Author: Tam Henderson / Source: Lifehack
What do your 3pm fridge raid and perfectly alphabetised bookshelf have in common?
You most likely did both of them when you should have been doing work.
Procrastination is one of the most human behaviours. We’re all guilty of putting off what we know is important from time to time, and it seems the more pressing the task at hand, the better we are at avoiding it.
Sure, it means that every time we have an important deadline we end up with a spotlessly clean house and a completely empty inbox, but the real work gets left until the very last minute and is finished in a frenzy of stress and caffeine.
But we can gain control over procrastination by noticing it as soon as possible and stopping it in its tracks. On the contrary, you know you have a bad habit when you’re aware you’re putting something off, and you continue avoiding it anyway.
To start you off with combating procrastination, here are a few quotes to get you in a motivated frame of mind, because if procrastination has any enemies, it’s motivation to work harder.
A few home truths
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“Someday is not a day of the week.”
― Janet Dailey
“Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
“The man who waits to know everything is the man who never does anything. ”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Procrastination is like going to a fancy restaurant and filling up on bread and not leaving enough room for dinner.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“Procrastination is the lazy cousin of fear. When we feel anxiety around an activity, we postpone it.”
― Noelle Hancock, My Year with Eleanor
“Doing things at the last minute reminds us of the importance of doing things at the first minute.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.”
― Bill Watterson, There’s Treasure Everywhere
“By what right do I, who have wasted this day, make claims on tomorrow?”
― Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes
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