Ever wondered why credit cards are so effective? They free you from the responsibility of having to pay now, allowing you to delegate the pain to a future version of yourself. That’s the same trick that is also used by your sub conscious when you are trying to find a good reason why postponing something to the next day is a good idea.

Whenever you postpone an action to a later time, what you’re doing is playing a trick to yourself by relaxing responsibility to a future you. It’s like saying: “Hey, I hate doing this, but let’s do it tomorrow”, without considering that tomorrow is the same you that has to deal with whatever you left incomplete.

Sometimes you’re really tired and it makes sense to postpone stressful activities, but this should be an exception. As a general rule you should never do tomorrow what you could have done today, because when tomorrow comes the cycle will repeat and as a result you’ll be left behind.

Do yourself a favor, take some action now that when you wake up tomorrow or next week you’ll be glad that you’ve done already.