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February 23 - March 4, 2022
When you keep accumulating unfinished business, you create multiple open loops that take up mental space. Feeling overwhelmed, your mind’s natural reaction is to shut down. As a result, you find yourself stuck.
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish. J.R.R. Tolkien, author.
Consequently, the key is to realize that motivation doesn’t lead to action, but action leads to motivation.
“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
Our future self is nothing more than the result of the actions we take in the present.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln, former President of the United States.
To conclude, whenever you find yourself procrastinating over a specific task make sure you know the why, the what and the how.
Someday is not a day of the week. – Janet Dailey, novelist.
Self-compassion is the profound recognition that we are imperfect human beings trying our best. This recognition alone makes us more self-accepting, improves our well-being, and paradoxically, helps us achieve more.
Instead, there is a beautiful journey in which you enjoy every tiny improvement you make and every new insight you discover about yourself and the world.
The only thing that can prevent you from doing so, is your fear of not being up to the task, your fear of not doing a good enough job.
Procrastination is our attempt to place the burden of today onto the shoulders of a future self that doesn’t exist. It doesn’t work.
