PRocrastination has served us very poorly so far in this crisis but, despite this, we still seem to be adopting it as our core policy. It comes in many guises and it has many forms but they all achieve the same result – nothing.

We can see this everywhere, from the botched actions on the banking recapitalisation to the delay-and-pray strategy of the property market. We all know this is a huge recession, and probably a depression, but most people don't seem to be doing a lot about it. Apart from talking, which does not really count.

Type "Johnny Kelly Procrastination" into YouTube and you will get a great video on this topic. Johnny is an Irish artist and only an Irishman could know his topic so well and present it so creatively. This video shows both the best of our skills and the worst of our habits. We even seem to have persuaded the IMF to wait and see on public sector transformation. Maybe pigs can fly? Or maybe the IMF is giving the civil service enough rope to hang itself. I am sure they have back-checked the impressive productivity leap that never came from the benchmarking payoff.

Many of us are guilty of procrastination but that does not mean we cannot change. Why not shake ourselves out of this mood and get busy living life for now and investing in the future, rather than wallowing in the past? The past is interesting but won't get us anywhere, and society never seems to learn the lessons it should. Two world wars are a good example of this.

I sat procrastinating last week on RTE's Marian Finucane show with some of the great and good of Irish society. It was pretty depressing stuff. In a theme true to all media outlets at the moment, we waffled, we opined and we even speculated, but in the end we achieved nothing apart from a few hours of radio time filled and a few adverts sold.

These panels are now being taken over by overpaid university professors. How many of these people are there? And do we really pay all their salaries? Every university seems to have had a secret stash of economists and political analysts just waiting for this crisis.

Economies, jobs and wealth are not built on talk but on action, and as we all know, the Irish really can talk. Many people seem to be continually talking about this crisis and doing very little about it. Everybody seems to be waiting for somebody else to do something.

The solution to your problems is you, not the government. Every time I turn on the television or radio, it seems as if somebody is on air telling us what the government should do. Ask yourself an honest question: What are you doing? How are you working to improve your life and therefore everybody else's? If you can fix your own situation, why worry about 'Ireland' and the bigger crisis.

If more of us can sort ourselves out, it will benefit everybody. That is the nature of capitalism and that is our system, whether we like it or not. I will be the first to admit that it is not perfect but it will have to do for this recession.

As for all of the talk about us failing as a society and as a country, what a load of rubbish. We may have been stupid and all bought into a big fat property bubble but that should not be the only measure that we have of ourselves. The bubble came and the bubble went. We may not be able to afford the price, but that is what the EU is for. Our future lies in Irish businesses growing and expanding in the world market. This is nothing new, but we seem to have forgotten it. As a small island, we have to trade with the world and this is our opportunity.

It is only when I sit surrounded by the various media commentators that I really appreciate the positive force that business is. Business is full of action and decision and business people are the ones who will build the new economy and create the new jobs.

It's clear to us all now that the new government will be as bad as the old one but that should not matter. The world is full of bad governments and people have prospered and built great businesses despite this. There are thousands of businesses driving on despite the current crisis. All this work will show sooner than you think.