According to Wikipedia: Procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions or tasks with low-priority actions, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time.

From Merriam-Webster: to put off intentionally and habitually; to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.

During my elementary, high school, to college days.. I never heard about the word Procrastination. I first heard, or rather, read about it was when I became enthusiastic about blogging. I’m assuming the reason why the word “procrastination” became relatively usual among bloggers it’s because it is one of the common hindrances a blogger must face in his/her blogging career.

Procrastination is not a good word. It is something that will make you less productive. It’s like a hole in your hourglass that wastes away your time. And what’s dangerous about it, is that most of us doesn’t even notice that we are already procrastinating. Even worse when it becomes a habit.

I can personally say that I have been a big time procrastinator before… But I didn’t know. When I was still a student, I remember that I was studying for an exam…then the next thing I knew I’m doodling all over my notebooks and books – then doze off without me knowing. In blogging, whenever I’m in the process of writing a post, I usually checkout other blogs for inspiration… but then I ended up pimping my site instead, because I felt inferior about how other blogs looks so nice. And another instance is when my mom or dad would ask me an immediate favor.. I would always say: “Alright. Later.”

Today, I’m still not 100% procrastination free; never will be. To take it a little further, I think no single person is totally procrastination free. It would be an unending battle between you and procrastination. Even my grandfather sometimes procrastinate before taking his medicines.

When I think about it now, Failure is not your obstacle towards success.. it’s Procrastination.