Recently I began to read a book by Joyce Meyer titled "making good habits, breaking bad habits" and reality began to dawn on me how much I have allowed procrastination to become a habit eating deep into my life.
"I am tired, I will do it later." "There is time, I can do it later." "Let me relax a little, I will attend to it later," are phrases that took several opportunities from us.
Most times, it capitalizes on our weaknesses, it comes as if it is here for our good, it flashes the need to relax and show ourselves some love and before you know it, one is already caught up in the trap.
Several individuals have lost opportunities that would have transformed their lives, several students failed examinations, several people are still stagnant never progressing all because of procrastination.
It's funny how, sometimes, it even makes us feel we are not ready yet as though there is any specified time for anyone to be ready in life rather than now.
Last year, around October, I started feeling usual. From time to time, I feel weak. Somedays when I wake up in the morning headache holds me down.
I am someone who loves going for a long walk but my strength started diminishing, I could no longer cover distances that I used to cover. If I persist, I feel dizzy.
I spoke to my mother about it and she encouraged me to go for a check in the clinic and I was pleased with the idea.
But days passed and I didn't, I kept telling myself that I would go during the weekends and when the weekends reach, I would still postpone it to the next one.
My condition kept becoming worse but I was suppressing it because I was still feeling strong.
One of those days, I woke up in the morning and I couldn't go out, to lift myself from the bed became a problem. My mom thought I had gone to the clinic already and gotten medication because it had been almost three weeks since I complained to her.
Surprisingly, when she came back from work that day, she knocked at my door and my response was faint. When she got inside, I was on the bed shivering and struggling inside my blanket.
She quickly called a bike man to take us to the clinic. Just before we reached the junction, I fainted. When I opened my eyes, I was already on a drip lying on the hospital bed.
I was lucky my case ended well, but some people weren't that lucky. Procrastination is a thief of time and opportunities. As little as that task we are leaving for later looks, it can end up costing us more than we expected.
It is not easy to overcome procrastination but it is worth it, the few tricks I used to fight this enemy are as follows:
Do the tasks as it comes approach: if we don't want to leave any tasks unattended, the best thing to do is to do it right away regardless of how we feel. We have to kill our emotions and be more focused on the goal.
The second approach is setting a reminder: there are times we just can't help it but postpone some tasks due to one reason or the other. Whenever I am in that situation, what I do is write the task on a piece of paper and keep it where I can see it later or even set a reminder on my phone. This helps me to attend to the task whenever I am less busy.
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