3 Quotes by Stany Austinson

Most people’s biggest hurdle is that the person they take themselves to be does not exist. They are never that person who they think is going to do all that work. They make all their decisions based on that imagined person. And that person fails to show up. To succeed, you need to be your own master. You need to create that person who will succeed.

The world creates a self for us by virtue of the choices it forces us to make. We stay wedded to that self that has arisen in response to the world, never making any serious attempt at a reinvention. We behave as if we cannot assemble another self together. We remain oblivious of the fact that a lot of what we take to be us are in fact, reactions to the situations that life brings our way. But unless we realise this, we would never question the appropriateness or usefulness of these reactions.

Procrastination begins with the little self in charge of your awareness, deciding that it does not want to deal with all the emotions that confronting something might throw up. It gives the standard reply that the self which should be doing whatever task that you are supposed to be doing is not around but would hopefully be back if the problem or task goes away and comes back later. The problem results when you try to press-gang the little self into doing a task it is unsuited for.