SEVEN PRACTICAL WAYS TO ARREST MR. PROCRASTINATION

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WHAT IS PROCRASTINATION?

Procrastination simply means putting away things that you need to do now with the intention of doing them later.When you keep postponing what you suppose to do now into the future for any reason, you are procrastinating. We all as individual in one way or the other procrastinate considering the enormous responsibilities we have dangling on our shoulder. This has become a problem to individuals who have formed procrastination as a habit. Life is not all about what we like to do but things that are necessary to be done. You may not like waking up very early in the morning to prepare for work but you have to do it because it is necessary that you go to work in time. There are a lot of things in life that an individual need to do. But in this context, we are looking at procrastination as an obstacle to achieving success in your career.

People talk more about goals and plans without much reference to Mr. Procrastination as regards to life achievement. There are people with great vision and good plans to achieve their goal but the element of procrastination has been a silent killer to their dreams giving them little or no achievement as the years pass by. I believe that every individual is endowed by nature in different ways. We need to discover ourselves and start today to put away procrastination from killing our dreams.

Procrastination silently kills a man’s dream due to the fact that much people have not come to realize this as one of the obstacles standing against their progress. It is when a man identifies a problem that he can be able to seek for a solution; procrastination is a big but silent obstacle to a man’s success because it steals away time. Time is one of the greatest assets given to man by God and needs proper utilization for its maximization. This is why it is necessary to state the time a goal is expected to be realized when setting a goal. This helps to give a push as your time starts ticking from the moment you set your goal.


Moreover, the issue of procrastination if not tackled in a man’s life will leave him with a life of emptiness. It will be a thing of joy and self fulfillment for a retired man to look back in his years and smile on counting his footprints. A man with no achievements in his life can not experience the good feeling of self fulfillment. Procrastination can deny you of social and economical benefits of life. It can kill a man’s dream by causing him to loose good opportunities in life. Luck has been defined as when preparation meets opportunity. One need to be prepared in other to take hold of the opportunities life presents in other to make success out from it. If you procrastinate, you will not be able to get prepared to take advantage of life opportunities.

SEVEN PRACTICAL WAYS TO ARREST MR. PROCRASTINATION

1. BE AWARE OF PROCASTINATION. When a new virus is identified by scientist, the easy way to get rid of it is by creating awareness. This will help to clear ignorance by alerting people and thereby curb the spread of the virus. Be aware of the harm procrastination can do to you and get ready to avoid it like an enemy.

2. EMPLOY THE USE OF YOUR MIND. This is a sure way to arrest Mr. Procrastination before it kills you. Your mind is a great asset which if used properly; you can get a lot from life. Your thoughts make up your mind. If you always think of shifting events, you end up procrastinating. Always tell yourself that the best time to start is now and not tomorrow.

3. TURN YOUR WISHES INTO A BURNING DESIRE. Everyone in life wishes for one thing or the other in life but what differentiates a mere wish and a desire is that the later goes with a fire to attain your success. A burning desire is the fire that will be pushing you on in pursuing your goal in life giving no room for procrastination. It can make you to work long hours and still feel good about yourself. With this fire, Mr. Procrastination will not near you. When you really desire for something you will go for it with eagerness and without waiting for tomorrow.


4. EMPLOY A CREATIVE IMAGINATION. This method will help to tell you that where you want to be in the future worth your actions today. By imagination I mean drawing a picture of what you hope to achieve in the future. This will serve as a driving force to inspire you into doing something immediately in other to get there.

5. GET ORGANISED AND BE FOCUSED. One of the reasons why people keep procrastinating is because they have lots of work looming before them which end up getting them confused. Yes, we all have lots of work to do but being successful in getting it all done is by taking a little time out to organize our work. What and what do I need to do now before the other? Organizing your work in order of priority makes it easier and helps you to get focused.

6. DON’T WAIT FOR THE PERFECT PLAN OF ACTIONS. You may be thinking, “I am not a good planner so this little plan I have here can not take me to my beautiful dream”. I want you to know today that your so called little plan will be better (if you act on it now) than a well detailed and perfected but unused plan lying at the mercy of dust in a shelf. Start with that little plan you have today and as time go on, you will be able to modify them to give you your desired result.

