IFX Group Web Log
May, 2012 - Procrastination Priorities.
Every day life gives us an incredibly huge list of choices. The list starts with the fact that it is impossible to do everything every day. There are so many things that we need to do and want to do that some of those things must be put off until tomorrow. Even people that hate procrastination are forced to do it to something every day. That is part of life. So what must be done now and what waits until tomorrow?
Obviously doing things that feed, clothe and provide shelter are hard to procrastinate for any length of time without paying a big price. But where does personal time appear on that list? Is there time to think? Or time to find a quiet place and just relax enough to find our own equilibrium and balance again? How often do we procrastinate things that benefit our health and well-being?
Unfortunately the cost of procrastinating personal time is often only seen in hindsight after the medical or funeral bills arrive. Too many procrastinate expecting every tomorrow in life will be exactly like today only to be painfully surprised when tomorrow suddenly turns out to be different.
Shake up the procrastination priority every now and then and see what happens. Take a serious look at your list and choose to do something different today. It could be something simple like moving one thing from the tomorrow list into the today list. Do something that is important for you and someone you love.
Blog subscription (RSS 2.0 feed) 
Some past blog entries from our archive:
- April 2012: Travel Together.
Travel is good for the mind and yet can be even better for the heart. Every person that travels outside their comfort zone returns home changed with a better perspective compared to where they started. There are many quotes from both the famous and anonymous telling of the power travel has to expand the mind, but it is a little more rare to find the same for how travel changes a relationship. [Read more] - April 2011: Hear Here.
The most important quality any person can have is the ability to hear another. In this context we are not talking about the physical act of an ear turning sound waves into brain signals. It has everything to do with what happens to those signals after they are received and how much they resemble the intent of the sender. In simple terms hearing is ... [Read more] - April 2010: Riverbank Economy.
Every economy (personal, local, national or global) is like a river. People gather by the riverside to use the water for different purposes. Some drink the water, some wash, some use the water to irrigate and grow food while others just use the power of flowing water to do other work. [Read more] - April 2009: The Games of Life.
Life is a big game made up of smaller games where you are forced to discover the rules by playing. When born you must discover the rules of how to ask for basic needs. In school you must discover ... [Read more] - April 2008: Vaporware! The Most Amazing Thing You May Never See!
The world has a lot of dreamers. At some point in life, everyone has an idea or two about how to make something better, right a wrong or create something totally new. Sadly, too many people are content with sitting on those ideas and letting them fade away into the shadows of our forgotten past. [Read more] - April 2007: History Libre.
How much knowledge, understanding and wisdom is lost just because some self-absorbed child felt his elders were impossibly stuck in the past with no grip on ... [Read more] - April 2006: The Bill Snooze Alarm.
The credit card is an amazing idea that has proven to pull 17% more out of our pocket than we would otherwise spend if we only used cash. The sad part is that we do not always get 17% more value out of ... [Read more] - April 2005: The Write Word.
Twenty years ago the business world was just waking up to electronic communication through the written word in email. This sparked a revolution that launched the BBS market and ultimately opened the door to the explosion of ... [Read more] - April 2004: A different word for it.
The United States of America personal income tax deadline is the middle of April each year. This can focus a lot of attention on the amount of money we must personally pay, but what do we get for ... [Read more] - April 2003: Lost?
Travel in the United States is amazingly affordable right now. It does not matter if you take plane, train, ship or auto for an hour, a day or a month ... [Read more]