On the back of the jacket of Jack Canfields book, The Success Principles, this quotation caught our attention: The principles always work if you work the principles.

Perhaps this is too simplistic a statement or merely echoes another familiar marketing come-on, but it does translate into a variation of the work ethic. To us, this means doing instead of just thinking.

And doing is synonymous to action, execution, implementation, carrying out all these convey the active mode as opposed to the passive mode of just thinking.

The human brain knows no limits when it comes to thinking out ways and strategies in dealing with all kinds of problems, but if these strategies and plans are NOT acted upon, they really hold no meaning theyre like empty blueprints camouflaged in sparkling rhetoric. And rhetoric comes cheap these days.

Weve made up our minds to be less ambitious about this work, and called the 101 recommendations and suggestions contained in this book as simply TIPS. Tips on how NOT to procrastinate.

Procrastination pervades every aspect of our lives. And weve mastered it to perfection having learned a subtle form of it when we were babies.