My biggest flaw as a person is probably my laziness. No, not laziness-my tendency to procrastinate on literally everything. When I put my mind to something, I’m a perfectionist, and if it’s not quite right, I’m not happy. I’m not sloppy or lazy in my actual work- but I loooooooove to procrastinate. If I can do something tomorrow and sleep now, well, it’s nap time. I avoid things and put them off until it becomes a problem. Why? If it’s not a problem in the first place, why turn it in to one? Then, I found this lovely piece by Leo Babauta at Zen Habits that really spoke to me. Here’s his advice to stop procrastinating today:
Identify the most important thing you have to do today.
Decide to do just the first little part of it — just the first minute, or even 30 seconds of it. Getting started is the only thing in the world that matters. Sit there, and focus on getting started. Pay attention to your mind, as it starts to have urges to switch to another task. Let each one pass.
Notice also your mind trying to justify not doing the task. Also let these self-rationalizing thoughts pass.
Just start.
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