For the sake of your sanity, do not buy into this extremely flawed way of thinking.
If you were to believe the mainstream tripe about mental health, you’d be running back to your childhood for everything and blaming your parents for all your failures in life.
The irony of this claim about procrastination and laziness is that they both have a very simple, yet easy to overcome root cause.
You either believe in the value of what you’re doing, or you don’t.
If you don’t, the only reason you will do it is because there will be unpleasant consequences if you don’t do it. That’s why we leave things until we have no choice but to do it when we approach it as if it’s a punishment for living.
It’s this same reason that inspires us to look forward to our day, or to drag ourselves out of bed, regardless of how much sleep we got the night before.
The reasons for struggling to see the value in doing something requires self awareness and mindfulness.
But given that both are lost when we blame our past for our present failings, we further sabotage our efforts to connect with life in a more meaningful way.
Please, for the love of sanity and common sense, stop buying into the mindless crap presented as research about mental health.
Give yourself a fighting chance by simply understanding why you have good reason in your own mind to be averse to doing things that you know will be beneficial for you.
We’ve overcomplicated life and then reframed that complexity to be mental health.
We need to reclaim our humanness and the very real human experiences that give us reason to feel emotional duress from time to time.
It’s all part of being human.
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Procrastination is not a mental illness
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Seize the moment…not the day
Tomorrow is not just another day.
Tomorrow is simply today again, only with less time than we had yesterday.
If you’re not focused on what you need to achieve today, you’ll always be trying to finish what you should’ve done yesterday.
That’s how procrastination and misplaced optimism wastes away a good life.
By all means, pace yourself so that you don’t burn out.
But don’t become complacent in the process.
Don’t wait for inspiration to strike.
Inspiration most often hits you in the process of creating something amazing, not in the moments of over thinking what needs to be created.
Show up.
Get started.
Seize the day.
Tomorrow is never guaranteed.
Procrastination doesn’t only steal time, it also steals your dreams.
Embracing your passion in the absence of validation can be quite a powerful source of self-doubt.
Believe in yourself, otherwise how can you expect others to believe in what you’re creating?
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Tomorrow is not promised
Too often we remind others that tomorrow is not guaranteed, yet we live our lives as if we have all the time in the world to make that next big decision, or to do right by others.
If tomorrow is not guaranteed, neither is your next breath.
When our thoughts about life remain philosophy, and our reality remains detached, we create a tension within our soul that only we can remedy.
We live life either looking for what is possible, or we live it by looking for why everything is a struggle.
Whichever of the two you seek, you will find.
Mindfulness will offer you the opportunity to take the best of the present, so that the yoke of the past won’t weigh you down with worry for the future.
You owe it to yourself and to those who look to you for inspiration. But if you’re not living in the present moment, you won’t notice them either.
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Celebrate Life
It’s that time of the year when everyone is talking about resolutions for change in their lives, and many are judging me for not giving a damn about the fuss. Don’t click away yet. This is not a rant or a pity party. It’s a genuine attempt to offer you an alternate perspective on all of this.
It’s easy to assume that I’m jaded for not feeling festive in the festive season, or for not counting down the seconds to the new year. But I’m not jaded. In fact, I’d like to argue that people who do celebrate such token events are in fact the jaded ones. No, really, read on before dismissing this.
There are two ways of considering what it means to be jaded. The first and more common view is someone that finds little reason to celebrate life. The other view suggests that it is someone that sticks to routine from fear of facing the unknown. I’m neither. But most of you are either one or both. Here’s why.
Routine is not only a daily thing. It’s any cycle that is fixed. So when you plan your life around these fixed cycles, you lose spontaneity, and you lose creativity, both of which are core to living with passion. So when you wait for an occasion to present itself before you celebrate life, you’re in a routine. You wait for birthdays before making someone feel special, or you wait for new year’s day before declaring your desire to improve your life.
What if you didn’t wait. What if you didn’t live long enough for the next occasion that you were planning to celebrate? What then? The unexpected gift, to others or to yourself, is far more intriguing and appreciated than the gift planned for a year in advance. The sense of entitlement and the sense of disappointment that goes with a specific occasion when it is celebrated or forgotten respectively, undermines good relationships, and wastes a good life.
The fact that the majority of celebrated occasions are simply token dates marked on a calendar without any substance further confirms its superficial nature. Go out of your way to break the routine and show your sincerity in a deliberate act of appreciation or gratitude, and not one prompted by a calendar reminder, and see how much deeper your connection with people will be.
Celebrate because you have privileges and options that you take for granted every other day. Celebrate because you felt heartened by an unexpected gesture or a sense of good fortune. Celebrate because you have excess that you can share with others. If you’re reading this, then celebrate because you have more than probably 60% of the world’s population.
Waiting for someone to give you permission to celebrate the good in your life is no different to waiting for a specific date before acknowledging the gift of someone in your life. Be spontaneous. Be sincere. Just don’t be shallow and follow the herd.
Who’s jaded now?
