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I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted. (Psalm 119:60)
Welcome to day eight of Let's Talk, where we are taking advantage of another chance to begin in 2010 by exploring the thirty-one major reasons for failure as noted in the book "Think and Grow Rich". Today , we will discuss procrastination.
If you noticed, these posts usually are published at 3:00 A.M. I published the last two posts to build the setting for this particular post. It is so very easy for us to put off until tomorrow what we can very well do right now. Most of the time when we delay a task, we are not doing anything that important to warrant putting it off. This is described as "Old Man Procrastination" by Napoleon Hill.
In Think and Grow Rich, Mr. Hill says that procrastination "stands within the shadows of every human being, waiting his opportunity to spoil one's chances at success. Some would describe the person who delays as lazy. For some, this may be true. But there are others of us who are not lazy although we cannot explain why we put things off.
The definition of procrastination is to defer action; delay: to postpone until an opportunity is lost. Many of us loose out on the very thing we sit around and ask for, pray for, because we refuse to or cannot recognize procrastination in action. A lot of times we want to justify our over cautiousness by saying "I have to have all my ducks in a row." In studying the text, we learn that we do not have to have all the answers to get started.
In fact, it is recommended that we get started as soon as possible. There are lessons that we will not learn until we get moving. I have a friend who always says, "You can't stirred a parked car." What this means is, until we get to moving, we don't know what adjustments need to be made. Success is attained via trial and error. There are things that we can do to minimize the error, but we must put our plan into action if we are to taste success.
Hill says that we fail most of our life because we sit around and wait for the "right time". Let's get the jury's verdict on this right now. There is no "right time" so stop waiting! We must put our plan into action and work with what we have. We have everything we need to succeed already within us or available to us. Until we get to moving, we will never see all the resources we actually possess.
If procrastination is a problem, there are courses we can take that will help us to get past that obstacle. You can visit sites by industry leaders like Dani Johnson and Brian Tracy to find valuable information. We must learn to better manage our time and we will get more things done. With that said.... Go, Go, Go!
Join me again tomorrow for another issue of Let's Talk where we will discuss Lack of Persistence. I welcome your feedback. Please leave me any comments and/or questions and let me know what’s on your mind. If you know anyone who would benefit from this information, please share this site with them.
Until next time,
God Bless
T.J. Robinson
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