Off My Chest/Lesson Learned: Procrastination

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday, the grave in which opportunity is buried, the largest form of self sabotage, suicide on the installment plan, the thief of time. (See thinkexist.com) Wikipedia defines it as "a type of avoidance behavior which is characterized by deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. It is often cited by psychologists as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision."

Procrastination is, in a word, bad. Why put off for tomorrow what you could do today? In fact, since we aren't even promised tomorrow, life is too short to defer your actions...for in reality, you may never reap the joy that comes from them. If in fact you procrastinate because you don't want to do something then just don't do it--and make that clear to the person who's requested it. To make a decision to do something but then procrastinate in doing it makes absolutely no sense and irks a go getter like myself. Don't wait for your mood or attitude to change. Your attitude doesn't run you, you run it. So make up in your mind that you are going to commit to your decisions, take ownership, and then get down to business. There will never be a more fruitful season than now, there will never be a more convenient time than today, you will never have any more time than you have right now. Do today in your love lives and relationships that which you keep putting off for later times. If not, you'll wake up and wonder how your whole life got off track and behind schedule? It will have gotten that way one day at a time.