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Procrastination is the deferment or avoidance of an action or task to a later time.
Lately i’ve been avoiding my tasks! I know what I want to do, but I just don’t want to get them done. Well, actually I do… but not really.
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
David Allen
http://webapps2.ucalgary.ca/~steel//Procrastinus/quotes.php
Have you ever been to places where the first two times, and even the third seem perfect, but then by the fifth and sixth times not so good? Is it me or has the quality of the product/service/place changed? Eventually you get tired and stop visiting them. Then you find a new place to visit where everything is perfect, but by the fifth visit, it’s the same sick cycle once again.
I’ve been to several cities filled with these places, and surprisingly they are still open, with no customers or an abandoned building prevails reminding you of what once was there and with no promises of sale or investments in it.
The city where I was born is a very sad example. Lots of hotels and restaurants…..
I guess the blame goes to the owner who refuses to innovate when everything else is changing and all businesses around it continue moving foward. Or he simply refused to get out of the comfort zone he stayed in once his business was successful just because he never noticed he had to move foward on time. Maybe he forgot about his vision, and slowly got tired of keeping intact his business stragedy, the reason why customers made it a prosperous place.
Or maybe the people, culture are the ones to be blamed; looking for new places constantly, getting tired of the places they once went to… Or looking for a change.
What can be done. If it’s a good place, how can they help it become a tradition, and never loose their name in time. How to maintain the quality, cleaness, shine of the place, so that people never get tired of going. How to keep moving with the always changing and advancing culture and at the same time, keep the tradition. A progressing tradition?
I guess it’s not an easy task, and there are too many factors involved. Inconsistent factors, that you never know what to expect..
