Overcoming Procrastination: Personal Reflections and Strategies for Effective Time Management

Looking back at my life, even as close as a few weeks ago, one of the things I regretted most was my act of procrastination. It's quite disheartening seeing the numerous benefits, personal growth, and development these have costed me, and I've come to realize that it's high time I retract my steps, manage my time better, set clear goals, and many more.

Throughout my life, I've never really been a 5 a.m. club member, and that's because I'm a night crawler, so it's obvious I'd wake up late the next day. However, that doesn't stop me from planning my day and programming how I want everything to go on a daily basis. Unfortunately, procrastination has eaten me up to a point where I easily get distracted, forget, or postpone a task I'm supposed to do to another time, and before I realize time is up, I end up being upset with myself.

Take, for instance, a few weeks ago, a friend added me to a Discord channel where we all partake in different crypto mining and airdrop pursuit, and almost on a daily basis, a new project is highlighted, and almost everyone in the channel is thrilled and elated that such a project would turn out well, so they usually give it there all, except me, who's mostly unmotivated by the prospect of the project, or I just keep procrastinating that I'll attempt them late.

And just last week, one of such projects launched and skyrocketed, and everyone in the channel was excited and celebrating their lot, all except me, because while they were all minning the coin notcoin, to be precise, I saw the announcement but kept on procrastinating that I'd do it later, and that later went from one day to weeks and then months until I forgot about it.

And now that's it as launched and everyone is ripping the benefits of their timely intervention and ultilizing of their time, I found myself biting my fingers in regret, wishing I had joined them and done everything on time without procrastinating like I've always done, and however I can't turn back the hands of time, and so I decided to start focusing more and remain committed to doing things at the right time without shifting such to a later time or day.

Talking about if I usually just flow with whatever comes in the day or lay down a plan on how I wanted it to go, I'd say I usually have a plan, although that plan never includes me waking up as early as 5 a.m., except on a few occasions when I'm on duty at my offline workplace or have somewhere I need to be that warrants me to travel across the state. Then I do join the 5 a.m. club; other than that, I just program my day from 6:30 a.m.

But along the way, I realized I don't really follow the plans I laid down, as I wanted them to go, and I just kept on procrastinating until the day was almost up. For instance, I usually lay it down to publish a post very early, before 4 p.m. in the evening, but I guess my offline job task, tirelessly and procrastination, pushes me to not do that and only start writing at a later hour of the night, just as I'm doing presently.

But I've come to realize this cost me a lot, and there's a huge difference between the turnout of articles I published earlier in the day and those I published late at night. With that realization and the recent disappointment I got from missing out on NotCoin, I've been working on a strategy I can delve into so I'll have free time to do most of my tasks on time without procrastinating.

Also, I'm thinking of setting loads of alarms that'll serve as a reminder to make me not derail away from my laid-out plans for the future, personal goals and growth, and other important aspects of my life that need immediate intervention.

While I'm not an early riser, I can't discredit the effectiveness of raising up early to indulge in all of our laid-out plans and goals because raising up early gives us enough time to think ahead before stepping out of our house. One will have enough time to think about each activity and, as well, lay down a blueprint for how they'd love to run the day.

However, I don't see raising your child as early as 5 a.m. as a yardstick to accomplishing your goals, because despite waking up early, we've seen many people who are still prey to procrastination and still postpone tasks to a later time until it seems as though time is running out and they start working around the clock to meet up, and on some days, they'll ultimately fail in that bid.

So the way forward, in my opinion, is to understand what works for us, and once that has been discovered, we can develop better time management habits by breaking our objectives and goals into small chunks and making sure they're as clear as possible. If that's followed later, such an individual will experience drastic positive change, achieving more and enhancing their growth and development in all ramifications.

This is my entry for the day 16 of the #mayinleo prompt of the #inLeo initiative, if you'd love to participate, you can read days about it in the announcement post.

Thanks so much for your time. Have a wonderful day ahead and stay blessed.

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