working Tomorrow for a better Today

Monday the exercise was postponed because I expected rain and didn't want to ruin my motivation due to bad weather condition. Who wants to get sick on the first day of becoming a marathon champion!  Also, I wanted to buy new running shoes, so need to go shopping first. 

I didn't find any Spanish teacher at Jalandhar. 

Saturday morning my alarm was on snooze and the whole day I was browsing at Internet and Netflix, uploaded new season of the favourite show which obviously I have to see first, so books will wait.

Procrastination is making my days dull and, I end up feeling that I have no control over my life and environment around me is toxic, and still... it's so hard to escape from this “will do it later” trap. Occasionally, we all postpone something to the last moment and it doesn't make us chronical procrastinators, but once this habit grows into a lifestyle,  it affects core personality and social life, gives more troubles than pleasure. My reasons for procrastination lie in not believing in the importance of the task and periodic laziness. I discover a few remedies that help me to get things done.

I prioritize the tasks into categories: Urgent and Important, Urgent and Not Important, Important and Not Urgent and Not Important and Not Urgent. Spanish came under Not Important and Not Urgent by the way, next to the Netflix weekend bonanza. Some important task seem unachievable, for example, I broke my goal to become a marathon runner into small milestones – got membership of gym and trying to keep up with my easily achievable weekly fitness target to burn 1800 calories at cardio section. According to the methodology of David Allen, an American expert on personal productivity, most of the things which we have to do but put off can be done in less than 2 minutes. It's important just to get started. It happens that decision to exercise can be started straight away. Still, feel lazy sometimes, but do keep coming back on the track.

There is no such a thing as 'right mood' for most of the tasks. With time I learn the ability to function efficiently despite the mood I am right now. I can work on my laptop while flying or being in the hospital, or cook dinner and entertain my guests even when I worry about something. Concentration on the task and focus to finish it helps to stop irrelevant worries and destructive thoughts. And once, what I consider before as tough is done, the satisfaction level helps to sort other problems in a more effective way.