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Speaker 1: Do it now. Do today's tasks now. Don't try to

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do tomorrow's work today, but be sure and do the

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day's work now. The painful effects of procrastination not fair

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to yourself, demmoralization attendant upon putting off things. The world

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looking for people who can do things now. If you

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have anything to do, do it. If you have any

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task to perform today, do it now. If the matter

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cannot possibly be performed today, stop bothering about it and

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get to work doing the things of today. But don't

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get into that miserable habit of putting off things until

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later in the day or later in the week. Do

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them now. The old proverb procrastination is the thief of

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time is true, but it does not go far enough.

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Procrastination is not only the thief of time, but the

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thief of energy, the thief of efficiency, the thief of success.

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We have had much to say about living in the now,

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about not dwelling in the past or fretting about the future.

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And all this is true, and I will probably say

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it over and over again during the year, because I

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believe in it and wish you to get acquainted with

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the idea. But living in the now does not merely

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mean the thinking of the thoughts of to day, the

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carrying of the burdens of to day, the meeting of

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the problems of to day. It also means the doing

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of the work of to day. To attempt to carry

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last year's burdens or next week's burdens to day is

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fully of the worst kind, as you well know. But

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it is equally foolish. To put off today's work until tomorrow.

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Is not treating tomorrow right, not giving it a chance.

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The self of tomorrow is not exactly the self of

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to day. That is, it has grown a little and

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is the self of today, plus the added experience of

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the day. And it is just as selfish for the

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self of to day to attempt to throw his burdens

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upon the self of tomorrow as it would be for

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you to attempt to throw your burdens upon your brother

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or sister. It is not only selfish, but it is

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hurtful to you. It impedes your growth. Today's work is

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set before you because of the lesson it contains, and

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if you refuse to accept your lesson, you are the loser.

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You cannot get away from the task. It will be

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placed before you again, and again until it is performed,

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and you might as well do it at once and

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get your lesson at the proper time, and not be

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compelled like the schoolboy to catch up in his work.

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By putting off things until tomorrow, you are simply heaping

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up troubles for yourself tomorrow, as tomorrow's own work will

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have to be done as well as your leftover tasks,

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and the chances are that neither of them will be

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done properly. There is no sense whatever in this habit

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of procrastinating. It is fully of the worst kind, and

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not only in the immediate effects. Is procrastination hurtful. One

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one of the worst features of the case is the

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demoralizing effect it has upon the whole mental attitude of

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the man. It cultivates laziness, indecision, shiftlessness, slackness, and many

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other undesirable habits of thought and action. It manifests itself

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in numberless ways. In the character of the man who

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has allowed himself to be tangled in it. It impairs

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his efficiency, affects his value. Then again, you are really

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unfair to yourself. If you get in the way of

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putting off things. You never have any time to yourself.

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If you have a number of old matters demanding your attention.

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The man who procrastinates is never able to spare time

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for mental improvement because he always has some old loose

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end to wind up, some old tangle to straighten out,

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and he loses all idea of the value of time,

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of getting the most out of every hour, every minute.

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The procrastinator is the veriest drudge. He has his nose

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to the grimstone all the time. He never has any

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time he can call his own. He is a slave

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to his own habit of laying things aside. Poor man,

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I am satisfied that half the failures of life, yes,

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three quarters of them, are due to the failure of

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persons to do the thing now, not only because of

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what they lose directly by this habit, but because of

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the effect it produces upon their character. The shiftless habit

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of thought manifests itself in action. The thought and action

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long perceient in will lead to a demoralization of the

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entire character of the individual. He soon forgets how to

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do things right, and that is where so many people fail.

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The world is looking for people who can do things,

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and who can do them now. If you are one

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of the procrastinating kind. Start in at once and get

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over it. Put up a sign before your desk, your

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sewing machine, your work bench, or wherever you spend most

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of your time, and have these words in big black

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letters on the sign. Do it now. By carrying the

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thought of this now way of doing things and letting

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it manifest itself in action as frequently as possible, you

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will find that before long your entire mental attitude regarding

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work as changed, and you will find yourself doing things

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when they should be done without any particular effort on

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your part. The mind can be trained and taught to

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do things right. It needs a little courage, a little perseverance,

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a little will power, but the result will pay you

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for your trouble. Start in to cure yourself of this

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bad habit. Start in at once, Do it now.