People who can’t take immediate action always say, “I’ll do it later.
“Behind the feeling of “I’ll do it later” is the feeling that “I feel like I can do it later” or “I can do it faster if I do it later.
But in reality, this is not true.
If you do it later, you won’t be able to improve your ability, and you’ll be back in the “now” with little change in your situation.
Why do we keep putting things off when they will not change if we do them later?
We think that our future self will always be more capable and better than our current self.
he truth is that we imagine happiness not in the present, but always in the future.
Our imagination is always more colorful than the present.
This is due to our psychological tendency to think that the future is always better than the present, and that the future self is always more capable and wonderful than the present self.
But unfortunately, that is just an illusion. When that future becomes the present, what we see in front of us is a reality that has hardly changed at all.
There are still many unanswered questions and unfinished business.
Why do we expect our future selves to change when our current situation remains unchanged? The reason is that it is a normal psychological function to protect the ego.
“It can be said that people can survive because they believe that the future situation will be better than the present.
Humans are basically optimistic animals. We live because we have hope, and we work because we believe that things will get better.
I have often seen people say that they feel they can do a job or study they dislike in the middle of the night.
This is also the psychology of “I feel like I can do it later.
“Sometimes it’s because they are night owls, and sometimes it’s because they won’t be interrupted by phone calls, but most of the time it’s because they think that their future self can handle it.
Make it easy for your future self to act
ecause of the aforementioned human psychology, it may be inevitable that this kind of postponement occurs.
So, what can we do about it?
The first thing to do is to keep in mind that this kind of psychology tends to work in humans.
Just knowing this will help you act while keeping the psychology in check.
So, don’t expect the future you.
If you know that your future self is not what you can expect, you will naturally change the actions you take now.
It is also important to take steps so that the “situation a little further down the road” will be better.
In other words, you should prepare yourself so that your future self can start working on it right away.
By making it easy for your future self to take action, you can truly achieve a state where “happiness is always a little ahead.