How do I stop procrastinating?

Procrastination is a sign of loneliness. You don’t procrastinate unless you feel tired or lonely. Its like playing the piano and half way through the song you forget the next note because it reminds you of someone no longer here. You can’t alternate or fake your interest in something. Let me get this straight there is a reason eight mile the movie is recognized by every artist out there because we all know there is only one shot in life. We only got one shot and this clock it doesn’t quit. It spins. It weaves. It cries. It ticks away our age and hopelessness like a crying child.

What you should do is limit what you do. Ah…but that sounds like a catering to procrastination. Wrong. There is one thing we should focus on. One thing we should chase like a firefly in the dead of night. We should chase to brighten our life not bring about this endless trail of tomorrows that fall meaningless between our fingers.

“Every great change starts like falling dominoes.” — BJ Thornton

If you feel that you are only spending fifty percent of your time doing what you want. Its time to rip those dominoes down. Start with one and watch them fall like pieces of your life. Formulate a plan or go based on your heart. Jump. Leap. Or crawl to the starting line. But start you must. Pick something. Pick that one thing you are passionate about. Words? Music? Art? Math? Science? Family?

Spend those wasted minutes on producing an activity that feels less like time wasting away and feels more like the products of your own design. Procrastination is boredom on crack. When you think about it we are bored because we lose interest.

“It ain ’t what you don ’t know that gets you into trouble. It’ s what you know for sure that just ain ’t so.” — Mark Twai

With all this extra time we are forced to find stuff to fill the void. Most use cellphones, television, or any other type of filler to insure that they are occupied during any second of doubt. What I like to do is fill my time producing something, anything, and taking that time to fully succumb to whatever it is even if its reading.

Your question is age old but the answer has changed with the melding of our society. We have come to take technology as our distractions of choice. Drugs as a way to pass our time. The new iPhone is the new want not the new need. Thus we became a society of wants instead of needs because of our boredom.