Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-10-26
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Slave % the Habit AsoraIixes and An
nounces His Conclusions Can
Never Rise Above the Rank
Of Plodtier.

to-day what can put OF till to-mor
row.
The result is that / am always put.
ting on and never doing any moro
than is necessary for my current daily
hand to mouth support; and so, as the
saying is. I never have anything.
am not independent, but always de-
pendent upon somebody else for the
work that viii enable me to live, and
30 can never say my soul is my own.
] must do the work l an set to do by /.
some stronger man, whether like it
or not, and SO plod along, just get
ting through, while the man who col
lars things gets on
OF late years as have come to
realize its evil effects and the enor-
nous difficulty Of overcoming It have
come to think that the master vice OF
all is procrastination. And coming to
think thus has disturbed me q little,
because I have to give up an originally
preconcetved and LONG cherished no-
ton.
Il had long held that the most near
" fneradicable Of personal vices was
gambling, but now thought the most
didicut Of all vices to cure oneself Of
was that Of procrastination. Was +
wrong then? And could it be that 4
was wrong now?
This, say, disturbed me Nttle:.
but now on this point rest quite easy.
For have discovered, contradictory az
this, at first thought, might seem, I
have discovered that was right then,
and that am right now.
For now discover that the vice Of
gambling is but another phase, of, or
at least the 0utcrop of, that Of pro-
crastination. The great majority of
those given over to gambling hope to-
get something for nothing; they hope
to get money without effort. They put
of from day to day the hard, unflinch-
ing work that would give them sure.
thing, without chances, on the race,
of life, and make just enough to in
dulge their vice and their vain hopes
So gambling is really but form, or
outcome, Of the vice of procrastina,
ton. And by the same line of reason
ing suppose we might say the same
Of drunkenness, which is essentially
a procrastinating vice; we put things
of to-day, today we will drink: we
will work tomorrow.
And don't know but what We
should find that every i'll proceeds
from the vice Of representation; and
80 this, which might seem but form,
Of laziness, is really the master, vice;
and am one Of it's most closely bound,
victims. l don't drink, and don't
gamble; but I have got the fatal habit
of putting things of.
Inertia, dullness, lack Of power.
from want Of exercise, come from it.
the procrastinating man is always
at the same dead low level. He is al
ways going to do something, never do
ing it; just pulling through with tho
work he has to do, and gaining corre
spondingly small rewards He never
knows the Joy Of doing things nor
gathers in its profits, but habit bound.
he settles down in lifelong slavery.
And am one of those victims! Oc-
casionally do rouse up and do some
thing out Of my set routine, and in thes
accomplishment Of some rugged task.
that thus take up find great new
joy and pride; and I am going to keep.
this up; but next day sink to the old
level again, and stay there; it is SO
much easier to put things of than to
do things, and this. the trunk bad
habit of which all others are but
branches, is SO deep rooted. +
but ! am not without hope. I have
Topped of those branches of which 7
spoke. and I am prying, prying around
the roots of the trunk"