Anthony D Carter

“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.”  ~Victor Kiam

Procrastination can rob you of your initiative and drive. When you develop a habit of putting things off you weaken your ability to take advantage of opportunities. You become passive. Your life becomes one big waiting game. This doesn’t have to continue. You can break the habit of putting things off. Here are three tips for eliminating procrastination:

There was an old dog sitting on the porch moaning and whining all day long. A stranger passed by stopped and asked the dog’s owner why did the dog whine and moan like that. His owner said the dog was sitting on a nail. The stranger asked, “Then why doesn’t he get off the nail?” To which the owner replied, “It guess it doesn’t hurt enough yet”.

Life is dull and boring without a dream. In our natural state we are goal striving beings and we are at our happiest when we are motivated by a dream.

When we have a burning desire and we actually make a decision to go pursue that dream we get excited. So often the  pursuit of our dream rivals the actual accomplishment. It is the expectation of accomplishment that actually drives us.

A dream causes us to set goals. It causes us to make plans. After we have set our goals it is our dream that motivates us to follow the plan until we hit our goals consistently enough to obtain our dream.

Success begins with your state of mind. If you have failed before then you have the ability to succeed. It is just a matter of using those failures in a positive way.

Your failures should be used as a foundation for your eventual success. The worst thing you can do is look at your setbacks as permanent situations that you find yourself in.

That is the most common reason that people usually become failures. They look at their temporary situation as hopeless and they quit.