IF TOMORROW COMES - procrastination in disguise

This is weeks Hive Naija prompts is a serious one because it really got me thinking for a long period of time before i put all my thoughts together and find a way to put them into writing.

I have many habits which some are good that people can covet but I have one particular one that has always almost put me in troubles every time and trust me, i have tried times without numbers to see how i can sort it out but it looks as if we have been turned to sand and salt which can not be separated even when you try to separate. You would be wondering what that habit could be that seems to be hard to let go or find a solution to but dont think about it too much because the habit is PROCRASTINATION.

This whole procrastination started when i was a kid where i get to postpone my readings (be it school textbooks, normal book reading etc) or doing little things in the house such as postponing to wash plate, clothes, clean the environment etc. One of the experiences or one of the troubles i got into because of procrastination was when my brother's wife was in her final year and needed to write her final year project before her convocation but at this time i had grown up. She reached out to me and i charged her for the fee so has to help with the project.

She asked me to get her project proposal which should not take me more than 2days to provide since i am not a novice in what she asked me to do but based on the habit that have refused to leave me which actually took two weeks before i handed over the proposal. As if that was not enough, i even thought it will end there because she was not happy and her supervisor was really mad at her and scolded her (she would have shouted at me but you know naw, i am her husband's brother. Lol).

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How to stop procrastination
Based on my little research about procrastination, i found out that it is actually laziness or slothfulness but procrastination was the name that was used to cover it. That means whoever is going through procrastination should sort out laziness and procrastination will disappear which is the antidote. It is not procrastination that is deadly but laziness. So, in other words, i was too lazy.

- You sort out laziness by doing what you know you are meant to do.
- You do what you are meant to do by setting time for each task.
- Your tasks are carried out by the order of priority.

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So, i was asked to drop the chapter one, two, three of the project which i did at the speed of light because even if she did not complain the way she should but it is a normal thing for me to repent and do the needful which i did. But when it got to chapter four and five, then my procrastination (laziness) habit ressurected even when i thought i had buried it which almost caused a rift between my brother and i because it was becoming too much for his wife all in the name of the lashing she was getting from her supervisor and i was not making things easier because of my laziness called procrastination.

At the end, she had to take the project to another person to help her finish up. I am not writing this prompt with the intention of what i did was right. Sometimes i even pray that that event never happened because trust was destroyed but she was kind enough to let go.

This is my entry to this week's Hive Naija.
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