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Procrastination:

The Thief of Time

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

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