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If you are always saying I'll do it to tomorrow, than your tomorrow will than turn into another day and so on, and so, etc. etc.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient." [The Guardian, 25 February 2010]

If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.

If you deny it you will delay it, if you accept it you will act on it.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your time, you never develop a strategy for outmaneuvering your own weakness.

If you wait for things to be perfect, you walk away with NOTHING. Just jump in and get started.

If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your time usefully!

If you want to get anywhere, you have to start somewhere.

I generally find,' Clent murmured after a pause, 'that it is best to treat borrowed time the same way as borrowed money. Spend it with panache, and try to be somewhere else when it runs out.' 'And when we get found, Mr. Clent, when the creditors and bailiffs come after us and it's payment time...' '...then we borrow more, madam, at a higher interest. We embark on a wilder gamble, make a bigger promise, tell a braver story, devise a more intricate lie, sell the hides of imaginary dragons to desperate men, climb to even higher and more precarious ground...and later, of course, our fall and catastrophe will be all the worse, but later will be our watchword, Mosca. We have nothing else - but we can at least make later later.

If you waste time looking at the shore, you might miss the ocean.

I have noticed that the majority of people procrastinate. In fact, it’s way more common than the common cold itself.

I had no confidence in myself. I was a fraud. Who was I to pick up a pen and expect anything good to come from it? I expected perfection as soon as the pencil hit the paper, and since that's impossible, I couldn't get myself to start. Then I felt guilty about not starting which made me want to start even less.

I have met people who have ruined their entire lives because of procrastination. They were unaware of why they never took a step, but I could easily see their Procrasdemon standing beside them.

Il n'y a pas si longtemps, la procrastination était ma pire ennemie, mais, depuis que je m'efforce de simplifier ma vie, elle a fait place à l'efficacité.

Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.

Imagine that a writer has to finish a novel in three months. The objective is clear; the problem is that the writer can't stop obsessing over it. Every day she wakes up thinking, "I have to write that novel," and every day she sets about reading the newspaper and cleaning the house. Every evening she feels frustrated and promises she'll get to work the next day. Days, weeks, and months pass, and the writer still has't gotten anything down on the page, when all it would have taken was to sit down and get that first word out, then the second . . . to flow with the project, expressing their ikigai. As soon as you take these first small steps, your anxiety will disappear and you will achieve a pleasant flow in the activity you're doing.

I'm a procrastinator and a lazy person by nature. However, I require the laziness for greatness.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

I must catch up on procrastination.

Il ne faut jamais remettre à demain ce que l'on peut procrastiner aujourd'hui.

Indiscipline is the major pillar on which a procrasdemon stands still.

I never finish task on time I am always late, I have tough time to get started; I do not find right date. I always have excuse; I believe that the work will be done if it is in fate, I am easily distracted, waste my time due to this my tasks inflate. Make to do lists, organize, planning are the things that I hate, Procrastination is in my blood after postponing the task I feel great. I do not focus, I wait for perfect moments, I am always in a messy state, I am over whelmed, overloaded because I do not plan, I always like to wait. Uncertain, unrealistic goals, negative beliefs, personal problems are my mate, Perfectionism, fear of unknown I will do it later, working on trivial tasks are my favorite traits.

Inside" Children Inside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. With regard to our creative dreams, these inside children can prevent us from living them by "acting out" in order to try to get our attention. Your inner 5-year-old is not going to patiently wait as you learn intricate metalworking techniques or study impressionist painting. Yet, your inner 10-year-old may be perfectly suited to learn and observe new skills. What's really needed is parenting of these inside children so that we bring them to age-appropriate activities.

In essence, we are pushing off the difficult work into the future so we don't have to deal with our potential inadequacy. I think that many people would rather live with the delusion that they're invulnerable than test their limits and discover that they actually have some.

In order for anything to happen you will have to act. Knowing is not enough. Neither is just being. Talking becomes annoying beyond a certain point. Doing makes all the difference. Doing converts thoughts into things. Doing turns talk into solutions and tangible results.

Inside Critics The critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we might hear from the outside. Our "inside critics" have intimate knowledge of us and can zero in on our weakest spots. You might be told by the critics that you're too fat, too old, too young, not intelligent enough, a quitter, not logical, prone to try too many things... It's all balderdash! Some elements of these may be true, and it's completely up to you how they affect you. Inside critics are really just trying to protect you. You can: Learn to dialogue with them. Give them new jobs. Turn them into allies. You can also dismantle/exterminate them.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

In ten years time will you look back at your past week and be glad how you chose to spend it?

I know love is begun by time, And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. And nothing is at a like goodness still. For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in his own too-much. That we would do, We should do when we would, for this “would” changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents. And then this “should” is like a spendthrift sigh That hurts by easing.

Instead of saying maybe in May, let May be!

In this life we may face dangerous/difficult situations, in which we will be on our own… The best thing that can happen, is to realize that nobody, but only ourselves will get us out of there… Thus, we take immediate action… The worst thing is not realizing it; until is too late…

In this life we may face dangerous/difficult situations in which we will be on our own… The best thing that can happen is to realize that nobody but only ourselves will get us out of there… Thus, we take immediate action… The worst thing is not to realizing it, until is too late…

In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

...it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?

It has never been about talent. It’s more about the ritual of working every day. A process of adopting beliefs that bloom us and dropping the ones that enslave us. It has been about not feeding the Procrasdemon.

It is always easier to edit what has been written than to write what has not been started.

It is always easier to edit what has been written than to write what has not been done.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you.

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

..it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.

It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said. 'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to say again, and unable to resist saying, that 'Dumas, I think it was Dumas, some terrifically prolific Frenchman, said that writing novels is a simple matter - if you write one page a day, you'll write one novel a year, two pages a day, two novels a year, three pages, three novels, and so on. And how long does it take to cover a page with writing? Twenty minutes? An hour? So you see. Very easy really.' 'I don't know,' she said, laughing. 'I can't even bring myself to write a letter.' 'Oh, now that's hard.' ("Novelty")

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.

It's an everyday wish list, until you actually do it, to make it your everyday life experience.

It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!