[I]“If one allows a problem to endure for a month or a day, or even for a few minutes, it distorts the mind.” [/I]- Krishnamurti
I am guilty of this. I needed to write this as a call to act on a very difficult task that must be done now. It will be painful for me and several others, but more painful if left undone.
Done. Instead of an increase of pain, the pain in my heart, chest, stomach, and head is gone.
A bit of Irony but I have spent a lot of time of late thinking about procrastination as it has applied to my life up until now
How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’. ~ Martin Luther
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going… Concentrate on something useful. ~ Arnold Bennett
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene ~ Edward Young
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. ~ Wayne Gretzky
Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. ~ Victor Kiam
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ~ Bruce Lee
If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible. ~ Bruce Lee
Procrastination is the biggest of obstacles we face in life. If you master this, you master life.
Sigh. OK, I’m going. I popped in here to avoid prepping for my class tomorrow and marking the papers that are sitting in front of me. I got the message.
Flex, I’m glad you feel better. Sorry though that you had to do something you dreaded so much.
Does it ever tickle your fancy how the universe sends you the message you need just as you need it? (Or in my case the kick in the rump you need?)
Agreed. I can’t say i’ve mastered it. But life can end in a heart beat, and one may not be using our time or making the most of it as proftably as one could.
I think knowing it can end any minute makes it easier to let some things go or not hang on.Helps puts things in perspective as to what matters and what may be less important. One of the 5 kleshas is not fearing death, or having any illusions about it.Perhaps that could be also linked to not squandering the time you’ve got because you realise it is finite.I think that when a lot of folk die their life flashes before them just near the point of death like in one continuum and they may make some kind of re-assessment of it in it’s entirety in terms of it’s worth and value. I’ve actually experienced this, though not dying of course.I think i saw a tunnel too right ahead of me though that could have been my consciousness just fading. But it was certainly a wake-up call or kick up the back-side,like i was not ready to die (accidental drug-overdose) and spiritual experience.There was certainly that sense of ‘heyy, this is too soon’.I managed to come to,forcibly woke myself up from it, and went for a brisk long walk.
Either fulfill your desires, or create no attachment that begets procrastination.
Well… never mind…I post it later 