How I’ve Been Fighting Procrastination and Overthinking - Alhamdulillah it Helped
As-salamu alaykum - TL;DR: meditation and remembering Allah helped me understand what it really means to live in the moment. I was so done with my procrastination and overthinking. Whenever I tried to study or sit down to get work done, I’d just put it off. I’d find myself scrolling through short videos or drifting into random thoughts. Other times I’d sit and go completely blank, swallowed up by worries. These habits made getting anything done really hard. I wanted to focus and work for my studies and future, but constant worrying about what will happen, whether I’ll get a job, whether I’m doing the right thing - it kept blocking me. Things changed when I decided to try meditation (and make dhikr and brief dua part of that routine) to help my focus and give me some distance from my thoughts. Honestly, it was a great choice. It’s been six months now, and one simple but powerful realization helped me beat overthinking and procrastination: all we truly have is this moment. There is no past or future in the way we imagine them. What we call the future we only ever live as the present. We never actually experience the future as future; thoughts about it stay in our heads. In practice, we can only act now - in the present. That might sound basic, and I’d heard “live in the moment” so many times before, but I never really got it. Meditation, along with remembering Allah, made it sink in. It stopped being just an idea and became something I felt. Once that clicked, I could focus on what’s in front of me. I stopped obsessing over what might happen. I accepted that I can only do my part now. What’s beyond my control I’ll leave to Allah, but what I can do, I won’t waste. So I do whatever I can, in this moment. This has helped me a lot. Just wanted to share - JazakAllah khair for reading.