Today was the introduction of the fundamental idea that all the things we do is to essentially derive pleasure and avoid pain. This is the third time I’ve listened to this particular lesson, from the previous attempts of completing the entire program, and I think it still strikes a chord with me and all the actions that I do. Especially when he goes into details of how we try to get pleasure from procrastinating and how we try to avoid pain or failures from it.

In particular, I find that I tend to procrastinate because I tend to over think all that I have to do in order to complete a task or project. Deep down, I somehow think that what I’ll end up with something that will not be as successful or polished as I intended the end product to be. Therefore, I tend to drag things on somehow trying to delay the inevitable. This has lead to many instances where the end product was nothing instead of something less than my imaginary final product. This particular cycle and pattern in behavior has lead me to miss a lot of deadlines and homework assignments during high school and college.

A part of me blamed myself of being a perfectionist. As, nothing is better something that is not perfect. But truthfully, nothing is a lot worse than something that is not perfect. Something late is also not better than something on time and not perfect. And that was usually the case, a lot of times, my end result was either a term paper, homework assignment or project that was late, and never perfect.

Up to this day, I still struggle to turn in something perfect and right on time. Hopefully, these lessons will help me achieve it.

Day 2 of Personal Power!

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