by Victor Usifo

Created on: October 04, 2009

How to control procrastination

Introduction

This fifteen letter long word, has amongst many factors been the worst cause of mediocrity, indolence and lack of aspiration attributed to a lot of people in our planet. Procrastination hinders many people from achieving anything worthwhile in this life. As a result of this setback, they are unable to archive meaningful objectives mainly because they refuse to take action. They make it a habit, to put off things they ought to do immediately as long as they could, hoping to tackle the job or assignment at a more favourable future, which of course we all know never really comes. So days turns into weeks, and weeks into months, and months into years, but the person remains in the grip of this habit. This process continues until this habit forms in stone and becomes difficult to break. This habit, gains a stranglehold on the neck of its captive, as it totally saps their will to act on anything meaningful thereby, rendering them incapable of initiating and completing any project no matter how easy the task my be.

* Motivation enters

At this stage the need of the captive to this debilitating habit, is for a quick solution that will free that person, to enable him or her live a fulfilled life once again. Because every action that has a beginning, must of a necessity have an end, the application of Motivation with less number of letters, but with a better sound to the ears comes to the rescue. And all that person suffering from this habit needed to do, was to find solace against the total powerlessness they once felt in the vice like grip of procrastination, by being motivated to act.

* How does motivation tackle procrastination?

All the person under the grip of this bad habit needed to do, was just to utilise emotional therapy to cure this problem. The person is simply made to be interested in a vocation, an assignment, a business proposal, a talent discovery or a hobby etc. As this person is engaged in this new found love and gets absorbed and consumed by this new activity, there is a sudden discovery of self. This new habit being formed now creates a reawakening of his hitherto dead sense of living a purpose driven life. As this person comes to terms with the reality of his or her former state, and attempts to shake off the yoke of procrastination, the death knell of procrastination is rung. Since there can never be a vacuum in our minds,a new pattern of positive thought is formed and reinforced, leading to the replacement

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