Procrastination
I like to set goals for myself: I’ll run three times a week, I’ll work on the website a little bit every day. I’ll play the piano for twenty minutes every morning and afternoon. . . Those kind of goals.
But it’s easy to set goals for tomorrow: Tomorrow, I’ll start doing push-ups. Tomorrow, I’ll get to work preparing for my new online classes. Tomorrow, I’ll clean the apartment. Right now, well, I just don’t feel like it.
There’s no problem with relaxing. For me, the problem is when tomorrow becomes today and it’s time to do all the things I said I would do. Then, I feel like relaxing again. And I start to tell myself I’ll do everything tomorrow, again. And that’s really, of course, the day after.
The name for this process is procrastination, and I think it’s something that almost everyone does. A very good example is in the video above. The same person made several of these videos, and they’re great listening examples, because he speaks normally, but his English is easy to understand and he uses good, everyday English.
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