stop procrastinating

Give yourself time, be gentle on yourself and always love yourself as you are today and the next and the next, however when you do get the inspiration, the guidance on which direction your life must go, just jump over the abyss, however scary it may be. Know that it takes faith to do that which will achieve success and happiness in your life. Don’t make rash decisions, or act on a whim, but acknowledge true guidance and act!

I am South African. One of our class acts is Prime Circle. I include their lyrics for ‘Live This Life’. Great inspiration for living life, without delay (procrastinating)

Haven’t you wondered, haven’t you guessed
Haven’t you dreamed what’s coming round next
Haven’t you foreseen, master plan
All of this hold it in your hand
Deep inside you light a flame don’t you stay
down just get up again
Can’t you hear it, it’s a sign
To live (x4) this life
Now there’s something (x2) that’s changed me
Getting older a little bolder
I can see a new surrounding (ye)
Life’s about perception hope that you can see the proof
If you’re living in a palace or you got no roof
Stop complaining all the time, go now.
Come and go what to say
Make a move stop running away
Live this life, everyday,
Live on now
Time is of the essence, try to keep track
Once it’s gone(x2) it’s never ever coming back
Sometimes hard to handle (ye)
Please forgive me for the times when I just did not see you
I didn’t realise what I had or what I put you through
Feel it coming, ticking, chiming
Come and go what to say
Make a move stop running away
Live this life, everyday
Live on now

To download the song, go here:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/1544438458/Prime_Circle/Live_This_Life

For those of us who seek to live and not just exist, the reality is that we spend a lot of time at work – our careers. The old adage ‘to love what you do and to do what you love’ applies. I have read a few of the entries made by people who want to stop procrastinating. Quite a few of these entries are related to not making a decision to move on from their current jobs to doing something else that will give them greater fulfilment, in other words procrastinating.

If this is the case with you, know that you are at a crossroad and it is an important one. Life is asking you to respond, to not procrastinate any more. Your choices now are very important as they will become your future. What you choose from here on will determine if you claim a destiny or give into fate. My only suggestion is that you don’t make choices that you will regret one day, and remember, not making a choice, is a choice in itself. A choice to do nothing about your discontent about your work is also a choice. As one grows older one is faced, more and more with the question, ‘what if’? If only, I did this, if only I did that. Don’t let this happen to you.

I read somewhere that youth is wasted on the young. If you are still young, I can tell you from experience that before you know it, years have passed and you wonder how it’s happened so fast. If you are not so young any more, it is never too late to turn your life around, but as you know it becomes increasingly more difficult as you get older. You get more and more stuck in your ways. What I have also found, from my own life and from being a keen scholar of life and other people is that a lot of times when we don’t act, we do so because we fear something. But the dumbfounding thing is that we are less afraid of our shadow than we are of our light. In other words we are more afraid of success than we are of failure! Consider that if you don’t venture into finding what will make you feel fulfilled and happy at the end of the day, you will end up staying in the comfort zone of what you are doing at the moment. You may even rationalize it by a better the devil you know attitude
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However, if you found out what really excites you, what will really make you successful and happy, you will have to face the challenges that comes part and parcel with it.

Knowing what you want asks one to dare, to face the unknown. It takes courage, endurance and faith in yourself and in whatever higher power you belief in. Are you going to choose the easy way out? Or, are you going to get into the ‘uncomfortable zone’, the only place which will lead you to your heart’s desire which is to live your life, instead of just existing.

Maybe it is not so much that you are never meant to know who you are, or what your purpose is, but – I respectfully suggest – that you are afraid of what it will mean if you did know. “I don’t know” is the answer of a child and although some of us are still young, none of us can still think of ourselves as children. Never give yourself that excuse. If you don’t know, then seek for the answers and you will find them, that is if you are willing to receive them with an open mind. Listen to your gut feelings, get in touch with your intuition, whatever it takes, but don’t succumb to the temptation of accepting less of yourself. And remember sometimes the answer is quite simple. Guidance from your higher self is gentle and often simple. You will recognize it that way. The difficult part is often not receiving the guidance, but acting on it!