Better late than never?

In the years 2000 and 2001 I wrote a series called 365 ways to boost you self esteem. I would add a short article every day. I suppose it was really a blog but I was not using a blogging software. I’m slowly transferring as many of the seven hundred posts to the blog from the main Life Focus Center site. The bit about the computer glitch refers to the year 2000 when each post had to be written on the local computer and then uploaded to the web site. Also the idea for the series was to have one post per day:

Remember the earlier you do something when you realize you are late, the better off you are.

We had a slight computer glitch on the day this segment was supposed to go out, and it would have been very easy to just delay the next segments until the problem was solved.

We could have said, “What’s the difference between one day and three? We will do it when we can.” Then the next day it would have been even easier to delay and procrastinate after all the difference between four days and three is much smaller than that between one and three. And eventually you say never mind.

I know that used to happen to me when I was supposed to phone someone. I would get late, then later and eventually I would be too ashamed to phone my friend. This not following through ends up lowering your self esteem as you teach yourself that you re the type of person who procrastinates tasks to oblivion.

So the best time to recover from a delay is as early as possible.

Along the same lines remember that when aiming for a goal, one fumble is only a warning that you are off target and need to change your approach.

Remember an important aspect of goal achievement is the understanding that there is no such thing as failure (unless you give up) there are only results which you can use as feedback to let you know what action to take next.

Thus there are many people who stop smoking and then six months later in a moment of extreme stress smoke a single cigarette and they immediately see themselves as smokers once more. The correct attitude would be to accept the given events and learn better ways of coping with stress and continue remaining a nonsmoker.

So if you end up being late take action as soon as possible and boost your self-esteem.

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