Episode Transcript

What’s up everybody? Welcome back to THE a.m guys. Welcome back to five minute rants.

So today I’m actually going to talk about procrastination, and there’s a few reasons, actually, why I want to talk about this. First procrastination is actually, I think, one of the bigger battles that the majority of people struggle with. I’ve struggled with it, and everybody does in their own way and how they actually struggle with it. And it’s interesting, because that’s the daily fight, is to deal with things now and in the moment and take time and have the self discipline to do it, versus allow pressure to build up. So I don’t have to have self discipline because of the procrastination.

So here’s let me give some backstory to this. I work very well under pressure. When things get stressful, it’s like, Yes, this is great. It’s part of my personality. I really enjoy challenges personally. When I see challenges, I don’t get afraid of them. I normally run towards them and I get excited. I’m like, This is awesome. Like, playing sports when it gets close and heated, is like, this is amazing. I love this, right? And it’s interesting, because that carries over into work. I like when there’s pressure. I like when there’s things are busy. And there’s multiple reasons behind this, and I’m not going to get into them because that we start talking about personalities, we start going down this path and, well, that will be for a later episode, probably. I’ve got a backlog.

So, but the point is, is procrastination, and what happens is often times when we procrastinate, what we are looking to have happen in our life is pressure to build up so that I don’t have to have the self discipline in order to do the work. Now, the pressure, or the pain that’s being applied in my life through the procrastination, through me, procrastinating is actually what’s forcing me now to do the work, because I have to get it done or there, or else, right?

And it’s interesting. I was talking with my mentor, and one things we talked about was the NFL, and how a lot of athletes in the NFL, they go broke. They go broke after the NFL, because what’s happened is they’ve been put in a box. They’ve been put in a regiment of training since middle school, high school. However, their fathers raised them up and different things, and all these professional athletes go through this. And everything is regimented. Everything is scheduled out. They have to show up. There’s always somebody there helping drive and push them. And so when it comes to applying self discipline in a lot of other areas in their life, they fail, because the self discipline has actually been removed by a program.

It’s the same thing with procrastination. Oftentimes, I have procrastinated because I don’t want to do it, and I’m not making myself actually accomplish the task through self discipline. Rather, I’m waiting for the pressure to build up or for things to get bad enough or whatever to happen in my life towards, like, cool. Now I’ve got to do it, and it works. And that’s the problem. It works. And so the battle is to fight against this, to be proactive versus reactive, because procrastination is reactive.

And oftentimes we’ll procrastinate because we’re actually avoiding the real work of thinking and actually planning out what needs to happen and planning out the steps, because we just want to wing things right. And a lot of creative people fall on this side a lot, versus a lot of more detailed oriented people, and where they’re technical and they’re they’re scheduled and programmed, right? It’s a little bit different. They’re not programmed. But what I’m saying is they’re I’m describing programmers to y’all, in a sense.

But the point is this, we want the procrastination to help apply pressure for us to have to do what we need to do without me making myself and so this is where self discipline comes in. This is where, like just getting up to go exercise. It doesn’t matter how much, but you’re just getting up to go out and exercise. Helps battle this, because then when it comes time to say no to yourself, to procrastinate, to apply pressure to your life, when it comes time to say no to that stuff, well, you’re going to be able to do it much more easily because you’re already telling yourself no in different ways.

It’s an art form to say no. It’s an art form to focus. It’s an art form to actually push past all of the barriers and boundaries that you have built up to help to keep yourself moving forward, because most of the stuff in our life that causes problems, we made it right. We made it or it’s been put in our court, and we simply haven’t dealt with it. And I think it’s so important to see that, and then it’s so important to see that procrastination is a cycle that we’ve made for ourselves to keep us from having to have self discipline.

And it’s interesting, because when you start having self discipline, you really start loving yourself, because you start doing what’s best for yourself, which includes taking care of your neighbor and loving your neighbor, which includes giving and serving, which includes coming out of your selfishness and choosing to be selfless in a lot of ways, and then choosing to face where people aren’t as scary as they seem to be at first glance.

Anyways, guys, that’s it for day. I’ll catch you later. Peace.