Procrastination and Laziness

To procrastinate is to put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness, to postpone or delay needlessly. Lazy means resistant to work or exertion, disposed to idleness.–The Oxford English Dictionary
  Synonyms for procrastinate: delay, lag, loiter, dawdle, and dally mean to move or act slowly so as to fall behind. Delay usually implies a putting off of something (such as a beginning or departure). Procrastinate implies blameworthy delay especially through laziness or apathy.Lag implies failure to maintain a speed set by others. Loiter and Dawdle imply delay while in progress, especially in walking, but dawdle more clearly suggests an aimless wasting of time. Dally suggests delay through trifling or vacillation when promptness is necessary.–Merriam-Webster Dictionary

“procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
–Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel

  Procrastination and laziness are soul taints rooted in indifference and lukewarmness. Excessive procrastination and laziness are sins rooted in selfish rebellion. The Medieval Church called this sloth. Today, we recognize procrastination and laziness as often being passive-aggressive behaviors.

Edna Lister on Procrastination and Laziness

Perseverance is the opposite of procrastination.–Edna Lister, The Science of Character Building: Positive and Negative Powers of Life, January 4, 1936

Law is not lenient about dawdling or dalliance between Light and dark.
  To engage in dalliance and dawdling is a waste of time.–Edna Lister, July 10, 1941

Dawdling is a state of putting off and dreaming about the future. Dawdling is detouring, trying to escape destiny, sidestepping how you follow the directions contained within the law. Dalliance is procrastination, to trifle with law.–Edna Lister, July 17, 1942

You are on your own time and vibration, to come or go, to be lukewarm or indifferent, or to dally and fail to apply the full law to your conduct of your life.–Edna Lister, November 25, 1942

You must be ready to act on a thousand lines of Light at once. This is rigorous training, and you can go on or stop, take it or leave it, but don’t dawdle!–Edna Lister, July 9, 1945

You cannot afford even one moment of lukewarmness, dawdling, indifference or lowered vibration of consciousness.–Edna Lister, July 3, 1947

Law isn’t lenient about dawdling and dalliance between Light and dark. Law permits no dalliance, no point of modification, no 99%. You are either 100%, or on the bottom.–Edna Lister, October 12, 1947

If it is a question of time, stop dawdling and wasting time.–Edna Lister, October 20, 1947

The law of dalliance: Delays are created by individual or collective willfulness in dallying with the law on giving up self. The law of dalliance applies to all details in all things and in all ways, conscious or subconscious. The subconscious, the seat of self’s treachery, is the dilly-dallier.–Edna Lister, May 13, 1948

When you dawdle, you lose your place in your class, and your rewards.–Edna Lister, June 25, 1951

Dawdling and consorting with the little self causes you to forget to go to God first.–Edna Lister, Be-Attitudes, July 24, 1951

Give up all dawdling and indifference. Replace your old ideas and patterns with new Christed age ideas.–Edna Lister, Atomic Energy and Creative Mind, September 30, 1952

You must lift all habits of indolence, indifference and procrastination.–Edna Lister, Four Phases of the Word, February 1, 1955

Dalliance does not turn back the clock of life. Time does not wait for anyone. Experience teaches that wasting time is foolish, for someday you will suffer a rude awakening.–Edna Lister, Eternal Youth, 1956

Procrastination, dawdling, putting-off, laziness, indifference, lukewarmness, opinions, prejudices, resentment, and rebellion are like moths that nibble tiny holes in your fabric of life, right in front, where the world can see them.–Edna Lister, Spiritual Inventory, January 22, 1956

Procrastination is an evasion of duty, repudiation of responsibility or acceptance of responsibility with a grudge. An evasion complex or an escape complex can upset the stomach. Your heart, lungs and stomach are on one pulse; you cannot evade responsibility without affecting the lungs and stomach.–Edna Lister, Metaphysical Correspondences, August 31, 1956

Now is the time to stop dawdling and live a positive life.–Edna Lister, August 10, 1957

I’ll try makes procrastination a false god.–Edna Lister, September 26, 1957

Refusal of responsibility, procrastination, evasion of duty or an escape complex, running from life, all are the causes of stomach trouble.–Edna Lister, March 17, 1958

God can send only as much Power as your squinched-up body can take, until you finally realize that you have played and dawdled your way through life to live in a wrinkled, old body.–Edna Lister, Realization, May 3, 1959

You can permit no more excuses or self-aggrandizement, delays, dawdling or procrastination when you become the great law of responsibility.–Edna Lister, September 8, 1960

Negative evidence of dawdling and playing with the Light is found in the tones of voice and the words spoken. The result is definite in excuses and self-explanations. Positive evidence is found in acceptance of law, This is mine to lift.–Edna Lister, June 28, 1964

When you ask for a miracle or answer, you must act as if you have it and stand on that truth with no hesitation or procrastination.–Edna Lister, March 4, 1965

People repudiate and procrastinate about new ideas. They put plans off without accepting or rejecting and say, I’m not quite ready to do it yet, which causes delay. Procrastination puts it in limbo and they forget.–Edna Lister, September 8, 1966

You cannot be too meticulous or rigid in self discipline with no blame, loitering or dawdling. Be alive and alert every moment, so that wherever you are, time and space shall be ready to meet and create perfection instantly.–Edna Lister, December 16, 1966

Do not procrastinate, for it can and will delay your miracle.–Edna Lister, God Neither Slumbers Nor Sleeps, December 14, 1969

Don’t dawdle or take on others’ debts by judgment and condemnation. If you see it, lift it.–Edna Lister, November 24, 1970

Old Testament Laws on Procrastination and Laziness

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.–Proverbs 18:9

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.–Proverbs 19:15

The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labor.–Proverbs 21:25

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.–Proverbs 26:16

The soul of the sluggard desires, and hath nothing.–Proverbs 13:4.

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