STOP! Don’t put down this book that you’re reading! I know you find the title of this book interesting. And you’d say, “This must be an interesting eBook. But I’m dead busy now. I’ll get to it sometime later.”All right, my friend. When is that ‘later’ going to be? The ‘later’ might never come. If you stop reading this eBook now, I’m afraid procrastination has made an inroad.
I’m sure you’re familiar with this popular expression: “Procrastination is the thief of time.” The statement was believed to have been made originally by Edward Young, an English poet, some 3 centuries ago. The words have proved to be very true today, perhaps more than it was when it was initially spoken in 1742. In any case, procrastination is robbing the humanity of more …show more content…
Consider also the reasons given. The subordinate worker tells his boss: “Sorry sir, I’ve been too busy lately, I’ll finish the report very soon.” The child’s response to his mom is, “Mom, I forgot.” And the husband to the wife, “I didn’t have the time to fix it.”Is the secretary really too busy? Why does the boy forget to carry out his mother’s instruction? And does the husband really lack the time?
They all have one problem - procrastination. Procrastination has been with us for as long as humans started to walk on the earth. And the menace is not about to leave. It happens to the people irrespective of the placement in the society and as the world is becoming more complex, procrastination is becoming increasingly difficult to tame due to the complexity of the modern world.
In the three examples above, you could see a trend. The reality is, only a few of us will like to do reports, clean the room, or fix a plumbing issue when we have ‘better’ and ‘more enjoyable’ things to indulge in. So if there’s something you could do now but you put off without any productive reason, you’re procrastinating. You’re putting off for tomorrow what you can do today. It’s procrastination that causes people to delay an action when an action is definitely
I’m sure you’re familiar with this popular expression: “Procrastination is the thief of time.” The statement was believed to have been made originally by Edward Young, an English poet, some 3 centuries ago. The words have proved to be very true today, perhaps more than it was when it was initially spoken in 1742. In any case, procrastination is robbing the humanity of more …show more content…
Consider also the reasons given. The subordinate worker tells his boss: “Sorry sir, I’ve been too busy lately, I’ll finish the report very soon.” The child’s response to his mom is, “Mom, I forgot.” And the husband to the wife, “I didn’t have the time to fix it.”Is the secretary really too busy? Why does the boy forget to carry out his mother’s instruction? And does the husband really lack the time?
They all have one problem - procrastination. Procrastination has been with us for as long as humans started to walk on the earth. And the menace is not about to leave. It happens to the people irrespective of the placement in the society and as the world is becoming more complex, procrastination is becoming increasingly difficult to tame due to the complexity of the modern world.
In the three examples above, you could see a trend. The reality is, only a few of us will like to do reports, clean the room, or fix a plumbing issue when we have ‘better’ and ‘more enjoyable’ things to indulge in. So if there’s something you could do now but you put off without any productive reason, you’re procrastinating. You’re putting off for tomorrow what you can do today. It’s procrastination that causes people to delay an action when an action is definitely