Yeah, Tomorrow. For Sure!

"I'm gonna start writing tomorrow. For sure!"

"I'm gonna wake up tomorrow at 5 AM. For sure!"

"I'm gonna start eating healthy tomorrow. For Sure!"

These are the assurances I gave myself everyday and have never worked on it in the past 6 months. I am not entirely sure if I have to take this as a glass half-full or half-empty situation.

Being so confident on the things that I plan on starting tomorrow, I have literally not done a useful thing in the past half year but instead, have done all things for me to prepare for the tomorrow I keep planning; opening my editor the whole day and stare at it for a couple of hours, so that it could inspire me somehow to start writing "from tomorrow", sleeping at 10 PM so that I get enough sleep to wake up at 5 "tomorrow", and having one more plate of pasta because I am going to work out and eat simple food "from tomorrow". In reality, none of these panned out. I always looked forward to tomorrow, because it is going to be the start of a change in my routine and hoping that everything will come fall into place. But nothing actually did. Everyday was just existence, until today. Today I did two of the three things in the above procrastination list and I am proud of that. I find it very hard to wake up at 5 in the morning, so that's on the back burner for now.

The takeaway from my procrastination story:

1. All of us would have heard this quote "Tomorrow never comes" in our childhood. I did not understand what it actually meant until now.

2. It's easy for everyone around us to tell us to start acting on it. But it's extremely difficult to start, because you have to be ready physically and mentally to act on it.

This is my procrastination story. What's yours?

P.S. Just because I snooze my alarm everyday at 5, doesn't mean I am not going to snooze and actually wake up one day. Hopefully that day would come soon.

Bon Nuit

S.