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Delayed Life Syndrome: How to End the Habit of Postponing Things

Stop delaying everything.

By Reese WhiteheadPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Delayed Life Syndrome: How to End the Habit of Postponing Things
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The time will come and I will start doing sports.

When I have time, I will start learning English.

After I repair the kitchen, I will start cooking at home.

Does the situation seem familiar to you? This is called "delayed life syndrome." Virtually everyone faced him. In recent years it has become more pronounced, although more free time has appeared, many have not implemented their former intentions. This has an extremely negative impact, undermining self-confidence.

Deferred life syndrome is considered a mental disorder that develops in childhood. Many of us have heard expressions such as "after you graduate from school, you can do whatever you want" or "find a good job first, then think about your personal life" or "embrace a job first." good profession and only then will you take care of the trifles ".

Thus, some adults live their whole lives waiting for a certain event, a beginning, which will make them happy, when they will be able to do what is pleasing to the soul, etc.

What dangers does this syndrome hide?

He keeps you from being happy today. Life passes in anticipation of moment X, only it will never come. Even if it happens, nothing will change, you will have the same emptiness in your soul because man has not cultivated the habit of being happy every day. Being happy is a skill that can be mastered and cultivated step by step.

How To Get Rid Of Deferred Life Syndrome?

Don't keep things for better times

You can light candles every day (if you like), not just on special days. Beautiful lingerie is worn every day, but not only when someone sees it, pamper yourself and wear it for you! This will bring you a sense of self-satisfaction and life, respectively.

Take sophisticated dishes out of the maid not only when you do general cleaning and use them every day. Immediately discard any old cracked plates. Using a damaged object will absorb proper energy. A salad served from a cracked bowl will be less beneficial than the one served nicely in a dish that will please your eye.

Catch the moment

Live here and now. Life is not the past, in which we all had moments of pain, boredom, and illness. But neither is the future, in which the mental man finds himself face to face with his fears and anxieties. Life means the present.

The present will be as you make it. Indulge in your favorite ice cream today, give yourself a little moment of joy. If you don't rejoice because "you don't have time", "I don't want anything", "later", "now I have more important things", then you will not be happy.

Analyze why you can't catch the moment

If you can't take a 10-minute break to enjoy an ice cream, it should make you think. Try to understand the cause. A psychologist could help you do that.

Think globally, but act accordingly

"When I move to a new apartment, then I will make an ideal order, which I will want to maintain. But now I can step on the boxes gathered in the hall. But the balcony, who needs a balcony? It's def the place for skis. "

There will be no order because man is not in the habit of maintaining cleanliness. Even if he has it, why should he live in a mess until he moves into a new house? Why is he punished in this way because he does not love his life? Why is it the joy of living in cleanliness? Even if the repair is not proper, it is nothing. Does that stop you from getting the best out of it?

Life is not a preparation for something great. It's not a rehearsal. Every new day is a Grand Finale! There can be no other day like this. Are you sure you lived happily ever after? Will you have something to remember in a year? Or even in the most important moments of your life, did you look sadly or fearfully into the future?

Don't procrastinate. Live your life today.

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