The P.R.O.C.R.A.S.T.I.N.A.T.O.R.S.

The P.R.O.C.R.A.S.T.I.N.A.T.O.R.S.

This is a competitive world, a highly competitive world. Right from the moment you are born till they sing you an epiphany, you are competing with everyone around you. Ambitious people thrive on competition. It is after all competition that helps segregate the ‘best’ from the ‘better’. The optimists look at competition as an opportunity to prove their worth and that golden chance to get to their goals. The pessimists frown upon it, call it names, and would rather have nothing to do with it. So they label themselves as the ‘satisfied crowd’ calling the optimists as the ‘go-getters’.

So which label suits you the most? Now thats a tough question isn’t it? I mean life is not always black and white, it almost always grey... and thus the birth of our clan; the Procrastinators! We literally are somewhere in between the optimists and the pessimists. We want the best of both the worlds and yet would cringe at working hard to achieve our goals.

Don’t judge us yet, you are one of us too. You had that smirk when while reading the above paragraph! No, don’t want to be labelled a procrastinator yet, well how about this, tell me how many of those “new year resolutions” have you actually implemented and striked off your list? Hurts doesn’t it? Well all I can say it, welcome to the clan!

But this blog is not about procrastinating and its good and bad effects on individuals. It’s actually on how to get beyond the procrastinating attitude and into the go-getters zone! (And to say that it took me a whole of a week to sit down and write this blog...!)

So my dear clannisters, here are the steps to help you beat the $h!t or whatever hell it is to get going

1)      Listen

Listen to the people around you, to your close friends and family who really care for you and dare to show you the mirror. This will help you decide your long and short term goals.

2)      Set your Goal(s)

Set a goal(s) for yourself. This can be long term goal e.g. I want to be fit and healthy or a short term goal e.g. I will reach office on time. And please do not postpone this activity to December 31^st!  

Set yourselves a date by when you would want to achieve this goal.

3)      Plan a timetable

“When in doubt retrace your steps”. Back track from the goal achievement date to today and plan out every detail of how you want to achieve your goal. Remember this is not an engineering exam that can be cracked in one all-nighter! This is what is going stay with you for life! So plan every detail, step by step. In fact also include some cheat time.

4)      Get going!

Yes, get up from your couch or from the bed. Put an alarm (only really bad, boring songs allowed) for 6.00 am! And do not snooze it.  Get up and get going.

5)      Remind

Remind yourself everyday that you are doing this for yourself that this will help boost your confidence. The more credit you attach to this activity, the more you would want to do it.

6)      Reward

Reward yourself on every small achievement. Recognise your efforts by indulging in something you love doing (how about procrastinating?! Kidding, do not even think about it) and encourage yourself thus.

Hope this helps. For now, Accelerate and Go for it!