Show in 71 TIT ft THE MASTER MASTE R VICE ALL EVILS HAVE THEIR ROOT IN procrastination slave to the habit moralizer moralizes Mora lizes and announces noun ces his HG conclusions can never rise ab aava ve the rank of pi prodder odder the bane ol of nl existence said the man has been bee n my habit of putting things off I 1 never do today to day what I 1 can put of till tomor to moi mor ro row the result is that I 1 am always putting off and never doire any mare than Is necessary for rny my current daily hand to mouth support and so as the saying Is I 1 never have anything I 1 am not independent but always dependent pen dolif upon somebody cne for the work that will enable me to live and so I 1 can caa never say my lay soul Is my own I 1 must do the work I 1 am set to do by some stronger man whether I 1 like it or not and so FO I 1 plod ang aling just getting through while tho the man maa who collars things gets on of late years as I 1 leve come to re realize a ilze its evil effects arid and the enormous difficulty of overcoming ing it I 1 have come to think that the master vice of 0 all Is procrastination and coming to think thus has disturbed me a little because I 1 have to give up an originally preconceived and long cherished notion 1 I had long ion held that the most nearly ineradicable of personal vices was gambling but now I 1 thought the most difficult of all vices to cure oneself of was that of procrastination was as I 1 wrong then and could it bo be that I 1 was wrong now this I 1 say disturbed me a little but now on ua alis 13 point I 1 rest quite easy for i have discovered cc radic tory as ahls at first thought night might seem I 1 have discovered that I 1 was right then and that I 1 am right now for now I 1 discover that the vice tice of gambling is but another phase of or at least the outcrop of that of procrastination crasti nation tile the groat great majority of those given over to hope to get for noth na 1 they hope to get money without c rt t they put off from day to day the rd unflinching work that would give them a sure thing without chances on the race of life and arake just enough to indulge their vies vice and ther their vain hopes so gambling is really hut but a form or outcome of the vice of procrastination and by the same line of reasoning I 1 suppose we might say the same of drunkenness which is essentially a procrastinating vice wo put things off today to day today to day we will drink we will work to morrow and I 1 dont know but what we should find that t every ill proceeds f from ram the vic alca ot of procrastination and so eo this which might seem but a form of laziness is really the master vice and I 1 am onest its most closely bound victims I 1 dont drink and I 1 dont gamble but I 1 have got the fatal habit of putting things off inertia dt diness iness lack of power from want of exercise come from it the procrastinating man is always at the same dead low level he Is always going to do something never doing it just pulling through with tho the work he has to do and gaining corre spon small rewards ile he never krows knows the tha jt j of doin things nor gathers in its profits but habit bound he settles down in lifelong slavery and I 1 am one oae of those iati victims Is oc casio nally I 1 do rouss rouse up u rad aud do some out of my set tina mo and in the tha accomplishment of sora rugged task that I 1 thus is take c up 1 had find a great new joy a and nd pride and I 1 an L going to keep heep this up but next day I 1 sink to the old level again and stay there it Is so much easier to put things thing s off than to do things lings ti and this the trunk bad habit of which all others aro are b t t branches is so deep rooted gut but I 1 am not lot without hope 1 I have lopped off those brane branches of which chic h I 1 and I 1 am prying pryl prying ing around the roots of the trunk trank 11 |