Sunday, February 1, 2009

Stretching over an essay on procrastination

My essay on time-management is divided into:

Defining procrastination
Putting it into context (its universal)
Why it is dangerous


I conclude with a battle cry that rings out about the benefits of alarm clocks throughout the day. My action item for everyone is simply to get up & fight.

In our streams of thought - people tend to over think themselves into terrible scenarios of what could happen if they did, what it is they are supposed to do. A task - that may seem daunting. The fear is of failure. Tendency then makes abandon what we're supposed to do.

The whole thinking process is procrastination, once fear affects rationality & subdues all sense into "No, its not going to work out" we back out. Later, one may regret, or maybe things will turn out differently & one will be able to say, “heck, I didn't do what I could have - but things now aren't so bad, what difference would it have made? The difference is, that you'll never know, because you never tried - but now sitting around to think about what could have happened - is procrastinating all over again. Ultimately, its about not getting bogged down into apathy & our personal zones of idiosyncratic meditating upon.

Thoughts, feelings & ideas must be broken down & molded into preparations on what one needs to do, the solution is, waking up in the morning to make sure it happens before one starts turning bitter.

I'm reading Malcolm Gladwells's new book, The Outliers. A part that struck me in his writings goes so - "A man who wakes up at dawn for 365 days a year cannot fail to make his family rich." I suppose to put it similarly, if you know what you can do & what you need to do about what you really want or believe in, wake up & work it through. Work at it hard enough, long enough & most importantly, be smart about how you are going about it.

Malcolm Gladwell’s book is interesting because he’s talking about how successful people don’t get things done of their own, but with the help & belief of the people that life surrounds themselves with.

In school our English Literature book had a story of an Athenian called Theseus, I don't remember much of the story, but in his adventures, Theseus met a man, his name was Procrustus, & he was called, "The Stretcher".

3 comments:

Aadishpa said...

very well written....one thing i disagree with though....the whole breaking thoughts feelings and ideas to be broken down into parts. they come as a whole package. and thats how you're supposed to take them or they can be very confusing. just my opinion.

Aadishpa said...

i would prefer the language being toned down a LITTLE actually. its very well written but too complex for somebody who isnt a writer to read.

Pradeep Rajendran said...

sounds good. I need to keep it simple in both things your saying. I'll work things through.