WALK, DO NOT PROCRASTINE, DO IT NOW

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It is very opportune, I think, to reflect and advise, at this stage of the blog, not invariably postpone the activity of walking, coupled with reading, writing and drawing, for aspects such as lack of time, commitments, other activities most important, etc. (Post THE WALK AND THE LACK OF TIME).

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Let’s analyze the concept of procrastinating, very briefly.

For this we must start that we are not lazy or irresponsible. Etymologically procrastination means postponing for the next day.

If every time we have to carry out an activity, we postpone it and exchange it with pleasure for another, making us feel bad about not doing it at the moment we are aware of it, we are procrastinating.

Why do we feel bad? Because surely the activity we procrastinate – we postpone – we know, think and feel that we should do it before we exchange. We recriminate ourselves because we postpone and avoid doing that activity at a time that we feel we should do before any other action.

Permanently, the whole human being – at a certain age – knows that it is convenient for him to act by prioritizing his preferences for the attention he must pay in the performance of certain activities over others. This precedence (praelatio action to put before) in human activities is a custom that is acquiring -in some more people, in others less and in others it is not acquired- as we develop in life. It is the preference we give -mental action and discernment- to certain actions to carry them out, some before others.

If this action of precedence is an irrefutable fact in human behavior, then why do we procrastinate? It has been answered in different ways, both “in favor” and “against”: “Because procrastination is irrational”; “Because it is not bad”; “Because it is a way for everyone to manage their time”; “Because it’s something we do against ourselves, but that’s not the case”; “Procrastinating is not a disease”; “Procrastination is a chronic disease”; “The task is not evaded, only postponed”; “They are passenger moods”; “They are negative emotional states that restrict positive attitudes”; “Procrastination is the sum of moods of insecurity, laziness, disability, frustration and boredom”; “Procrastination is a state of depression and anxiety”; “Procrastinating is synonymous with aversion to performing a task”; “Procrastination is the result of stress.”

All these answers have some truth and together answer the question, although some seem contradictory. Is procrastination voluntary or involuntary? It is voluntary, because we decided not to carry out that activity that we consider more important than others.

This question I would like to face with an “ism” that I have been working on, building and analyzing it in recent years, and that I have called Acronism; this unveiling system allows us to become aware of the process of creation about an artistic work, in such a way that it prevents us from losing creative moments that unconsciously gravitate above all artistic creators. It helps us to investigate those acts and movements that affect ex-ante the representation activities of an artist to carry out his creative work. This places us inexorably in a “state of creative alertness” trying not to lose any moment of creation, that is, not to access for any reason to procrastinate in any way.

In addition to the above, we also have a clarity that the result, in general, after circumventing the procrastination, results of having feelings of guilt in us. That is, this procrastination phenomenon is a vicious circle very similar to those I mentioned in previous writings (THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE HABITS, and NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM-GENERAL CASES) and what drives and provokes higher rates of procrastinating in person.

The following diagram illustrates this POSTERGATION-SATISFACTION-HABIT circle:

In these cases of procrastination we can show (patent and confirm) the problem that is presented to people who want to escape or flee from the reality that suffocates them.

Is it possible that unconsciously we try to avoid thinking about the future and go back to the here and now (in the present)? Or vice versa?

In the first place I would like to mention that procrastination is a phenomenon of attitude towards life, which we must clarify if they are strictly related to activities that we postpone to represent medium or long-term efforts, and therefore we choose those that are of immediate realization, even if they exist cases that patent it. We must also consider, that sometimes the individual who procrastinates considers -he really feels in his intimate jurisdiction- that those activities that he postpones do not correspond to them, because they must be carried out by another person and not him, because he supposes are the responsibility of others. Its realization is so unpleasant that it uses very personal mechanisms -perhaps they are part of a state of neurosis- that allow it to refocus its attitudes and actions by subtracting from that responsibility.

Procrastination provokes in the subject two sensations: a situation of displeasure for not having done it and it is for the same animosity towards the activity that must be carried out; and the other, a perception of satisfaction by allowing oneself to be relieved of the commitment, freeing it from its fulfillment. A double effect: a positive one: liberation; the other negative: frustration. This frustration felt by the procrastinator is never enough to carry out the postponed activity; and liberation reinforces procrastination. An endless circle, as we mentioned before.

Now, it seems that the problem is in managing our emotions better (Post “EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM“).

Procrastination is not a decision-making problem, it is not a matter of time management, it is not extreme apathy, it is not laziness, it is not cowardice, it is not a disability, it is not a lack of interest; It is all this as an effect of an emotional state, but it is also a problem of bad habits. Therefore, we must focus, on the one hand, to know the power of emotions, and thus be able to free ourselves from the negatives; and on the other, to break bad habits (Post NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM-GENERAL CASES). Let us start from the fact that the individual who procrastinates must lead to a better management of his bad habits and negative emotions. We have presented the procedure to combat bad habits in a general way in the writing NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM-GENERAL CASES and in particular, to combat obesity, in writing COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM – THE OBESITY.

Perhaps the major problem that arises in the phenomenon of Procrastination is to identify the emotional cause for which one has the attitude of postponing all activities, all the time, as much as possible. But once this causality has been identified, the application of the procedure we have indicated is more comfortable and effective.

In the next 2 post on procrastination, we will present – in a general way – how to identify the specific causes for the different cases (Future Post FIGHTING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, SOLUTION TO PROCRASTINATION); and in another one, the application of the procedure for the break with procrastination, as a treatment towards bad habits (Future Post COMBATING BAD HABITS WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM: SOLUTION TO PROCRASTINATION ).

For now, let’s try to walk and choose any of the 3 options that are indicated in the previous image, in the intelligence that any of them will set us in motion towards an activity, trying at all times certain satisfactions and will be acceptable to our attitude towards life.

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