7. START FROM WHERE YOU ARE. Can a laborer working in a company dream of having a company of his own? The answer is yes and he doesn’t need to be a manager of the company before he can have or work towards the dream. No mater how far you think your destination is from you, you can start from your present level in other to move to another level of life. Don’t wait for a million dollar magic to happen before you can work towards that beautiful idea you have. Always know that you can start from where you are to get to your destination.

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LEARN THESE CHARACTERS TODAY AND ADD VALUE TO YOUR LIFE
The determinant of where you are in life today and where you are going tomorrow is you. Blaming other people for your misfortune can never bring a way to your solution. Instead start today to examine yourself and give corrections to the way you live it. Life is all about give and take; having an attractive personality will help you to sell your way through life. Whatever profession you have chosen in life, no matter the amount of education you have acquired, you are still at the risk of failing if you don’t have an attractive personality to work your way through life. It is necessary for you to develop and maintain an attractive personality and the 15 characters discussed below will help you to achieve this.

With these traits you are welcome into the home of achievers!!!

1. Develop and maintain a positive mental attitude toward yourself and the people you come into contact with in your everyday life. This will help maximize the power of your mind, grow your imagination and enhance your co-operation with people unlike in a situation where a man exhibits a negative mental attitude.

2. People likes to deal with sincere persons as friends, partners, clients, colleagues or any other form of human relation. If you are being insincere to people, you are out rightly waving them off and thereby limiting yourself from entering the home of achievers.

3. Deal with people with keen sense of justice. This will not only attract people to you but also opens doors of opportunities for you in your career.

4. Believing in your self and in God your creator. This will give you a power to use your mind and imaginations to greater achievements.

5. There is an adage that says that if cunning man die, a cunning man will burry him. You need to be frank with people when speaking with them. Let your “yes” be “yes” and “no” be “no”.

6. Be the type of person that makes decision quickly when the changing conditions of life demands it. There is this preacher who uses to say that if you have not decided on an issue, you have only decided not to decide. Time moves fast in this changing life and men who play around are thrown off.

7. One of the important traits you should add to your life is the ability to be flexible and open minded. Be flexible enough to adapt to new conditions of life, accept new ideas and don’t let your self to be thrown off by the winds of change.

8. It is important to respect other people’s feelings. Don’t be selfish in dealing with people anywhere and extend a helping hand where it is needed. Courtesy is the watch word.

9. Be the type that say or do the right thing at the right time. As a Christian, as I read the book of Esther in the bible. I respect her for her use of this character “tactfulness” in approaching the king which saved the people of Israel from danger and made her a heroine. You should know when to talk and when silence is needed in relating with people.

10. Do you know that by looking at your face and listening to the tone of your voice people can tell what you have in your mind? Be aware of this fact and present your self in a way to convey the right knowledge you actually want to pass across. Form the habit of smiling because it draws people to you.

11. Don’t be too serious with life but add a sense of humor to spice your life.

12. Those who can be able to control their emotions can go far in life. There are negative emotions and positive emotions. You should be able to get rid of negative emotions and make good use of positive emotions to be able to enter the home of achievers.

13. There is power in spoken word. You put yourself in great advantage if you are able to use words properly. One thing is to have an idea and another to be able to portray the idea to others in convincing words. You can start day-to-day practice of use of words by speaking convincingly when talking to your friends or families. Yes try selling your ideas or opinion to them.

14. Know it today that if you are the type that hates everybody around you, everyone around you will also hate you. You need to develop keen interest in people knowing that we are all special in our own different ways. God made us for different purpose so you don’t need to look down on others. Develop a genuine fondness for people.

15. Finally, you need to be an attractive package that is be able to combine all other traits discussed above.

“Good showmanship is the ability to combine facial expression, tone of voice, appropriate personal adornment, choice of words, effective speech, control of emotions, versatility, mental attitude, sense of humor and tactfulness, in such a manner as to dramatize any circumstances or occasion, so as to attract favorable attention.” CARNEGIE

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