(originally published April 15th, 2005)<\/p>\n
This is tax day, and as I write this, I wonder how many people are rushing through their last minute preparations in getting their tax forms completed and in the mail before midnight.<\/p>\n
What is it about having to pay taxes that makes us procrastinate? Well, what is it that makes most people procrastinate about anything? Does the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fear\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mean anything to anyone?<\/p>\n
People procrastinate because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to do something. Though most won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t own up to it, the main reason for procrastination is fear. If you have to do something that you know, or feel, won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t turn out well, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll procrastinate. If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to do something because you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to know the answer, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a type of fear.<\/p>\n
Think about it this way. If someone called you and said if you came downstairs now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d earn $10,000, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get up from your desk and go get it. If someone you always wanted to go out with suddenly called you up and asked you out, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d go in a heartbeat. People don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t procrastinate all the time; they pick and choose what they want to deal with or not deal with based on their own parameters and comfort levels.<\/p>\n
To overcome procrastination, you have to be willing to stand up to whatever your fear happens to be concerning the action. As Nike says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just Do It.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d However, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still feeling as though you wish to continue procrastinating, click on this link and learn the Procrastinator\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Creed; after all, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to do something, which in this case is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not\u00e2\u20ac\u009d do something, you might as well learn how to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not\u00e2\u20ac\u009d do it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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