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Effects of Procrastination
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
Effects of Procrastination. Having our studies press us in consequence of procrastination.
Having our studies press us in consequence of procrastination.
It is impossible to have the mind free and unembarrassed, if you suffer your studies to be driving you. If you defer your lesson to the very last moment in which, you can possibly get it, you are not your own master. A man may do a full day s work in the afternoon : but if he puts it off till that time, he will be unhappy all the morning, over-labouring in the afternoon, and ill in the evening. He who does anything in haste, no matter what his powers of mind may be, can not do it well. If I have fifty miles to ride to-day, I can do it all after dinner ; but to undertake it would be unwise, and cruel to myself and my horse. There should be no loitering in the morning, because you can retrieve the loss in the evening. Punctuality in getting your lessons is of the very first importance. " It is like packing things in a box : a good packer will get in half as much more as a bad one. The calmness of mind which it produces is another advantage of punc tuality. A disorderly man is always in a hurry : he has no time to speak with you, because he is going elsewhere; and when he gets there, he is too late for his business, or he must hurry away elsewhere before he can finish it. Punctuality gives weight to character. Such a man has made an appointment ; then I know he will keep it. And this generates punctuality in you ; for, like other virtues, it propagates itself. Appointments, indeed, become debts: I owe you punctuality, if I have made an appointment with you, and have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own."
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