The Confined Personality (Part 4)
Procastination
Every human is guilty of procrastinating at one point or other; no one is a stranger to this. Some might even be lucky enough to identify this in time and still be able to do something about it. But unfortunately for others, it may tie down their potentials and can even destroy their lives.
The why behind every procrastination varies from person to person and is not always obvious. Sometimes the factor called fear of the unknown and what could be the aftermath of the doings certainly bar a man from doing that which he ought to do. So also the factor named lack of motivation. Having the right information and materials at hand does not equate getting the perfect results, what if the possessor of the right equipment is scared or lack proper motivation to truly harness the potential embedded in the right equipment? He is then confined!.
It is amazing whenever there be sufficient and right weapons to navigate through, but what if the possessor is dull and insensitive in the deployment? Then the enemy captures him. Procastination is a system of dulling one's accuracy and timely expression of potentials. A system is never to be taken with levity. Levity in proper and timely engagement ends in guilt and frustration. Every system exist with footholds, so also procastination does by its footholds. Among the footholds of its that daily trap men are fear, insensitivity, lack of motivation, lackadaisical attitude, lack of sense of urgency and so on.
Nothing done with a sense of urgency rightly is a waste. Humans are put in time to do all their activities therein. So far time is limited because humans do die, there is no more chance of leaving the necessaries undone in time. He who understands time is a master of his occurrences and befalls. But a man that fails to understand the matter of urgency in doing the necessaries is a servant and observant of his own befalls without iota of authority for control.
Whenever you find yourself trivializing importance and urgency, the system of procastination is already in control. Procastination do joke with whatever that is needful in the disguise that though it is needful but it can wait till another time when you will be ready to do it. It will imprison your relevance!. Whatever shifts your needful now to another time is a shift to the realm of irrelevance.
Whenever you discover that you are a perpetual procrastinator, please be careful because it has far more damaging effects than you may realize now.
Let's briefly check out some of the effects of procrastination that can imprison the potentials of a man and if not carefully managed can destroy his entire personality.
1. Weak and poor decisions
Whenever a man begin to shift what is expedient to another time of performance, his decision making faculty is definitely enrolling in the college of low quality of life. Sensible mind and healthy reasoning man understands that the quality of his decision impacts the altitude and quality of his life, therefore he dare not belittle the essence of making decision to do things in time. Constant postponement leads to deep digging and launching into the well of irrelevance and imprisonment of potentials.
Weak decisions equates feeble living.
2. Loss of precious time.
How much time have you sacrificed on the altar of procastination? Your answer to that question could be a disheartening or victorious one, because sincerely only you can tell the quality and quantity of your life that procastination has eaten up.
The sad thing about procrastinating is that the moment you realize that your age is not static and that nothing has changed substantially in your life , you then begin to wonder where all the time went to. This is a terrible feeling because you can’t turn back the hands of time, you just have to continue to live with the helpless feeling of regret. There is nothing worse than feeling frustrated at yourself, knowing the situation could have been so different if only you had taken that first step!
3. Loss of opportunities.
Many have wasted their opportunities because they didn’t take advantage of them when they presented themselves.What many don’t realize is that that opportunity could have been a life changing one but they do trivialize it. Most opportunities only come around onces therefore never relax or settle with the mindset that there is a second chance somewhere. Do yourself a favor and grab them with both hands!
4. Dashed and weak stamina for goals
Yearly, monthly, weekly and so on, many do write down different goals to be achieved but what exactly would be responsible for the failure of realising those goals? Procastination does among other factors. You might have a strong desire to get something done or change the state of things but you just can’t seem to take the first step forward because you postpone this step every time there be a call for it.
A man may find himself thinking, “Why is it so hard to go for something that he want so badly?” Only him can answer that.
We do set goals because we have a deep desire to make our lives better. If we don’t then carry out these goals because of procrastination, we have then destroyed the possibility of having a better life. It is therefore expedient that you shun out procastination because it will definitely stop you and imprison your potentials if not carefully managed.
Stay tuned for concluding part of this series which I tagged 'Ignorance'