Fred Smith writes as a professional procrastinator who has learned to get it done. By Fred Smith There is a professional society in which I could go far if I ever got around to joining.. It is a very large, recognized group. I have qualified but not affiliated… "one day I will." It is the professional procrastinators. I've hesitated to write about procrastination. I am plagued with it daily. I keep waiting to make that call or write that letter. "I know I should do a better job of planning, and I will… next year." Or, "I really do need to get moving on my personal development plan before it is too late, but on the other hand." Someday I'm going to figure out why perfectly capable individuals procrastinate. Maybe figuring it out will salve my conscience while I delay the simple things that I can and should do. I see several reasons for procrastination. I will touch briefly on them. 1) resentment of authority — those too sensitive to authority may think of discipline as tyranny rather than the road to freedom. Actually, self-discipline is the only safe escape from outside authority. 2) fear — often a very conscientious person procrastinates out of fear of not being able to perform as well as he wants to. Fear makes waiting a very real temptation. By waiting, we hope we can do better. Waiting to do better certainly can't be criticized we reason, so we wait. 3) desire to avoid judgment and evaluation - opening up an idea or project to evaluation is often disconcerting, so we avoid through delay. 4)potential versus reality — often in a creative person's mind is the fear that the idea or concept may not be as good in reality as in the abstract. Like a wild rose, the bud may be prettier than the full-blown flower. 5)privacy — often the procrastinator is a very private person. When dealing with an idea it is like a baby in the mother's womb. To bring it forth it to turn loose of it and see it handled, even changed, by others. It becomes public, no longer private. The fear of dilution supports procrastination.

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Do you have a plan or do you plan to have a plan? What gives you direction? By Fred Smith The young man stopped being a day laborer at age eighteen and by twenty-seven was a millionaire. After losing all of his money he is well into the second million. When I asked him how he felt about losing the first one, he dramatically took out his wallet, slapped it down on the coffee table between us, stuck his finger at it and said, "Fred, take it any time you want, no matter how much is in it. Just leave me two things and I'll still make a million… leave me my self-respect and my work plan." At this point I only had one question, "Do you happen to have a second copy of the work plan?" I would like to give you the four points that this young man wrote when he was a day laborer. 1. Clarify a specific goal. He handed me a piece of paper and said, "Fred, write down on that paper the dollars and cents you expect to make this year." I said, "I can't write down dollars and cents, but I'd like to make more." He said, "That's your trouble. You don't have a goal; you only have a direction." Immediately I thought of the young men who had come to me in business and said they wanted to get ahead, but had no specific goal in mind. They only had a direction. 2. Have a plan for reaching your goal. He asked me if I thought I could write out a program whereby my son could learn to be a good executive if he followed it religiously. Let me ask you… if your son came and said he wanted to follow in your footsteps, could you write him out a program which, if he honestly worked at it, would result in success? I'm sure you could. So, I answered, "Yes, I believe I could do that." Then he hit me between the eyes when he said, "Fred, are you doing what you would write down for your son to do?" I had to admit that I wasn't to which he replied, "Fred, it's easy to see your failure is not in knowing, but in not doing." 3 Maintain a burning desire to work your plan. Notice he didn't say anything about reaching the goal. He said, "Work your plan." He realized that most people can be enthusiastic about a goal, but when it comes to working the plan there that is where they fail. Everybody is enthusiastic about shooting a low score in golf, but not many of them are willing to work the plan of practice. It's the plan we have to maintain a burning desire for, not the goal.