I saw a short clip on facebook the other day where someone said the real reason for their procrastination was fear and honestly I couldn’t relate more with that statement. It immediately gave me a new perspective on my own procrastination tendencies. For some reason I find myself procrastinating a lot such that I wrote it down as one of the goals I needed to work on for this year. Though I think I’m doing better, I could do much better; but oh well, we will see how I do tomorrow (hahaha here I go again procrastinating).
The truth is that there are things I know I should do and things I actually want to do but somehow I always end up putting them off and most of the times I result to thinking maybe I’m overwhelmed, tired or just outright burnt out and even though these could be contributing factors, I don’t think they are the underlying cause of my procrastination all together.
I have come to see how fear could actually be the cause of it, especially the fear of men and the fear of the unknown. I would like to think that I don’t really care much about what others think of me but that would be a complete lie. Then there are times when I overthink doing certain things that either I’m passionate about or I truly know that God has placed in my heart simply because I’m afraid of whether I’ll be perceived this way or that way. Henceforth, to avoid having people see or judge me wrongly, I end up avoiding doing things altogether at the expense of my goals, dreams and visions.
This five letter statement of “I’ll eventually get to it” is what has and continues to cost people a better life or a chance at living out their dreams. As I look forward to being a year older today, I want to put these two loads called “fear of people” and “fear of the unknown” down and embrace all the things that lie on the other side of fear. As I do this for myself, I am also inviting you to look within yourself and see where you have allowed fear to have the final say because reality is fear probably continues to get louder as you continue to put off that dream or vision for a later day and you may actually never get around to doing those very things you want, need or ought to do. You and I just can’t keep putting things off because of fear. Instead let’s do it in spite of fear and trust God with the outcome.
