Have you ever had an idea, a really good one, and you needed to take action, but then kept pushing it till you eventually talk yourself out of it? You know what this is called? Procrastination, and it’s a dream killer.

What is procrastination?

This is the act of delaying tasks needed to be done, and picking to do things according to one’s mood instead of what’s important. This is picking short-term impulses, or fun over long-term goals.

The human brain is naturally lazy, so if one lets it, one will talk themselves out of doing everything that really matters. So what’s the way around this?

Just do it.

It takes high level of discipline to be able to bend the mind into your will. I will not tell you exercise daily, or eat certain kind of food. Though that helps, but at the end of the day all that is needed is to get oneself to do what they needed done, so just do it.

No one says one shouldn’t have fun. But if you have something that needs to be done, just do it. This helps build the trust between you and yourself. Besides, who says having fun has anything to do with what you do? This is a societal conditioning. Fun is a state of mind.

The brain is designed in such a way that it protects one from things one classifies as uncomfortable or unpleasant. So if you don’t pick long-term pleasure over short term pleasure, you will always find yourself unmotivated to do the things that really matters.

©️2025 Victor E. Ojei