Inspirational

    A number of years ago, an aspiring writer interviewed Thomas J. Watson, the President of IBM. Watson gave him this advice: “would you like me to give you a formula for writing success, it’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure”

“You are making a common mistake. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. Failure is a teacher - a harsh one perhaps, but the best. You say you have a desk full of rejected manuscripts? That’s great! Every one of those manuscripts was rejected for a reason. Have you pilled them to pieces looking for that reason?

You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So, go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find sucess. On the far side of failure”

   When you learn to take life by each passing day, each passing hour, each passing moment, you will indeed realize that life is short. Yes it is. We are not eternal. Only God is. No matter our vision and plan, we have a time frame to make it happen. Even in societies with advanced health and medical care, life still has a limit. No wonder a wise man once cried out ” So teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of understanding”.

Since life is so short, there is only one meaningful thing to do with it - INVEST IT.It’s possible to waste it.Many people do.
They squander their lives with drug addiction, smoking, too much TV, too much sleep and the likes. Some others just go through life as they come. Those are the type that ask the day where it has gone.

To get the best of life, do not waste time.Do not spend it. INVEST IT IN THINGS THAT WILL OUTLAST YOU.

I would just briefly discuss 2 causes of Procrastination since most of us i believe understand what it means;

The Fear of Failure:
     
The fear of failure is a major cause of procrastination. In fact all forms of procrastination have some kind of fear at its roots. The fear of failure is a common fear we all share. As human beings, we are not designed to fail. We are designed to consistently progress and improve. This fear then keeps you locked up in procrastination as a way of keeping you from failing.
The effect of this form of procrastination then is quite obvious: failure to utilize opportunities. If you don’t act on opportunities they aren’t really opportunities are they? It is never a case of whether opportunity is knocking, but rather a case of whether you are acting on this opportunity and utilizing it.

Feeling Overwhelmed:

We all have a limited mental and emotional capacity. Just like your physical capacity, you have a limit to what you can take on at any given time, and only you know what that limit is. When you overload yourself physically, your body usually breaks down in some form or another. When you overload yourself mentally or emotionally, your mind will intervene, usually in the form of procrastination, to keep you from a ‘mental overload’. The effect of this form of procrastination is that you start to avoid tasks, especially the important ones that you know you ‘must’ do.