Time Management - Marc Mancini
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Procrastination:<br />
The Thief of <strong>Time</strong><br />
Everyone does it. Everyone feels guilty when they do it.<br />
And everyone resolves never to do it again. But they do.<br />
Everyone procrastinates. Procrastination—the cat burglar<br />
of time management—steals into your life and whisks<br />
away one of the most valuable assets you possess.<br />
Of course, not everyone regrets putting things off. Indeed,<br />
some people—having decided that it’s so ingrained in<br />
human nature that there’s no use struggling against it—take<br />
pride in their status as procrastinators. There’s even a National<br />
Procrastinators Club. Really. You can find out all about it at<br />
www.procrastinators.org. It has about 10,000 members—no one<br />
is really sure, though, since the full list has never been compiled<br />
or completed. The group occasionally tries to have meetings,<br />
but customarily postpones them. The same person was president<br />
for decades because the club never got around to holding<br />
new elections. And dues ... well, collecting them must be an<br />
interesting process.<br />
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