{"id":3353,"date":"2022-01-05T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T09:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2022-01-05T09:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T09:24:58","slug":"putting-a-stop-to-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/05\/putting-a-stop-to-procrastination\/","title":{"rendered":"PUTTING A STOP TO PROCRASTINATION."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro 20:4 A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich<br \/>\nPro 18:9 The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing<\/p>\n<p>Procrastination can be defined as a regular habit of  postponing doing something. It is putting off  something intentionally either by delaying or avoiding to do it. Most often than not, people give excuses but not reasons for failing to do something whose time was due. <\/p>\n<p>A sluggard will not plow just because it is cold. Autumn , which is the time of ploughing is the season after summer and before winter. The  cold winter weather  begins to crawl in and  the sluggard gives an excuse for not ploughing. As a result , he will not sow and hence not harvest<\/p>\n<p>Putting off to a later date what can be done today can have a negative impact on other people as well. Sometimes we suffer great heartaches because of procrastinating. Some things  we put off are so crucial because they can change the direction of our lives forever. Always endeavor to do first things first; put a stop to procrastination! <\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nPro 24:30-34<br \/>\nActs 24:24-25<br \/>\nJam 4:14<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed Day\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro 20:4 A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich Pro 18:9 The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing Procrastination can be defined as a regular habit of postponing doing something. It is putting off something intentionally either by delaying or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}