Procrastination

 What is  procrastination ?

This is not a fancy word but a daily activity which we do knowingly or unknowingly. Procrastination is an act of  avoidance or delay of day to day tasks.

More you push  your brain to work hard it will procrastinate. This could happen in work scenarios where you either need to work hard or you have too much work to do.  Our brain thinks that it has to work hard or work long hours  and so it will  push us to a stage of procrastination. This has become a common phenomenon during  the covid-19 crisis, most of us who work from home have been caught up with this both on official and personal front.  

To overcome this problem we have to cheat our brain, this can be done by breaking the job into small bits and tell the brain to do these small jobs at the prescribed time frame. This is how planning and scheduling works, and it is easy and effective. People who take these small steps in the present will be able to take giant leaps in the future. These things look simple in theory  but in practical life this  looks miserable to do on day to day basis. This transition is mostly a failure because we are motivated for one day by a video on youtube or a post on facebook or a blog like this, but we are not willing to understand the theoretical  root cause of the problem and we have to  take baby steps to achieve a giant leap forward.

If you want to eliminate  procrastination you have to look into Amor Fati. Apart from laziness and other factors which we discussed the more important reason for procrastination is not having the will to accept the past and the future events. When you think about the past failures and begin to take a negative life or think about the past glories and begin to go beyond your power in the future both are extremes and the former will make you procrastinate more since you know that you future is going through the same as your past, the latter is good but the percentage of meeting the extraordinary is less and the failure from that would be more negative. Amor fati is  a balancing act which is being used by stoicism school of philosophy, this is an attitude in which the person moves in life at the same pace and accepts both success and failures as equal. This might urge us to ask  the question Should we live like  robots? The answer  is no. We as human being have been doing two things either regretting the past or worrying about the future but not living the happy life in the present, since present in the only thing which is in our control and it can be shaped by us. The Past cannot be changed and the future is not in our control but the present is in your hand.