The light bulb example is one that everyone identifies with. However, it fails to fully show the impact of the energy drain. To do this, let's take something of greater importance. Consider a time where you had to repay some money yet were putting off doing so. How often did your mind drift to this situation? Do you recall how you felt each time you thought about it? Certainly negative emotions arose. Sadly, we experience the energy drain every time our mind focused on that activity; energy that could have been spent productively. This was validated by our feeling when we did ultimately act. How did you feel? Have you experienced where it felt like the weight of the world was lifted off your shoulders? In situations like this, we feel like more energy is available to us. The energy drain of an unfinished activity is removed.

A wonderful way to reclaim the lost energy is to handle activities immediately. Procrastinating makes us so ineffective in all that we do. It is easier to suffer through an activity once as opposed to dreading it multiple times.

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