Stop Procrastinating… Do The Work!
With one month into the New Year, how well are you doing with your 2012 ‘To-Do List’ that you made back in January? Have you even started?!
Of all the bad habits we can get caught up in, procrastination has to be one of the worst. Well actually, smoking crack is probably a lot worse than avoiding the dentist and that pile of work on your desk. But assuming you’re not flirting with a drug addiction, your ‘procrastination problem’ is most likely holding you back from accomplishing a lot of important things that you know you should be doing.
Maybe it’s something at work. Maybe it’s a project at home. Or maybe it includes going to the gym instead of the buffet. Whatever it is that you know you should have already started, if you choose to keep putting it off, it doesn’t get done and nothing’s going to change.
But let’s face it… you already knew that, right? So why do you continue to drag your feet? What’s stopping you from doing what you want and need to do?
Are you physically or mentally lazy? Maybe some days you are.
Or, are you so comfortable with your current success that you’ve grown content and complacent? It turns out that’s actually pretty common.
Are you ‘too busy’ doing all the other tasks that you like to do, that you just don’t have time to do all the things you don’t want to do? Yeah, you’re in good company.
Or, are you afraid of starting something because then you’ll feel pressured to actually finish it? It seems that ‘not starting’ is a lot safer than actually ‘doing something’ and possibly failing.
Regardless of what you’re avoiding and why you’re avoiding it, it’s not going away and it won’t get done on its own. Ultimately, it’s not about having time, it’s about making time.
But again, you already know all of this. So, what are you waiting for? DO THE WORK!