Ticking one box every week

I watched a ted talk recently regarding procrastination. We all do it in various degrees all the time. There are two kinds of situation where procrastination can be seen as a boon or a bane. The first kind is when there is a deadline, and when it's drawing nearer and nearer, the panic monster in us suddenly awakens and make us do the necessary things to get things done. Then there's another kind where there's no obvious dateline. This is where the panic monster do not appear.


A good example is like exercising or eating a healthy diet. There's no dateline for such things, and so we tend to procrastinate the good but painful life choices until well, it's too late. The speaker suggested we look at the picture that I've done up below.

Each box is a week of our life. There are 4,680 such boxes in it, enough to tick one box every week from birth till we're 90 years old. Some of the boxes are shaded and some are not yet. I'm sure you know why some boxes are shaded and why some are not.


Life itself is a deadline, and you can say it's the biggest deadline here. Live life fully and don't regret not doing the things you want to do. Create meaning in your life.


And start right now because we don't really know how many boxes we have left.