“I will do it tomorrow”? A self-doubt everyone goes through when we can’t find the time for “need to do” chores today. When we keep postponing things, it creates stress, dissatisfaction and frustration with ourselves.

Can there be another approach to finding time today?Let us reframe our doubt into a clear statement.

• “If it is important to me, I can start being regular from today”.

It means we can do the following three things here.

• Evaluate the priority and importance of that task in our life. It could be, that we don’t want it, someone else wants us to do that ask. For example “ My mother wants me to organise the wardrobe, although I clean it when I can’t find my favourite dress”.
  Until then I keep postponing it.
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• We want to do that task for ourselves but we don’t value it as much as we should. For example, we want to look good, lose weight and fit into that jeans. We know we must get up early and go for a walk. But we don’t do that often. We end up valuing the last episode of my favourite series late at night than my early morning walk.
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• As humans, most of us survive on instant gratification and pleasure-seeking behaviour. For example, It is easier to feel good by scrolling through Instagram images rather than applying consistent efforts whose results might be seen at the end of the month.

• Here I am referring to the example of wanting to look good by losing weight, which will require patience, and consistency for the efforts to deliver the results. Although it will boost your self-esteem and competence level to enjoy various pleasures of life with a good well-being index.Still we keep postponing it and eroding our confidence.
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• We over-estimate our ability to complete that task at the last moment when the deadline hangs on our heads since that tomorrow never comes. We end up feeling stressed, and anxious when we can’t manage to finish it with satisfactory outcomes. At last, what we live is with regrets and dissatisfaction with ourselves and our achievements.

Lastly, I would leave you all with one question. Do you want “I could have done better” to be a constant frustrating thought process in your life?

Would you change your outlook towards things at the beginning and have this aha moment later, “ I am so happy I achieved my goal”.