What Would Happen If You Stopped Procrastinating?

Short answer: You’d finally finish that book. Long answer: It depends.

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Procrastination is a drug we all get hooked on every once in a while. It’s also hard to say no to, especially when it’s backed up by several bouts of innate laziness. Take my situation for example: Since January, I’ve been working on a novel and it’s coming on quite nicely. And now, I’m using these frequent Medium posts to put off further writing my book.

I haven’t written a single word in two days. I don’t know what it is; the writing well is pretty much tapped out at the moment. But in all my years of writing, if there’s one thing I have realized, it’s that we always wait to have a feeling or some form of inspiration before we do something when it’s actually the other way around.

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Just do it

Don’t sit around wondering how you can do it or when you can. Just go ahead and do it. The more you wait to deliberate whether it can or cannot be done, the more time you’re spending not doing anything productive. Now, some of you might say, “Well, you’re one to talk. You’re doing this instead of working on…