We can't eat our cake and have it! That's just the simple way I use to analyze the use of our time. Time is a precious thing in human life. While everyone has equal hours in a day, we don't have equal production with the same time. Some people utilize their time wisely, while some waste it, and it can never be recovered.
Sometimes, our level of achievement depends on how best we use our time. It depends on what we take as priorities, but it makes sense that we focus on more relevant things with our time before diverting to side attractions. However, that's not usually the case; we are caught up being distracted with other things that should come last in our day. Those things can be time stealers, time wasters, or time consumers—just name it—drawing us back and sometimes pushing our goal for the day to the next day, and before you know it, what we originally planned to achieve today becomes a goal for next week.
Humans can only be humans; sometimes we dance to the tunes of our flesh and give in to laziness or procrastination knowingly or unknowingly. Whatever time is lost can never be recovered, and of course time waits for no one. In that spot of your procrastination, the clock is still ticking, seconds upon seconds, minutes upon minutes, hours are going, days, weeks, and months—they are all flying while you still entertain procrastination.The funny aspect of it is that people who understand time are consistently utilizing it and flying, growing, and developing themselves, acquiring new skills and waxing stronger; every minute of their life counts to them, and perhaps you may start comparing yourself with such people, whereas you keep saying, "I will, I will", without taking action, right?
I wouldn't say that I am a procrastinator, but sometimes, I have certain work delayed for a reason;sometimes I am very tired, sometimes I lack motivation to start it, but somehow I get the energy to pull through because I hate carrying over my daily task to the next day. There is an unusual relief I do feel each time I complete my day's task before deciding to scroll through reels on social media. I am always craving such relief, and that's my motivation to do the needful and avoid procrastination. Gone are the days when I don't set my priorities right but swim in the ocean of procrastination. Now, I have a ton of responsibilities that are "a must-do," and I try to follow them back-to-back, especially in the morning once my kids leave for school and I have a calmer home to attend to my tasks.
With discipline and intentionality, 24 hours is still enough for me to achieve many things per day and rest in between.
Finally, some things are simply a waste of our time; they aren't just worth our time in any way. You see gossiping, looking for who you will please and who will please you, name them, but you see hanging out for no reason? Hmm, I once did that and hated myself that day! I came home and really was hard on myself because if I had thought well, the movement was simply irrelevant. Time I was supposed to use and help my life, I burnt it out there for nothing.
Overall, setting our priorities right is the best way to utilize our time and fight procrastination.
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