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The Problem With Procrastination: Stop Hurting Your Future Self
Understand that procrastination ends with 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 that you are avoiding right now.
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 you’re responsibility to take and will often be even harder than it was before.
You are not pushing it to some other random person in the future but are only giving yourself more to do!
Which is basically a more complicated way to say that 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 randomly stumble upon a brilliant idea that will make it 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.
