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Smashing procrastination and laziness

We often observe that we make grand plans for our work,health and fitness, financial growth,career growth etc and set lofty goals but are not able to reach them even halfway.We feel lazy, procrastinate and leave things we start midway.Sometimes we don’t even reach 25% of our predetermined goal.This pattern repeats itself each time.We are unable to break free.We desire to succeed and achieve but are not able to break the rut. What then is the way out? The main reason we procrastinate and do not push ourselves to finish the set task is that there is no sense of urgency .We know there will always be a tomorrow.And the next one.We do not realize that in the process of this shift to tomorrows, we have wasted years.For some of us more than half of our life is already over and our achievement quotient is not even 5% of what we would like for it to be.If our roof broke in the rains we would fix it immediately.Similarly if we fractured our hand we would attend to it immediately bec...

Take control of your life

We are born at our parents will.We have no control of the time at which we are born.The initial few years of our life till we leave home are primarily influenced by our family.Our parents thoughts , ideas and limitations become ours.If our parents believe in destiny /doomed human existence and are negative, we also start having such mindsets.Most people believe by the time they are 18 that the course of life is already charted out for them and sleep walk through life thereafter.They do not put in efforts into any new endeavors or new experiences . We must realize that life is something that was given to us as gift and that the course it takes is upto us.The direction we give it will determine how it rolls.The direction can enable us to achieve greater things and not just let life take its course. We can take control in the following ways: 1. Learn to take ownership of own actions :It is very easy to blame the events in our life on destiny and not take ownership of these t...