6. Let Go Of Procrastination!

We think that if have no bad habits like smoking, we are doing everything else perfectly right. Did you know that we all have a secret mental addiction?

This addiction leads us to do all kinds of things. We will deny that we have any addiction at all.

Listen now. We are addicted to postponing every minute. We have acquired the taste of postponing every task. We have created a mindset that allows us to put off everything. Yes, this is our secret addiction procrastination.

Listen to the chatter of our mind. It is always busy collecting arguments, or listing reasons about why we should postpone some tasks. It has such power over us that we will never enter into the act itself. There are many things, for which we say we shall do that tomorrow. The tomorrow becomes another tomorrow and continues to grow and that tomorrow never happens.

We can accomplish a task if we decide to do it today. Some of us are skilled and confidant veterans in this game. We have tasks that will never get done, if ever.

A small story:

A man went to the master and asked, 'When will I become enlightened?'

The master said, 'Now.'

The disciple asked, 'Now? How can I become enlightened now? I need a lot of practice. It needs many methods. It needs hours of meditation. How can it be now?'

The master said, 'Never.'

Do you understand the story? It is the story of how the mind works or tricks us. If we think something can be done now, we have the power to make it happen now. If we think that something needs time, it will automatically take time, that's all. Remember this story whenever the mind says: you are not good enough. You are not complete by yourself. You are not full by yourself.

The mind will always tell us the same thing. It has always been telling us the same thing. Today our mind will say: do that meditation, do this meditation, practice, practice this. Only then you will get enlightened, and what not.

Tomorrow it will tell something different. It never lets us feel that we have reached somewhere or that we have achieved something. Couple this with the idea of procrastination and you have the perfect recipe for disaster.

This secret addiction that is procrastination is the root cause for all our problems like lack of confidence, anger, everything. When we procrastinate, we get into a lot of trouble and we end up with all these emotions.

Just decide today that you will not procrastinate. If you feel the tendency to procrastinate coming up, just ignore it and jump into action immediately. Show a red card to your mind. Once you taste life without procrastination, you will never procrastinate again in life.