Do the math. Let’s say you are 20yrs old already! Then you have a
whooping 20 years more. In football, one will say you are at the “half time”
period of your life. From your perspective, life is just getting started. You have
time; you can always do whatever you want to whenever you deem fit. You can
always take it easy, no rushing. No pressure. No qualms. In reality, you are half way done. Life is like
a Blackberry battery, better still, a Nokia battery. As soon as you disconnect the
charger, it starts discharging, running low and low, depending on the
activities, until it is flat and out. Of
course, some maximize this battery life while available: quality phone calls, presentations,
publishing, sharing, ads, quick searches and look-ups, what have you. Others do other things which just make the
phone go hot!
To have a goal is good, to pursue it is better, and to do so
on time is the best. You cannot continue
to push tasks off to the last possible minutes. If you think it is stressful to
do it now, wait till when you settle to do it later and find out how much pressure has mounted. Executing your idea may
seem overwhelming and stressful, pushing it forward only compounds you
woe. Your future is created by what you
do today, not tomorrow. The old mantra says “Don’t leave for tomorrow what you
can do today”. I’ll rather kill today’s trouble than push it forward, and add
it up to tomorrow’s. If it is worth the
effort, then you shouldn’t wait.
The gospel truth is, the longer you procrastinate, the lower
your self esteem gets. The sense of fulfillment is not there. Self-doubt creeps
in at will. The odds are higher that you may not get to do what you ought to do
as you allow time tick by. Start! Dive in first. Something tells me the farther you go,
the more committed you’ll get. Come to think of it, I procrastinated writing
this blog. Occasionally I just drifted away. I even left it completely for
Wordosaur the other time. See! The easy things are always really not worth it after
all.
Quick appraisal: What were the targets you set for yourself,
say, 1st of January this year? How many have you seen through? Did you
truly pursue them? Some of them do not
take 8 months to achieve, remember? You’ve still got more than enough time
before the year runs out….”maybe not”.
You only live once. Sad enough, most people utter this as a
defense for the reckless life they lead; the easy escape route. It is the
perfect excuse to waste life. You only
live once, but the impact you have could be eternal. Solutions you bring may be
unquantifiable. Time is of essence. Time
is a resource, manage it. Idle time seems to pass more slowly than occupied
time. In reality the time ticks seconds after seconds. It is our perception of
time that differs.
Do something,
it’s almost midnight.
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