Damn Thief

There is a thief among us.  He steals from 100% of us and always gets away with the crime.  He is a master of disguise, but we all know his name, Procrastination.  We all procrastinate at some level. 

It can be as simple as delaying taking out the trash to completely avoiding a person or situation because we do not want to deal with any conflict.  Sure, you can delay taking out the trash as long as you want but at some point, the stench becomes unbearable.  My experience with procrastinating with people and situations under the guise of avoiding conflict is that all the delay does is escalate things internally in me to the point that it will become a conflict.  I realize that timing comes into play in most everything, but if we consistently say the timing is not right, we are doing nothing more than lying to ourselves and using a different word rather than accepting the fact that we are procrastinators. 

As Jamie Leonard told me in 2006, “You deal with it now or it will deal with you later.”  Help arrest that annoying thief, Procrastination, by checking and changing those habits of putting things off.