Success Vs Procrastination

We all do come across people who daily face a vast rift between what they fully intend to do and doing it, in all facets of their lives. Just to clarify - Prioritization of work and therefore, delaying any work because some other is more important can certainly not be referred to as procrastination. While few don’t have any reason for procrastinating since it after certain duration gets imbibed in their habit and daily work-style. One speculation of procrastination is that few people like the adrenaline rush of postponing things to the last hour and find excitement in it. I am sure this rationality will find very few buy-ins.

 

Another logical rational follows: the fear of failure generally accentuates to more failure. The fear of failure often paves way to procrastination. One thing the fear of failure will never lead to is success. Pushing the "go" button may not guarantee success but it opens chances for you to succeed. On the contrary, having your foot on the brakes will never get you anywhere. Your odds of succeeding always go up when you just go for it simply because you already have the conviction of succeeding rather than having the outlook of fear. You will find yourself engulfed in a catch-22 situation - if you focus on not failing, in the end, you're really focusing on failing. The fear of failure will never drive you toward success. In fact, the fear of failure will push you farther away from success. The only way to move forward in your life is to get your foot off the brakes, and press the "go" button. Stop running away. Stop focusing on fear. Stop focusing on failure.

This leads to conclusion that procrastination is significantly associated with human psychology and therefore, opens gates for further discussion. Often success in any sphere means transformation or change and people are apprehensive about or reluctant to any kind of change. This is quite common and nothing peculiar about it. A very practical way of overcoming this obstacle is to be adaptive and learn to embrace change. Try to gauge what this change will bring about – more often than not one will realise the positives outweigh the negatives.

 

The road to success passes via good planning, commitment, punctuality and of course, hard work. Procrastinating things/work may lead to excitement, experience of working under pressure and sometimes, to success but it is definitely not the safest and surest way to success. In life, you should avoid one big risk at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. Procrastination assassinates the opportunity in your hand. It will always keep you caught in the web of yesterday and consequently, you will never be able to move to today (forget about tomorrow). The best way to do something is to begin. To conclude, I will borrow a quote which I read few days back “Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.”