Lives aren’t as smooth as they were even before a few years but that’s the way things are. It’s your environment where you have to survive and thrive. Hence, instead of feeling bad about the decline it would be a wise thing to face it head-on. Since we have already considered (and for all the valid reasons) that the situation is tough, so you have to be tougher.
As a student (whether you are a regular student or a professional pursuing furthering his or her degrees) you must be excellent. Unfortunately, the quality of qualified students is also not very promising. We are not saying you have lesser knowledge but there might be a few missed elements that could have made you excellent and irreplaceable. If you are open to an honest discussion without taking it personally and willing to face it and revise then let’s continue reading it further.
The Challenge
What’s almost paralyzing aspirers’ ambitions is the growing gap between planning and execution and not honoring commitments. When you are pursuing higher studies or a course for enhancing your skills or even chasing a deadline, time is a crucial factor. You make plans to accomplish your targets one by one and finish them within time but often people struggle to accomplish their micro-goals and this delays their schedule. It is more than procrastination and can sabotage your career if you fail to address it.
What Made It A ‘Challenge’?
The wider the gap between your plans and execution grows the farther you drift away from your goals. It is a deeper problem with habits that can create hurdles for achieving your goals and if yet not treated can literally shut the door on possibilities. With time it grows deeper and with more profound impact on your academic performance, career, and life goals. That’s why we call it a challenge and so you must overcome it. Let’s trace it to its origin; what made it a challenge to bother about.
Too many responsibilities
When an individual is given or has to shoulder many responsibilities, specifically, to help his or her family survive then it becomes too much burdensome for them. Especially when the individual is too young to carry such responsibilities it becomes a burden for them and eventually, they develop a sense of reluctance for everything.
Improper prioritizing
The first step to utilizing time for deriving results is setting priorities; rank your tasks in order of importance. The challenge arises because of repeatedly failing to prioritize your tasks. In the absence of prioritization, you end up spending time on other things instead of working on what you should have completed first.
Lack of time management
All great men and women had 24 hours and seven days a week and they have set exemplary examples with their achievements. That’s exactly the same time you get but if you are still struggling with achieving your goals then it is because you aren’t managing your time properly. You can begin with proper prioritization.
The Way Ahead
You must act now; address the issues individually to reduce the gap between your plans and execution and honor your commitments. You cannot wait a day more if your goals are dear to you. You may lose your motivation and fall back as a serious procrastinator creating a bad name for yourself in the industry, lose your professional edge, and maybe even lose your credibility. Can afford that to happen?
The Way Out of It
The good thing is that there’s nothing more powerful and transforming than your intention of setting things right and your willpower to improve. Begin with prioritizing and for this, you may use diaries or a detailed digital schedule; list your tasks in order of priorities and stick to them. Secondly, what you can do is use calendars to schedule your day according to your work schedule and calendars to mark your targets and stick to it. To make all these happen you must wake up early; it helps to reverse procrastination.
It’s the habits and prolonged habits that can overpower older habits, and create behaviors and patterns. So when you want to change habits or improve then you can go through this again and tell us what are you doing to improve yourself.