SCRIPTURE: Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life?
QUOTE: “If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.” –Robert Collier
NOTE:
You have a deadline looming. However, instead of doing your work, you are fiddling with miscellaneous things like checking email, social media, watching videos, surfing blogs and forums. You know you should be working, but you just don’t feel like doing anything. We are all familiar with the procrastination phenomenon. When we procrastinate, we squander away our free time and put off important tasks we should be doing till it’s too late. And when it is indeed too late, we panic and wish we got started earlier. The chronic procrastinators I know have spent years of their life looped in this cycle. Delaying, putting off things, slacking, hiding from work, facing work only when it’s unavoidable, then repeating this loop all over again. It’s a bad habit that eats us away and prevents us from achieving greater results in life. Don’t let procrastination take over your life. Here, I will share my personal steps on how to stop procrastinating.
ILLUSTRATION:
For example, If I decide to write a book, now writing a new book (e.g., on How to achieve anything in life). Book writing at its full scale is an enormous project and can be overwhelming. However, when I break it down into phases such as – Research/Deciding the topic/Creating the outline/Drafting the content/Writing chapters/Revision/E.t.c.
REFLECTION:
Why do people push work to the deadline date?
TWO YEAR BIBLE READING: Isaiah 2:6 – 4:1, Proverbs 1:8-33