Procrastination

“If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done.”

PROCRASTINATION is the fertilizer that makes difficulties grow.

Edwin Markum said and I quote,
“When opportunity comes a-knocking at your gate, Welcome him in; for if you make him wait,
He’ll depart only to come once more,
And bring seven other duties to your door.”

Sir Josiah Stamp said, “It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities!”

What you put off until tomorrow, you’ll probably put off tomorrow too. Success comes to the person who does today what others were thinking of doing tomorrow. Lazy people who brag about what they’re going to do tomorrow probably did the same thing yesterday. The lazier a person is, the more he or she is going to do the ‘next day’. Hard work is usually an accumulation of easy things that should have been done last week.

William Halsey said, “All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly; and its spines crumble.”

“Someday” is not a day of the week. When you won’t start, your difficulties won’t stop. Tackle any difficulty now. Procrastinators never have small problems because they always wait until their problems grow up!

The first step to overcoming procrastination is to eliminate all excuses for not taking action. The second step is not to be so busy! Everyone is always on the move. People are moving forward, backward, and sometimes nowhere at all, as though they were on a treadmill. The mistake most people make is in thinking that the main goal of life is to stay busy. This is a trap. What is important is not whether you’re busy but whether you’re progressing.

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. Two things rob people of their peace of mind: Work unfinished, and work not yet begun. Remember, killing time is not murder, it’s suicide.

E.R.Collcord said

“A man with nothing to do does far more strenuous labor than any other form of work. But my greatest pity is for the man who dodges a job he knows he should do. He is a shirker, and boy! What punishment he takes...from himself!

So do the job when you get it. Do it NOW!

In the End, I’d like to quote Pink Floyd,

“One day you find, 10 years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.”

-- Some parts adapted from "The Impossible is Possible" by John Mason.