Before you can make the best use of your time you first need some basic information. Number one you need to know how to succeed. Once you know the formula for success, next you need to clarify your intentions, which includes your life purpose, your values, your passions, and your goals.
Clarifying your intentions makes all the difference in the world. Not clarifying your intentions is like owning a high performance luxury vehicle and not knowing where you’re going or even how to drive.
Your physical body and mind are like the car: it looks nice and is full of potential. But by not knowing where you’re going or how to drive the car you’ll never get into first gear, much less out of first gear and into second gear and beyond.
Clarifying your intentions takes work. But it’s the most productive thing you can possibly do because everything else that you do stems from your intentions.
It took me a little over 20 hours to completely clarify my intentions back in 1995 and it wasn’t set in stone. I kept refining my life purpose statement over many years.
It’s not important to get everything perfect up front. What’s important is to begin the process. Over time everything will become clearer and clearer. Do what you can now and be open and willing to change and grow/evolve over time.
Investing the time necessary to clarify your intentions will create a solid foundation from which to build the rest of your life upon. As a result of going through the process you will automatically become more successful, happy, and fulfilled and the concept of “procrastination” will vanish automatically.
Everything begins with intention. Fuzzy intentions will get you fuzzy results. Clearly defined intentions will get you more specific results. If you don’t take the time necessary to clarify your intentions, you’re choosing to give away your power to “whatever happens.” If you leave it up to chance, you’ll get what the world wants for you, which may not be very desirable.
Part of clarifying your intentions includes goal setting. Once you have clearly defined goals, you’re ready to ‘overcome procrastination’ or more accurately, you’re ready to make better decisions about how you spend your time and then take action on those decisions.