By learning, making mistakes, chipping away, working hard and not giving up you can reach your goals.
Successful people accomplish their goal by setting out a goal and striving to be the best that they can be. Anyone who has achieved their fitness goal, wrote a bestselling book, achieved their dream of becoming a doctor, lost 50 pounds, ran a marathon did not do it by dedicating their time to being “perfect”, otherwise they would have neither started their goal nor have completed it! They dedicated their time to their work to do a job well done, a job that they are proud of and can improve on. Perfectionism is not the reason why people prosper. “Dedicate yourself, but amidst all your dedication, be still human” said David Hume. How does one stop this self-defeating behavior of procrastinating that stems from perfectionism which is preventing you from either starting or completing a project? If you have any real desire to fit into a size 6 in six months, the instant pleasure will not be worth it! When you are tempted to procrastinate and the reward is no where in sight, just ask yourself if the instant gratification really worth the long term unhappiness of being further away from your goal. The hedonic calculus says to engage in the action that yields the maximum amount of pleasure.Įating clean for 6 months and dropping a dress size might may give you short term displeasure (it takes time to develop a taste for kale!) *but* it will yield infinite happiness when you achieve your goal, so much so that the displeasure you experience from eating healthy will be worth the future pleasure of looking great! Therefore succumbing to temptation to experience 10 minutes of pleasure and possibility of regret is not worth the long term pleasure you will experience in the future when you go down a dress size. Hedonism is the philosophy that the value or something depends on the amount of pleasure it could yield. Philosopher Jeremy Bentham encourages the application of the hedonic calculus toward your long term happiness. Like a muscle, the more you exercise this “muscle” called will power the more you can build it up to help you in more difficult tasks. Will power can be strengthened through practice. You will not wake up one morning and magically have self-control, self-control is a quality that you exhibit once you have deliberated on the right course of action, chosen the right thing to do which is to resist temptation (to procrastinate in this instance) and execute the action. In order to be a person with self control one must practice self control until it becomes a habit. We learn to be virtuous primarily through practice rather than reasoning and instruction. Without help from self-motivation things do not get done according to the deadline.Īristotle said that moral virtue can be developed. But self control can only work if it receive the necessary support from self-motivation. When we need to get something done, what we primarily rely on is our self control to bring us to complete our task on time. I just lack self control or motivation.Here are a few psychological reasons behind the reasons why we procrastinate and I will explain how you can overcome them with a little logic based philosophy.
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