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Show .jr!ALll ' )uy J. SCOFIEIP R0VV2. PRESIDENT, . ' j ; Ute Metropolitan dsn ilty Insurance Company of KJ. iblfh:'L.,J START TODAY Procrastination, the Thief of Time how well we know him! His is that familiar voice Unit whispers, "Tomorrow is time enough you need not start today!" Mafinna, says flic ease-loving Spaniard with a languid shrug, "tomorrow." But tomorrow never comes. It is as unreal as that yesterday which is gone forever, a memory merely. Nothing more will ever happen yesterday yester-day it is dead. Nothing will ever happen tomorrow the only reality Is "today 1 Today is our little page of eternity whereon we record the strength of our manhood in the face of difficulties or our weakness and self-indulgence in postponing until tomorrow what needs to be done today. In "mafiana" is a lethal drug to lull us to oblivion in "today" is a magic elixir to spur us to accomplishment. So Insidious are the ways of tin's Thief, Procrastination, that often he has his will with us while we are still unaware that he has spoken.. A little languor! wc would rather rest than make any more effort today the Thief has us. A little rain; we cannot quit our comfortable chair to go forth into the wet thj same old Thief has stolen our will. Tet how easily is fatigue forgotten in the uplift of the spirit that followj the overcoming of inertia; how well are we repaid by the consciousness of having done the thing that needed to be done. What momentary ease can compensate for the sense of well-being that accomplishment ac-complishment brings? Start today; do the hard things, the tilings you would like to put off; the unpleasant interview that must be faced, the general clean-up so badly needed. Anv child can do the easy things it takes a man's strength to do the difficult tasks and to DO THEM TODAY. Tackle the real work first; thereby will strength be gained to make easy ' tilings still easier and difficulties less arduous. Littlness and the habit of "putting off," if overcome today, may reappear tomorrow, but every battle with them which you win they miut lose. A man shows character by the resolution he makes ar:d keeps. F.asy to make, but hard to keep is the one resolve upon which all others depind I will START TODAY. (Copyright M O..T.C.) |