Wait a minute.

            Tomorrow, I will vow never to procrastinate again. Sounds familiar? Well, it’s familiar to me.  That’s procrastination put in simple terms. Some do it out of laziness, others do it out of fear, anxiety, you name it but the truth is we all procrastinate sometimes and for others a lot.

            In simple terms, procrastinating means facebooking when we should be working on an assignment, playing games when we should be productive, chatting when we shouldn’t be. It certainly feels good, for a short time while work keeps piling up. Before you know it, work just seems too impossible and down the drain goes your dreams. I have always talked about how unsupportive ‘friends’ can be an obstacle; procrastination is probably a bigger one. Procrastination is that static friction at the beginning of a journey, but once its overcome there is no stopping.

            It’s easy to be carried away by temporary pleasures; they certainly feel good, for a while. In the long run, they simply jeopardize the goals we surely set in our rightful minds. Sometimes winners win not because they are super talented but because they started early. Take an example of Sir Isaac Newton, he didn’t discover the law of gravitation by sitting around when his university closed but because he was proactive. We all given 24 hours in a day, somehow Leonardo managed to excel in 14 different professions in just 67 years of his life. I’m pretty sure procrastination was never in his vocabulary. Conversely, in most cases, quitters fail due to procrastination. We can relate to that.

              Temporary pleasures are just that, temporary. They are kind of like balloons ,take a lot of space but they are not really worth it. The real prize comes out of accomplishment.  A little medication called delayed gratification is probably the recommended weapon against procrastination. A little discipline and perhaps a routine will go a long way.

            “Due tomorrow, do tomorrow”, probably not a very good idea. William Arthur Ward wrote a couple of statements as a blueprint for achievement. I quote , “Decide while others are delaying, Begin while others are procrastinating” and he is right by all standards. The next time you are tempted to watch that movie or go to sleep, think of them as balloons. Every second spent on balloons is a step backward from the goal. Just do it dude, in the long run hard work  does pay.