THE ONE THING I NEED TO WORK ON TO HAVE A MORE PRODUCTIVE LIFE

As humans, there is always a need to be a better version of ourselves because we were not wired to be perfect. However, there might be some traits we possess and discover an active need to terminate or curb, maybe due to the fact that it’s hindering one’s growth or any other reason. The discovery of the problem is the first step to solving it, right?

Personally, I have been trying to work on procrastination because procrastination they say, is an enemy of progress. Most times, I even have the perfect excuses for not doing things when i’m meant to. This has affected me in various ways and have also taken a lot of opportunities away from me. I also discovered that a lot of people complain of procrastination, but I also want to believe that some might be worse than others.

I think my level of procrastination is not so severe, though no level of it is healthy in any way. There are times I push myself to do things, but then, I realized that I get distracted easily. I think and overthink about a million things at the same time and this messes up my productivity because I wouldn’t even know where to start from. I just automatically procrastinate to do those things when my head is calmer (delusional thought, btw)

When the year started, I had to bring myself that it’s actually just another day but with a date worth celebrating on the calendar. I had to make myself realize that even if I am pumped to write down goals and plans for the year and not work actively towards it, I might just be repeating the same pattern and I definitely do not want that. I am not an unserious person, and I know that if I can eliminate this one thing from my life, I will grow in a way that will shock even me.

I started journaling! To help myself through to the process and actively work towards living a better, productive life. So far, I have been trying to track the way I feel about things and why I feel that way about those things. I write my plans down and ways to achieve them. Even if I don’t end of achieving it, I still try to figure out why and also write it down so as to know the next step to take.

I am gradually putting an end to overthinking, so as to have a clearer mind to process the things I need to do. Instead of getting my head clogged up, I try to talk about what I’m feeling like to friends and my family members. This has been helping me greatly because I beat myself up less nowadays. That one has affected me a lot on the past. I used to get angry at myself a lot about not doing things, and that anger still doesn’t led to anything significant. It just puts me in this mental state where I just get to like scold myself continuously, ruin my own mood, and end up curled up in bed doing nothing.

The first step I have deduced to help me through this is to be kind to myself and beat myself up less. The next is to journal to put my thoughts down. The next is to break down the things I have to do that is bothering or likely to bother my mind. The next is to start from one, and move to the next, and to the next. Also, instead of thinking about doing it, I’ll just do it! The trick is to TAKE ACTION and not just talk or think about it.

Thanks for reading❤️