25% is a Step Up

 Dale Carnegie said, 

"The average person puts in 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes its hat off to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%"

Frankly, I think he's being quite generous with his initial 25% estimate but maybe when he originally wrote it things were different as he was writing during the era of The Great Depression. The late Earl Nightingale's estimate was only 5%, but he was more contemporary. 

Regardless, whether it's 5% or 25% the point is that most of us are sleep walking through life, including me. Comfort is our hope. My friend Dawda Kahn once said, 

                      "comfort is where 

                       dreams go to die". 

This compels me to call into question my own motives and one might think that to put these self imposed guilts impressed upon myself is somewhat masochistic, however when I say something like 

"I'll do it tomorrow" 

when I can very easily do it now, especially when I have nothing to prevent me from promptly attending to a task, I can't help but think the decision to procrastinate puts me in that lower, under-achieving percentile.