Eric Olszewski stopped putting things off when he learned to see life as one big deadline. A perpetual procrastinator, he would let time fly by until panic set in, at which point he finally buckled down and did whatever it took to get through the work he was avoiding. He learned he was suffering from too much freedom.
. . . simply overwhelmed by the multitude of options in my life . . . it was preventing me from doing much of anything.” Eric Olszewski
Source: Forge, January 12, 2020. Link. Olszewski shares two methods he now uses to structure his daily schedule and to visualize the milestones he seeks in his lifespan. He uses the tools to push himself to take action on the work that’s really important to me.
INSIGHTS: My phone vibrated with three notices as I reviewed worked on this post. I shut off the vibrations to avoid further distractions. The graph of Olszewski’s Friday rush triggered thoughts about the costs of urgency, a topic I’m known to consider. Urgency is too frequently caused by procrastination. Our world continually reconstructs to accommodate a societal lack of planning.
Same day, next day, fast food and home-delivery are some of the tools employed to save time and ultimately fill in for failing to plan ahead. Next day service in animal health was originally deployed to get life saving items to a destination just in time. An example is antivenin. In today’s context, a reorder point of “0 quantity on hand” is habitually the first signal for an order to be placed. It represents an intention to procrastinate on setting logical reorder points and routinely replenish key inventory items.