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Humanity Still Procrastinates
Procrastina- tion is when we put off doing something now even while knowing it will be worse for us later. It’s a spiritual issue with a long history. The earliest written account of procrastination we have is from ancient Egypt. The account from ancient Egypt tells us of issues that arose from putting off farming…
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Competing Motivations
Humanity has another addiction. The human brain prefers to expend a minimum of energy. The path of least resistance, it promotes efficiency. Research proves this to be biologically true which means complex pattern analysis is the last thing most people want to do. Instead, they fall into a binary pattern of thinking, black or white, is…
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Children of a Greater Reality
So how do we find that balance? For each person the sway of the balance must be different. I work at finding a peaceful place within and going there when I am out of balance. My only idea is to be consciously aware of it and attempt to bias some of my decisions towards my…
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Time is Your Heartbeat
Now what happens when you hold strict rules of association? Self-examines her own thinking… Her own thinking is a collective of her own experiences and exposure to her environment, as well as natural inheritance. When you hold strict rules of association, you actually lock down the ability of the mind to adapt. More binary as…
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Emotion Itself is an Aberration
Ever have emotions you didn’t feel? I’ve had moments when I’ve noticed myself reflexively starting to have an emotion and then realized that it was silly because I didn’t feel it. It’s like the other person expected it and I had to oblige them. I think when they are induced by other people. Yes, but…
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Attuned to Natural Rhythm
If you are angry, you will make people angry. If you are happy, you will make people happy. When I am angry, I can make other people angry. Yes, this is true. It’s the social web, but strangely when I feel rage, others remain unmoved. Why is that? Anger is emotion which usually clouds the feeling…
Category: Procrastination
You will procrastinate to the degree that the outcome will have a delayed arrival and to the degree that you are impulsive. We aren’t meant to behave as mechanisms never deviating from an assigned function, but likewise if we deviate at every turn and in response to every distraction, our creative efforts will be reliably thwarted. Either way our quality of life takes a serious dive. So we have these two competing motivations so how do we find that balance?
People think themselves the authors of their own being, rather than the children of a greater reality, at least most people commonly do. So they impede the flow of energy by fixing or locking it into patterns that actualize not the desired outcomes they seek. They don’t create the fulfilment of the goals so adamantly sought after.
“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” Martin Luther (German Priest and Scholar 1483-1546)
“Procrastination is the thief of time.” Edward Young (English literary Critic, Poet and Dramatist, 1683-1765)