CHAPTER 9
In good time
Managing short-term impulses and long-term goals
He that has not a mastery over his inclinations, he that knows not how to resist the importunity of present pleasure or pain, for the sake of what reason tells him is fit to be done, wants the true principle of virtue and industry, and is in danger never to be good for anything. JOHN LOCKE
I MPULSIVENESS IS THE LAST CAUSE of procrastination we will address, despite its overwhelming desire to be first in all things. ‘Now, now, I want it now’ is its mantra. If we have an inner child, this is it, and it wants those sweets right away. Impulsiveness runs through every vice that ...
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