Tuesday, September 27, 2022
You have decades to reach those goals. You have eons to get those projects done. Later seems to be better than now. We’re time-rich when it comes to thinking down the road, but when it’s time for the rubber to actually hit the road, we’re time-poor. “I’ll get to it tomorrow.” This is the lie of a procrastinator. We have only the present moment, which never feels like enough time, which never feels like the right time. But is the future actually a better time?
The future never arrives. The future is deceptive, because when it arrives, it’s actually the present moment. And remember, the present moment feels time-poor! It lulls you into thinking that tomorrow is a better time to get something done. Maybe it will be, but usually it’s not. When tomorrow arrives, it will be today, and you’ll still feel like not doing it.
The present moment is overlooked by the procrastinator. It’s never a good time to spend or to save money. It’s never a good time to take a first step or to start a new habit. The good times are in the future for the procrastinator! But why does the future get to have all of the right moments? It’s the small, micro-actions, the initiations that matter. It’s that dollar you save, that one sit-up that you do, that small paragraph that you read, that initial step that you take, or that tiny change that you make. The future is not the right time, NOW is the right time – where reality actually exists. A productive person believes in the leverages, the small advantages of today. A procrastinator foolishly believes that tomorrow will be a better time to start. Now is the best time. This is and always will be true.