Thank God it's Friday! Hope you have some fun and relaxing events lined up for the weekend. Remember all work and no play makes Jack not only dull, but irritable, cranky, moody and stressed up.
Today, I'd like to talk about the "P" word from another angle.
It's one thing to procrastinate once, it's another to do it over and over again.
Let me give you an example.
Tola woke up with a jolt "Oh dear Lord, It's 7:00am, whatever happened to this my alarm clock?" It was Monday morning and she had a presentation at work for 8am. She is a young but successful chartered accountant who works as an internal auditor for one of the largest producers of consumer products in the country whose factory is in Ibadan. As she yawned and got out of bed, she remembered she needed to put finishing touches to her slides, she wanted to do it the night before but she was so tired from doing her night chores that she slept off in the living room. "I'll wake up by 5am and get it done in time for work" she had told herself, yawned then dozed off. Now it is 7:05am the next day and she was in a mad dash for the bathroom. On her way to the bathroom, she saw her phone lying somewhere between her pillow and the frame of the bed, she made a mental note to pick it up when she got out of the bathroom.
After a quick cold shower, she dressed up and grabbed her bag, her laptop and car keys and was on her way out when her husband, she got married just three months ago, called out to remind her she hadn't said her prayers.
"I'll do that in the car" she said, "love you hon, have a lovely day". On her way to work, she got a call from her sister, Lape. Lape was at the university and needed some money. Tola put the phone on hands free mode and they had the conversation all the way to work.
She got to work about 30 minutes later and while in the elevator, though to herself "Thank God I don't live in that mad house called Lagos, I'd have been in serious soup this morning".
She quickly settled in and started the needed corrections on her slides. When she got to slide 23, she remembered she needed to add some information from a text message she received from her colleague in Lagos two days earlier. Tola reached for her bag, rummaging through, searching for her phone, then it hit her, the mental image of her phone resting in peace somewhere between her pillow and the frame of the bed.
She rubbed her fore head with one hand and her neck with the other, her muscles tensed all of a sudden. She hadn't even read the text properly, if she had, maybe she would have been able to recall some of those figures. Picking up her table top phone, she was about to call her husband to ask if he was still at home when Susan, her secretary, peeped into her office and said "ma'am, it's time for the meeting, everyone, including the GM is seated and waiting for you"
Your guess is as good as mine on how the rest of Tola's day went. Maybe I'll share that some other time.
To conquer procrastination, we must learn to do it if we can, while we can and not keep pushing it till the next time. Once you remember what needs to be done, do it. If you can't do it at that particular time, write it down on a sheet of paper, set a timeline for it and paste it where you will definitely see it. This would save you a lot of stress, tight muscles and anxiety.
That's it for now
till next time,
stay BeYoutiful!
xx
Olubunmi
NB
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