Trigger Question #131:
Amazing are the people who don’t procrastinate. The ones who don’t put off until tomorrow that which they should really do today.
Take a moment to check your amazingness level. List all the things you regularly move to the not-today bucket. Please do this exercise now. Not tomorrow. Not someday.
Rapidly list five things that spring to mind, tasks that you regularly skip doing. Like exercise daily; drink more water; write that report. Whatever.
By the way, is your not-today bucket labeled “The Future”? Or “Someday Maybe”? If so, you are a realist. Is your bucket labelled “Tomorrow”? You are surely an optimist. (What is a pessimist? Someone who doesn’t believe in buckets?)
Have you finished with your list? Good. Here’s your trigger question: Did you add “be happy now” to your the list?
If you did not, then I will assume one of two things:
- You are already happy now (hence no need not add “be happy” to your list).
- You are happy to delay your happiness.
If you are procrastinating your happiness, then please meditate on the following true story, as reported in The Economist of May 28th, 2016:
Fritz Stern, a German-born American historian, received another grand prize. His wife asked him, “Are you happy?” He replied, “If not now, when?”
Welcome to my side of the nonsense divide.
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