This is a YouTube video titled "The power of valuing time" containing a monologue by Beverley Simpson recorded on September 12, 2023. Beverley discusses the importance of valuing time, the emotional reasons behind procrastination, and the personal costs of losing time to overthinking and missed deadlines.
And so back to your question about how do you regulate time? For me, it's valuing time first and foremost. And the thing with procrastination is that when we're inclined to procrastinate, we're saying, I'm going to give up the current moment and some future moments of time so that I can get some emotional space. And it's fine to want emotional space and to need that, but oftentimes, the cost of the time that we're giving up is actually too much, and we're not calculating how important that time is to us. And the fact that we have no guarantee that that amount of time that we're giving up is not going to expand for months, even years. I feel like in my life, I've lost so many good days of my life to overthinking, to not sleeping, to abusing myself in certain ways, to hemming and hawing, to missing deadlines.
