How To Stop Procrastinating…? Napoleon Bonaparte, Einstein, Ayn Rand, Rockefeller, Bill Bartmann, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey… what do they all have in common? Apart from achieving mastery at what they do as well as financial fortune, they have managed to find peace with their own past. All come from poverty or relative poverty, some having had really difficult childhoods. But despite this, all of them have managed to achieve the highest ranks of greatness.
Instead of denying or shying away from their past, they used their memories to build solid foundations of their powerful futures. No matter how hard it might have been to tap into those past memories, they drew on them to nourish their lives. Memory is like a bridge that spans two lands: the past and the future. What you decide to do with the memory defines where you will be in the coming years.
So how to use memories as a tool that builds rather than destroys?
To answer this question let me tell you two famous stories that stem from a common path: an ancient Greek myth about Pandora and a tragic accident from the April 10, 2010.
The first story:
In ancient Greece there existed a myth of Pandora who was sent to the earth by Zeus to punish humans for Prometheus’ sin of stealing fire from the gods.
Pandora was a daughter of the gods, beautiful, strong and married Prometheus’ brother Epimetheus. Zeus -her father, gave her a jar as a marriage gift and told her never to open it. But she was curious…
…so she opened the jar.
When it was open, all sorts of evils and terrible events escaped and spread out all over the earth. But the jar contained something more. There was Hope in the bottom of it, and hope is the power that is able to defeat evil.
The second story:
On April 10, 2010 an airplane carrying 96 people crashed. The passengers included the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria Kaczynska, top army officials of all divisions, ministers, senators, priests, intellectuals and heroic figures of past political uprisings – people who led the fall of communism in 1989, like Anna Walentynowicz and the last president of the Polish government-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski. They were flying to Katyn, a rural Russian town, which is a symbol of the tragedy of war. Exactly 70 years ago, on April 10, 1940, the Soviet Secret Police murdered more than 22,000 Polish citizens including top ranked army officials – generals, officers, intellectuals – as well as university professors, scholars, writers, diplomats, etc.
For 70 years the open discussion about this crime was hidden from the public, not only by communist Russia, but also by Western Europe to sustain political order in their fragile attempt to build “peace”.
In Poland people were killed or imprisoned for speaking about that crime. By not talking about the difficult events from the past, obtaining political stability became impossible. Russia and Poland and thus the rest of Europe were in a state of constant instability.
The recent airplane crash allowed people to see view the unresolved problems of the past with its crimes in a new light, and also showed the consequences of not giving the people justice. For the first time, this awakening provided a stable platform for growth and unity in Europe and the rest of the world. Simply because the facts from the past were being openly talked about for the first time.
The accident opened the proverbial Pandora’s box, setting fears free by making them visible and open for discussion.
How do these stories correspond with our private lives?
We can achieve an entirely different course of existence by bringing the unresolved issues from our past out into the light and facing them. By speaking about past events, we can prevent them from happening again. When the blame and fear are hidden and not talked about, they grow out of proportion. This process – of memories giving us more pain than they should and preventing us from achieving our full potential – is natural to our creative mind and imagination.
Thus, in order to achieve our goals and happiness in life we must open Pandora’s box and set the anxiety free. And conversation is vastly important when it comes to building up a solid future. Procrastination is often built upon unresolved fears, and undiscovered desires, hidden deep down inside in our hearts and souls. The answer to the question- How To Stop Procrastinating is simple- do what you fear most.
The potential of the human mind is endless and thus achieving what we want is always possible. But there are certain roadblocks in people’s lives that should be resolved before their life can begin at full speed.
I do not know all the answers, but what I know for sure is …when you ask better questions you get better answers.
…what is your biggest fear?…and why?
Part I of the article can be found here: Learning to Stop Procrastinating
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wow!
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soo true!
thanks!
hey Katleen
Thanks for coming over!
isn’t it like traveling with a light backpack? so much easier and quicker…:)
take care
Chris
hey Chris!
I have learned in my life, that when you have a heavy bag on your life- back, you cannot really go forward.
And if you are ready to do it, if you are already aware of what life can be, you try to do everything you can to resolve the conflicts!
Life’s too short
thank you dear
Keep posting
Nicole
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thanks Nicole
Chris