Bjorn Bernales

There are perks in owning a business. In my case, blogging is considered the business venture that I am in. I am also doing freelancing. However, I have experienced difficulties when my job online doing at home. Certainly, they are manageable. Doing time management and realizing the plans integrated for the timely management is the best strategic action I can do. Again, there are limitations and the limitations somehow have to do with personality. And perhaps, having a character, unworthy one, can bring downfall to a personality.

 

Procrastination is the biggest hurdle that I am experiencing right now. It has brought clout in the way I do my work and it is the main factor that makes success seems difficult to attain.

 

I can really say that procrastination can kill somebody, anybody. But the problem with this problem is that it is a self-inflicting one. It is rather an improved version of sloth, though the latter may be the worst of its kind. However, procrastination is the cause of unexpected, unwanted, undesirable and disgusting effects of failure.

 

I have to correct what I have stated in the second paragraph—procrastination being an experience. Actually, procrastination is a habit—a manana habit—if I have to add the Spanish/Filipino version of the term. And right now, it is killing me bit by bit.

 

Losing focus is the primary motivator for procrastination. When you divert your attention from the most important priority, you tend to catch in to the web that can trap you until you drop into the hole or engulf you to a monster. The sad thing here is that the ‘monster’ is a personal creation and it could exist subconsciously. And I have to clear that the ‘monster’ here is a metaphor of something, a force, maybe, that pulls you to failure.

 

And what should be done to ward you off from the ill effects of procrastination. I think the better cure, if not the mere prevention is FOCUS.

 

• Focus on priorities;
• Focus on what is important.
• Focus on the goals.
• Focus on success.

 

That means, sacrifice is the key here.