Procrastination robs you of opportunity. It is a significant fact that no great leader is known for procrastinating. Your lucky ambition drives you to action, and never allows you to fail or back down, once you have made the decision to move forward. Overcoming procrastination takes work, but it will be worth it! Second by second, as the clock ticks down the distance, time is racing with you.
Delay means defeat, because no man can make up a second of lost time. Time is a working teacher that heals the wounds of failure and disappointment and corrects all mistakes and converts all mistakes into capital, but only favors those who break procrastination and stay in action when decisions are made.
If you hesitate, you will be removed from the board. If you keep moving, you can win! The only real capital is time, but it is capital only when it is used. You may be surprised if you keep an accurate count of how much time you lose in a single day! Ask any knowledgeable salesperson and they’ll tell you that indecision is most people’s biggest weakness. Every salesperson is familiar with that timeworn alibi, “I’ll think about it,” which is the last line of defense for those who don’t have the courage to say either yes or no. The great leaders of the world were men and women of quick decision.
General Grant had little to recommend him as a capable general except the quality of firm decision, but this was enough to make up for all his weaknesses. The whole story of his military success can be gleaned from his response to his critics when he said, “We will fight this way even if it takes all summer.”
When Napoleon came to the decision to move his armies in a certain direction, he did not allow anything to make him change that decision. If his line of march brought his soldiers into a ditch, dug by his opponents to stop him, he would give the order to charge the ditch until it was filled with dead men and enough horses to save it.
The suspense of indecision leads millions of people to failure. A condemned man once said that the thought of his forthcoming execution was not so frightening, once he had made the decision in his own mind to accept the inevitable. Lack of decision is the main stumbling block of all revival meeting workers. His whole job is to get men and women to make a decision in their own minds to accept a given religious principle.
Millions of people have imaginations and build plans that would easily bring them fortune and fame, but then again those plans never make it to the decision stage. Put yourself in the 3% of all men, overcoming the evil of procrastination!