How To Overcome The Habit Of Doing Things At The Last Minute
Understand that it’s you who you’re hurting the most.
Not the current you, obviously, but the future you… which is still you!
No matter how you twist it and turn it, at the end it’s you who still has to do that task.
Pushing the task further into the future doesn’t make it go away and it won’t make someone else take responsibility.
It will still be youre responsibility to take! You are not pushing it to some other random person in the future but are only giving yourself more to do! You’re only avoiding the responsibility now.
Maybe you’re doing this in the hopes that things change, that you suddenly become motivated or that you get a brilliant idea to make it so much easier on yourself.
Maybe you still think that someone else will take care of it for you or maybe you disconnect it from the fact that you’re the one that has to do this.
But these are all just a masked excuses.
Think about it: In all those years you’ve pushed the task away, how many times did things actually get easier in the end?
How many times did you actually become motivated?
How many times did you get struck by that brilliant idea that made everything so much easier?
How many of these things were actually solved by waiting?
So why do you continue to hold on to the idea that it will be different this time?
Why do you insist on waiting when it only hurts Realize that the task remains the same no matter how you push it or to when you push it to. you The task itself remains the same! in the end?!
Face the reality that nothing will change; that it will be same task tomorrow, a week from now or even a year down the line as it is now.
Instead be more compassionate to yourself.
Be responsible and do what you set out to do. You will thank yourself for it as soon as you’re done.
The future you will have to deal with things the current you won’t, why make their job even harder?
Help them out. Be kind, charitable and helpful and do the thing you set out to do now.
Originally published at http://quora.com.
