joy right, knowing you are getting closer to your dreams? You would want to work harder, so that you get closer and closer! The closer, the extreme the happiness!
We can now attach happiness to the act of executing dreams. Therefore, since dreaming brings a bit of joy, taking action on the dreams also brings joy and happiness as you know you are getting closer to achieving the dream. And definitely achieving the dream is happiness and fulfilment.
Therefore, for passion to render any joy to you, you have to action it.
For your passion to render joy to you, you have to take calculated action/s to achieving the goal of that passion.
Established here now is that procrastination is the enemy of achieving your passion, it lives in deterring your action spirit.
Killing procrastination
I’m living my dreams, which is going after my dreams. Most times I dread to complete my ‘to-do-list’, like you. I give all sorts reasonable reasons as to why. The best one is, adding more work to tomorrow’s ‘to-do-list’. Needless to say that I never complete all of tomorrow’s to do list, which gets carried over to the following day.
“Hard work is procrastinated but fun work is done now”.
Procrastination is that enemy which says to you, don’t do this important task of achieving your dreams now, but do it later.
You kill procrastination by dwelling on the thought that through action, your dreams are closer to being realised.
Multitasking
Why do you multitask. Multitasking produces worry, as you are doing this and this at the same time, there you are worrying that you won’t do that. So much unnecessary strain on your brain, no peace of mind.
As an entrepreneur (for example), what matters is money : i.e. doing what brings in money. Money is not brought by refining and updating your business plan (if you are not trying to get funding), it is brought by connecting with the outside world, making contact, relating your offerings to prospective clients and checking up on your old clients.
This is what I call keeping main things main, working the main things then down. That’s taking care of business baby.
Answering the problem of multitasking. Focus on a single task, as you are more creative and focused that way. Finish that task then move to the next. Single-tasking helps you give your full clinical attention to a task. I’m not saying take your time completing a task; assign a time frame to complete whatever task, as other things still have to be done too. But still it must be work you would be proud of. This acumen develops through practice; you get better through practice.
The best way to kill procrastination is to get on and do the job without thinking of it. Take a sit at your desk, decide which task is of money making priority, the do it. A cool tip would be to schedule a completion time for each task.
But last week procrastination violated me. Over the weekend as I rested, I realised it was telling me I need to innovate my projects further, as they were starting to be boring. Excitement keeps you going.
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