Third Week -2 (Class)

Procrastination: My greatest weakness of all times!

It looks as if procrastination is almost embedded in human nature by default. Still somehow few succumb to it more than others do. I am one of the victims of heavy procrastination.

The worst part is: even after identifying my problem, I am not able to improve upon it. That is mostly because I blame myself for the procrastination I do, instead I must view it as a problem generated from events in life. This is the only way to improve upon it.

We learned in class, how we must avoid procrastination in order to plan our act and then act on plan.There are many techniques I learned in the class and then from my search on internet I found many tools which can help me with avoiding procrastination.

I also learned one more thing about the social and competitive approach of Indian parents which must change now so that we can produce better and more efficient minds. Indian parents always refer to the person, while dealing with their kids in case of time management, instead to the problem. Indian families are nit very closely, which has advantages and disadvantages. A child grows up in a healthy and family oriented environment and learns better with friends among the family. The disadvantage is the unwanted pressure of competition among cousins which makes it difficult for an average kid to cope with. Indian parenting style always foster the competition and builds the pressure and which in the end unintentionally pushes the child into a nexus of high competition-fear of failure-procrastination-failure. This, over a period of time, develop into a vicious cycle and then in the adult age, procrastination becomes a subconscious or almost unconscious attribute of an average Indian mind.

Its high time now that future parents must study this pattern before hand so that they can divert this vicious cycle into a virtuous one.

I am very determined to improve on my habit of procrastination and then removing it finally in the end. I am using all the tools for time management so that I get used to them and then can improve my performance. No doubt, it's very difficult, but constant effort is the key.

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
-- Winston Churchill