It has been a need that has fueled the self help book publishing industry and spawned thousands of people who get us to set up lists, write memos, talk in front of mirrors* and do other crazy stuff. Yes, to help us to unprocrastinate# our lives we have been spending a lot of time, effort and greenbacks.
But why do we procrastinate, lets look at this way. If you are not absolutely sure that you will be able to finish something on time, you will refuse to do it. And what gives you the surety that you can do it, is that you had accomplished the task previously and on time too. If anything this ability to think we can accomplish something in only so much time is a pat on our back for prior good job at the same task.
So we are good at something and we know we need only this much time to finish it. Now since we are "Good", lets up the ante a little bit, how about a rush of adrenaline to kick it in? We push the project to the least amount of time that we can finish it, with a deadline on the corner. why? for the adrenaline, how many times have be huffed and puffed and drew a sweat as we managed to just finish something before the deadline? And the sly smile after we handed it! (Hey i managed and just in 2 hours, what I had all week to do, I am good!).
So we have past accomplishments, adrenaline rush and the finally plainly because we are actually good at it. Yes most of us procrastinate because we are good at
1. The task at hand
2. Procrastinating
So there you have it, stop berating yourself and go dump those books on how to beat procrastination.
The only problem is that good is not great or magnificent. It only is what others are also. Good. Now to go beyond that you have get beyond and get to become enchancers. Get a title that says you are Media Enhancer, Creative Enhancer, Industrial Enhancer.... and go enhance the world. now. i meant right away. Get up and get out.
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* I made that up
# Yeah that one too
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