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The first step in ruling out a particular bad habit is by being aware of the existence of that habit. Yet, simply being conscious of the existence of the bad habit does not immediately weed out the bad tendency from our daily life. The weeding out of old bad habits is further compounded if the vice has become deeply ingrained in the subconscious mind. It would take extra effort our part to consciously alter the bad habit with the opposite good habit. In the religious parlance, bad habits are called vices while good habits are called virtues. A person is considered good if he has more number of virtues than vices, after all, the great philosopher—Aristotle—once said: "We are what we repeatedly do." This basically means that our very own personality is the product of all the habits we have imbibed in our lifetime.

One of the common habitual tendencies of common man is the habit of procrastination. Procrastination is the attitude of habitually and intentionally putting off important tasks which one should focus on in favor of a more pleasant activity. Psychologist Professor Clarry Lay, a well-known writer on the subject of procrastination hinted that procrastination entails a gap between the time period in which a person should do the job and the actual doing of a job. Say for instance, a person has to do a project right now. However, due to other factors or habits such as laziness, the person would put off the work which he must do right now to a later time producing a domino adverse effect on the fulfillment of scheduled jobs. On the other hand, a person who has developed attitudes of promptness and industriousness would feel uneasy until the job at hand has not been fulfilled and completed. Kurt Lewin, a famous Psychologist once said that an open-task tension exists when an important job has not yet been completed.

However, most people have learned to ignore this open-task tension and have developed the habit of procrastination. For this reason, learning to curtail the ill effect of procrastination by going down to the root cause of the attitude and replacing it with the opposite positive attitude can help us improve our character and consequently aid us in the succeeding in life.

How do we counteract the lingering effect of procrastination?

A habit, once it has taken its root in our being, will become second nature to us. When I say second nature, I mean it comes out naturally as if it is a part of our nature. For this reason, habits make our life easier; for when we have already acquired the habits, we would no longer need the initial great amount of effort that we had used when we first tried to fulfill a particular task. Habit facilitates the performance of an act. Therefore, it is necessary that we be wary of the development of any habit. It takes a month to develop a habit and it usually takes a year to solidify a habit as a second nature. The deeper the rootedness of a habit, the more difficult it would be to weed it out. Thus, in the case of procrastination, it would take a lot of effort on our part to alter this bad habit. Awareness and acceptance of the existence of this habit in our life would be the initial step to weed out this persistent tendency. Likewise, developing a keen focus on the job at hand and being aware of the open-task tension while responding to this tension positively can gradually diminish the lingering effect of procrastination.

Take a look at the Empty Mind Meditation process. This meditation technique not only enables us to focus our mind intently on a single task, but it allows us also to be aware of the habits and tendencies which are imbedded in our subconscious mind. Procrastination can be rooted in our tendency to avoid pain. In our growing process, we have been gradually programmed to avoid pain and like pleasure. This natural tendency is rooted in our infancy when we feel satisfied when we are given milk after feeling the pangs of hunger. Yet, mature people do not shun away from pain and difficulty. They are able to delay gratification for future satisfaction. In the same way, the practice of Empty Mind Meditation, with its concomitant exercises and disciplines, will stamp down the bad habit of procrastination and develop the opposite habit. Empty Mind Meditation engenders mental discipline and procrastination is averse to discipline. Thus, internal discipline developed through the constant practice of Empty mind meditation counteracts the bad effect of procrastination and enables a person to internally motivate the body to do the job which would be otherwise delayed.

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