What is procrastination?
I confess, I am a procrastinator myself. Then I learned mindfulness and knew I do not have to be. So If I would be brutally honest, and you wants the truth I would say there is nothing called procrastination. There is no thing as such when we look at the world with dr Seuss eyes, as an example what you felt yesterday about postponing your work was, procrastination number 43278 and today it is 43279 it is not even the same feeling and not a little bit of yesterdays procrastination is there today. Have you thought about this? If you really want to pull out the procrastination tree from your garden, it will be a long journey of self discovery to its roots through mindfulness, which might take years. But we do not have to do that, as I am going to tell you one important fact to beat the procastination. For this we can stick to the norms and we can assume there is a thing called procrastination and your are stuck with this. Let's start with why?
How to eat our 🐸 frogs?
I can remember when I read the book by Brian Tracy About eating the frogs. The concept is, if your tasks are frogs which you are procrastinating about, you should eat them. They are not going to be tasty I know. You should swallow it whole like a snake, first thing in the morning when you are at your most productive self. Just like me now. And you should not even think about it. And once you swallow your biggest toad rest would be easy. And there are hundred odd tips in the book for you to try.
Patagotitan Mayorum
But over the years due to chronic procrastination my toads have grown into African Bullfrogs. Like little bison calves, and I am sure its going to hurt if I tried to swallow them. Then I thought, why I should eat frogs. I am not a f**** lizard. Maybe I am just a herbivorous innocent deer. Did you go to a safari lately? Even herbivorous animals grow into gigantic size. There is potential to growth, even if you do not eat toads everyday. You can grow into a Patagotitan mayorum, a huge dinosaur that they discovered in 2014 just by eating grass and leaves. And that is the wisdom I gained by reading the book. Its not about eating toads, 😕 when you do not like it, but asking the question whether you are carnivorous or herbivorous.
The main reason for anyone to procrastinate is that they are inherently disgusting. Like frogs. And also you are not a snake! There are so many tasks that you do not procrastinate. Atleast in your mind you know what you can eat! It doesn't matter it is grass or honey or leaves that your prefer than toads. You have to start doing that instead of trying to eat frogs. Imagine anyone doing something they do not like inherently, and they are going to suffer. If a teacher doesn't like to teach shes going to procrastinate. That doesn't mean she is not procastinating on writing a poem and reading. She wouldn't procrastinate if she was in a library!
How to defeat Procrastination mindfulness way.
There was a nice post shared on this subject sometime ago. And it was about our education which ask us to climb trees when all of us are not monkeys. Some of us can fly, some of us can swim, some can run and some can just think. If we all race to mars nobody would be here to drive us to work. So if procrastination is a problem for you lately, I suggest you contemplate your life holistically. Maybe a walk on the beach and a dopamine detox would help you to just do that.
Imagine the progress we can gain if we are in just optimal place which suits our character. And that will end the endless hours wasted addicted to our screens. That is the secret to defeat procrastination mindfully.
Question is are you ready to eat your bullfrog? Or you want to throw that away?
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