In my 20 years of serving the world, procrastination had always been the bane for an organized life.
Even when in primary school...
secondary school,
foundation,
uni...
And I'm sure, a lot of people will say the same thing..
Fact is, there is just no running away from procrastination..
But the bad thing is, we know that it is bad...So, why do we do it?
I think the easiest answer within, is that:
We never learn (Tak sedar sedar diri la katakan)
So, what is procrastination?
Procrastination, put it simply, is delaying things. Delaying our homework. Delaying our job. Delaying our duties..
Thing is, life revolves around a chain of events, and is thus subjected to the chain rule, in that a small change in one thing will affect a sequence of events that come after it.
So procrastinating in one thing, will have an effect on the events that follow later on. In an analogy, it is like dominoes...
You push the first one too slow, the rest falls slowly. You push the first one hard, and the rest falls hard.
So, why is procrastination the thief of time?
Imagine, in a day, we have a few events. Let's say, in a day, we rise, bathe, go to 3 classes, come back home, cook, eat, do homework, sleep.
So in effect, we have only 24 hours to do all that..
Let's say, we bathe for 30 minutes (accounting for girls of course. =p). If we delay the time we take to rise from the bed (like turning off our alarms, tossing and turning in bed) for about 10 minutes, we take up an extra 10 minutes of bathing. Which means that ideally, we can only bathe for 20 mins.
..but we still bathe for 30 mins, which means we delay the time to take the bus.
....so we arrive at the bus stop 10 mins late, the next bus comes in another 15 mins..
..so after 15 mins, we go to class. We're late for class because the journey to uni is about 15 mins.
..so we already used up our 15 mins of class to get to uni...
Class for 3 hours as usual..
..then we come back home. Let's say we're supposed to cook at 6.oo pm. But we're tired and we rest for an extra 30 mins. So we start cooking at 6.30 pm.
But at 6.45 pm, we should be finishing our cooking.. So we wasted another half on hour there, and we finish cooking at 7.30..
But at 7.30 we're supposed to start homework, so we cannot watch tv after eating.
But we stil watch TV. So we start homework at 8.00
And we delay doing homework.. We YM, Facebook and all that. So we take up two extra hours doing all that. While we're supposed to finish homework at 10pm, we finish at 12pm.
And therefore, it takes out 1 hour from our sleep. So we get about 6 hours sleep.
...and most of the time the next day we will wake up late again...and the cycle continues..
So a little delay in the beginning of the day, caused more delays in the next events to follow.
And this had been a problem for almost 15 years....
Thing is, there are people who are extremely good at managing time. Goes to show that if we realy try, we can get what we want.
Living in Australia, I have friends who are extremely good at managing time. They go through the same workload as I do, but they sleep earlier and they go to all their classes.
Hurmm...maybe it's time for a change? Please?
Procrastination, put it simply, is delaying things. Delaying our homework. Delaying our job. Delaying our duties..
Thing is, life revolves around a chain of events, and is thus subjected to the chain rule, in that a small change in one thing will affect a sequence of events that come after it.
So procrastinating in one thing, will have an effect on the events that follow later on. In an analogy, it is like dominoes...
You push the first one too slow, the rest falls slowly. You push the first one hard, and the rest falls hard.
So, why is procrastination the thief of time?
Imagine, in a day, we have a few events. Let's say, in a day, we rise, bathe, go to 3 classes, come back home, cook, eat, do homework, sleep.
So in effect, we have only 24 hours to do all that..
Let's say, we bathe for 30 minutes (accounting for girls of course. =p). If we delay the time we take to rise from the bed (like turning off our alarms, tossing and turning in bed) for about 10 minutes, we take up an extra 10 minutes of bathing. Which means that ideally, we can only bathe for 20 mins.
..but we still bathe for 30 mins, which means we delay the time to take the bus.
....so we arrive at the bus stop 10 mins late, the next bus comes in another 15 mins..
..so after 15 mins, we go to class. We're late for class because the journey to uni is about 15 mins.
..so we already used up our 15 mins of class to get to uni...
Class for 3 hours as usual..
..then we come back home. Let's say we're supposed to cook at 6.oo pm. But we're tired and we rest for an extra 30 mins. So we start cooking at 6.30 pm.
But at 6.45 pm, we should be finishing our cooking.. So we wasted another half on hour there, and we finish cooking at 7.30..
But at 7.30 we're supposed to start homework, so we cannot watch tv after eating.
But we stil watch TV. So we start homework at 8.00
And we delay doing homework.. We YM, Facebook and all that. So we take up two extra hours doing all that. While we're supposed to finish homework at 10pm, we finish at 12pm.
And therefore, it takes out 1 hour from our sleep. So we get about 6 hours sleep.
...and most of the time the next day we will wake up late again...and the cycle continues..
So a little delay in the beginning of the day, caused more delays in the next events to follow.
And this had been a problem for almost 15 years....
Thing is, there are people who are extremely good at managing time. Goes to show that if we realy try, we can get what we want.
Living in Australia, I have friends who are extremely good at managing time. They go through the same workload as I do, but they sleep earlier and they go to all their classes.
Hurmm...maybe it's time for a change? Please?
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