Procrastination Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Goals
4Procrastination is stopping you from reaching your goal
Take a second and think of something that may be difficult or time consuming, but would be beneficial to you either progressing in your life or getting closer to reaching your goals.
So this is something that should be easy to do right? You know what needs to be done to achieve the next step of your goal, so why haven’t you?
Tim Urban has a great explanation of this scenario that I think about any time I am procrastinating, I’ll tell you about that later…… Just kidding. So imagine in your brain you have a little person who is driven to get things done, now you can be that person all day but there is an instant gratisfaction monkey that is easy to please and can cause more joy than following the other person that is driven.
Most people choose to follow the gratisfaction monkey and they allow him to make the choice of what they are going to do because it can allow them to be instantly happy, even while knowing that if they were doing something to be driven toward their goal that it could be good for them it is known that it will take longer to be as happy as they could within minutes.
Procrastination is something that is very difficult to overcome, especially in the time we are living in now. Technology has such a strong hold over a majority of the population because it is so easy to grab a piece of technology and instantly find things that will make you happy and make it easy to find anything that you are looking for. With things like this it can make you complacent with surviving instead of working to thrive.
The first step to beating procrastination is becoming conscious of when you are procrastinating. If you sit down and make a list of the things that you tend to do instead of working to achieving your goal. It will make it easier to overcome the challenges of procrastination if you understand when you are doing it. Personally my biggest hindrance that tends to make me procrastinate is video games. It is so much easier to hop on the Playstation as soon as the kids go to bed instead of working on my goals. I have recognized this and now I am not allowed to play my Playstation unless I have worked on my goals.
Other problems may be things like you don’t have the time, Make Time!!!! If you don’t give time to yourself no one else will. Another thing that people say is that they do not have the money to achieve their goals. If this tends to be your issue then you need to work on paying yourself first. You always have to make sure to pay yourself first, everyone makes the excuse that they have bills, but bills are always going to be there no matter what you do. Now I am not saying to not pay your bills but you need to ensure that you are always putting some amount of money away every month and to stick to it.
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