A Mom’s Life Made Simple

I don’t know about the rest of you but I am a huge procrastinator. I didn’t use to be but after having kids and living with my fiance who lives by procrastination I believe it has rubbed off on me. There is a song out right now by Mary j blige and Musiq soul child called “if you leave”in the beginning he says “you think I procrastinate but I think I’m taking my time”  I kid you not this song was the best thing to happen to my fiance he now lives by those words! Thanks Musiq and Mary J I just don’t know what I would do without your help! (smile) Sure procrastination isn’t a huge deal if it isn’t hurting anyone but if you really think about the situation it always ends up hurting someone. Whether it’s waiting until the last minute to do the dishes or putting off fixing that leaky pipe. Eventually a small problem becomes a huge problem which affects everyone. My downfall is cleaning. That’s why I am trying hard to focus on that. I see something that needs to be cleaned but put it off day to day and by the time I am ready to clean it the mess has become huge and overwhelming. Here is a great piece on procrastination. (from cafemom but written by Joel Teo)

Being successful in life is everyone’s goal. But most of us fail to avail the golden chances and opportunities, life presents us. The major reason behind this is we become victims of procrastination. Procrastination is a synonym for laziness. We get so lazy sometimes that we think that we have a long time to accomplish the task, knowing the task can take more time we assumed. Then we tend to do work in last moments and most of people fail to hold their patience and get tensed to that extent that they make situations worse or do the things in a wrong or ineffective manner. After that we mourn over our procrastination but now nothing can be restored. Thus, to emerge successful one needs to get rid of procrastination and this than be done in following manner:

First of all if you feel you are victim of procrastination you need to get organized. Get organized from today. The best way to start is with your room. Organize your room, your time, your life and your things. The sense of organization will bring stability in you and you will tend to stay organized, thus every time you see anything out of order, you will place it in a proper place. Slowly with passage of time you will imbibe a order in you, helping you to overcome your procrastination.

The next thing is to make a routine. Take your monthly planner with you and write down your short term as well as long term goals and also jot down ways to accomplish these tasks. Make a habit of doing the things as mentioned in your routine and make sure to mention even minor things like ironing of clothes in your routine. Though initially, you will find it hard to follow the routine but once if you started sticking to it, you will dwell the habit of doing things at specified period of time. This will help you in accomplishing your goals in a timely manner and thus you get rid of habit of not doing work on time. Drawing your future plans holds another advantage too. Earlier you had no work to do and could sit idle for hours but if you know what you need to do before hand, a pressure will always be there on you to do the things in timely manner, otherwise your other work will hamper.

Along with planning, managing your time in a productive manner always help you get rid of procrastination. You need to finish the tasks in the allotted time period and this organizes your lifestyle. Moreover, if you start managing your time well you will be always left with plenty of time at the end of day allowing you to carry other activities which was not feasible earlier due to your procrastination.

The most important aspect to get rid of your procrastination is to build just do it attitude. Always think it’s now or never whenever you feel like skipping the work or task that needs to be accomplished and you will always get rid of procrastination.