For many days, I had been seriously considering to register a domain for my web development. Finally, after many days of speculation, I had come up with almost perfect domain name. It was about two weeks ago. At the time, registration for one year was priced about $7.99. However, because of my personal reason, I hesitated to obtain it thinking there might be better options. I was wrong. And now it costs about $59.99 for one year.
I couldn’t understand what happened to me. The price that I saw about two weeks ago was sale price and I didn’t know well about the price difference in registering .at, an Austrian domain. In other words, I wasn’t fully informed about domain pricing and business. I can’t help but still thinking what if I didn’t hesitate to register the domain at the moment of conceiving the domain name.
Another lesson I learned is about the danger of procrastination. My hosting company sent me an email about its affiliate program offering $10 for putting the banner linked to its website. Not reading the details of the email, I thought about doing it a few days later. But the email offer was valid only for 3 days. Noticing how easy it was like notifying the hosting company that I put the banner in my website, I was embarrassed to ignore the value of $10 which can be used for supporting my hosting charges. Lost the easy money.
Here I would like to stress the reasons why hesitation or procrastination is ALWAYS BAD:
It happens because one is not informed enough.
Due to having narrow viewpoint or stereotypical idea, one cannot act even though the decision to do it needs to be made as soon as possible to progress the task.
It cannot be replaced by better activities.
To be honest, I cannot confidently say I always did something better or meaningful things while in the state of hesitation of procrastination.
You cannot expect the future.
Accidents happen and the remaining time becomes so much shorter than anticipated.Often it’s caused by other factors, but blaming them is not the right excuse for lack of preparing for accidents.
It leads to abandoning the initial plan.
Unless I had the strong need and will to obtain the domain name before it was too late, I would’ve abandoned my plan for developing a web service. It frightens me how shameful and regretful it could be.
It is not a good thing to talk about.
Almost nobody wants to hear about the reasons or excuses for hesitation or procrastination state. The professionals working together will definitely think negatively about the one who is mindlessly talking about what he or she could do if he or she had enough time but didn’t.
Does anyone think differently? What’s differences between hesitation and procrastination? What are your experiences? Can anyone likes to suggest links?
Great post, Peter. The days go by, with or without us. When I think about procrastination, I think about the book I wanted to write. I thought I never had time. So I wrote a paragraph a day for two years, and what do you know? The paragraphs became pages. voila!
Of course, that doesn’t mean that anyone wanted that book, but a million little wins added up to the achievement of a huge goal.
Thanks for writing.
Thank you for your encouraging story. Would you like to tell me the title of the book?
The small daily progression you’ve described to me is the good example how I wanted achieve the goal.
Hesitations give us benefits if used wisely. Procrastination does not bring us anything but regret and disappointments. Being hesitant prevents us from moving too hastily but procrastination destroys our dreams. :-)
Thank you for showing me the difference between hesitation and procrastination. After writing this post, I wanted to write more about this difference.