Crastination: a prized time in between precrastination and procrastination.

It’s true that the early bird gets the shaft and fills his tummy.  Contrarily, what about the late mouse who is often escaped from getting into a trap?  Everyone wants to put things on track every time and one deliberately looks for understanding the difficult task at the very first hand.

        Measure twice, cut once? Ritualistically putting tasks off for a later time can be taxing and getting tasks done more quickly than what is required can make one repent later. Students burning the midnight oil to get their assignments submitted before the impending deadline and a potter making pots hastily without basking it in the sun can never yield a fruitful reward.

         Procrastinating work and reaping euphoric rush or precastinating work and reaping euphoric redo?  Crastination is about emotional stability not about the desired productivity. It is process-oriented as well as product-oriented! Crastination is doing the right thing at the right time and in the right place! It focuses on de-working and unworking unlike reworking in case of precrastination and procrastination. It’s about making the difficult tasks easier and suppressing of blame-game when failing to meet the desired result. It involves seeking priorities or preferences over ignorance or avoidance in producing a fruitful outcome. It focuses to overcome one’s perception of overestimating or underestimating how long certain activities will take to complete.  It requires one to work with high attention and self-motivation! Thus, it’s all about making a rational choice and being satisfied with your work!

        Crastination helps to overcome one’s social disease so-called underperformance. By crastinating time, one decides to avoid self-deception which requires one to have a false belief to perform better at last under intense pressure; or perhaps overcome ego of believing that one is relieved from stress if thing is done at first. There’s neither fear of failure nor pride for success if one crastinate his work!

Crastination is all about:

        i.         Feeling to do work

      ii.         Remembering to work

    iii.         Caring works to be get done

     iv.         Knowing what needs to be done

      v.         Knowing how to do something

     vi.         Igniting the initiative to get things started

   vii.         Being in the habit of doing the first thing first

 viii.         Undertaking task beforehand at the right time

     ix.         Prioritizing important tasks over the least important ones

      x.         Believing that you work better when things are done without pressure

     xi.         Knowing that you shouldn’t work hastily or keeping work to be done at last.

     

Crastination is not all about rushing to complete your assignment at the eleventh hour or hastily writing your assignment at the earliest and you are asked to redo your work!

Sarvamangalam