Procrastination: The Thief of Time

Everyone procrastinates. Procrastination—the cat burglar of time management—steals into your life and whisks away one of the most valuable assets you possess.

Of course, not everyone regrets putting things off. Indeed, some 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 president for decades because the club never got around to holding new elections. And dues ... well, collecting them must be an interesting process.