Who am I going to be?

With all that modern day living entails, you can get so busy doing things, that you forget to pay attention to the bigger picture of where your life is going and how what you do today affects your future. You can even get busy doing nothing. Well, nothing productive.

This is where procrastination gets its power: ignorance of the passage of time. Tomorrow seems far away if you call it another day, but it really is just a few hours away. Next year is just 365 or so todays away. Spending just one of those days not doing what you resolved to do shouldn’t be bad, you might think to yourself. Just getting started on it and achieving the goal sooner, so you can move on to other things should also make sense, right?

What if tomorrow never comes? Every minute that goes by is a minute subtracted from the total of your lifetime, and you don’t even know how much time there really is. Or worse still, what if tomorrow does come, but things change in the meantime and you lose the opportunity? One way to get the right perspective of your life’s direction is to ask yourself a question: Who am I going to be?

This question gets you thinking about your life, about what you are doing with it now. Tomorrow is the culmination of what we do today. If you really are honest with yourself about the effects of what you do today on the days ahead, then procrastination will be revealed as what it really is: an illusion. One that fades away as soon as you make that first step.