From procrastination to precrastination || a new approach to success

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One cankerworm that has always been eaten deep into me is procrastination. The word procrastination is a terrible word and its existence has done more harm than good to the entire human race.

Procrastination is a word that is synonymous to postponement. Procrastination which is a habit of delaying or putting off tasks or decisions is something that should not be joked with. It's really cost many people their lives and fortunes and as a result, limited them to where they are now.

This word procrastination has really dealt with me in so many ways and on many occasions. Though I was not so cognizant of this cankerworm before as I was always of the opinion that I was doing the normal thing, it's recently when I checked and examined myself that I realized I have lost so many opportunities to the cankerworm called procrastination.

Here in this my write up, I would like to share my ownexperience with procrastination.

Some time ago, I was to be given a teaching job by a state government. But the postponement of my certificate collection cost me the already made job offer. Though, I worked myself to the level of seeing my appointment letter with my own two eyes, but the unavailability of my certificate would not allow me to be given the appointment talkless of being gainfully employed to the teaching service commission of the said state.

Though, I have collected my statement of result from my institution of learning, and since the collection of the statement of result, I thought that was all since the original certificate was not available as at the time of the collection of the statement of result.

So, after like two years of the collection of the statement of result, a friend of mine, who happened to be my coursemate, Solomon called me to share the good news of the availability of our original certificate with me. Though, I was happy at the availability of the said certificate, but then I was busy with what I was doing, but I should have even found time to go and collect the certificate, but I could not.

Even when there's time, I didn't seem fit to go for the result and instead of that, I was there busy postponing the collection date. There's a day that my friend, Solomon called me to meet him at the senate building of the university for the collection of the certificate, but I remembered I told him I would be coming over the next week. So, he went ahead and collected his own.

On the day he called me to come over, I was doing nothing at home, but because of my habit of postponing things, I decided to stay back.

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So, when it's the right time for me to make use of the result, I can't lay my hands on it. I tried all my efforts to getting it, but every of my efforts was in futility. In fact I used all my connections to getting the certificate, but still, I was told it will take the senate another three months to get it approved. “Three months,” I exclaimed! There's no way I would be given the job as it's an urgent need for me to get.

So, when I realized that getting the certificate would not be possible, I gave up on the job and waited for the said three months, but the deed has been done, as I couldn't lay claim to the job because of my procrastination.

So, since then and from what I have experienced via procrastination, I have decided to adopt another strategy and way of life which is precrastination which is the opposite of procrastination. This my new habit and approach to life has done me more good than bad to the point of landing me better job compared to the last one I lost.

My experience with the bad habit of postponement has taught me a bitter lesson and I have really learnt to be proactive and stop postponing things to the next seconds.

Thanks for reading.

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