Interest in Personal Growth

I've thought of an interesting (though not all that new) theory in regards to personal growth and life in general. I call it, quite imaginatively, the Principle of Interest. OOOOOOOH. AAAAAAAAH.

Everyone knows what interest is, but let's get a dictionary definition for clarity's sake: A charge for a loan, usually a percentage of the amount loaned. Wow, after looking for that definition, I realized how important context is in my message. "Interest" has about five or six definitions that might pop up in your mind first. The one I'm using here just happens to be the one that pops up in my head first.

Any-gay (to quote Sean), interest, for our purposes, is when more than the original amount of some "thing" becomes required over time. So, with interest for loan (something we're all familiar with thanks to "higher" (read more expensive) education), if you don't pay the money by time X, you have to pay amount Y more. Pretty simple.

So simple, in fact, that it can be applied to just about any life situation. The Principle of Interest (PI) is why procrastination never works: you'll have to do that "thing" you're putting off eventually, and probably at much higher a cost. The PI is why, in life, it's often better to just bite the bullet. That "right" moment will never come for you to do that one thing, so why not just do it now? If you're planning on doing it eventually, why not just do it now?

Didn't come out quite as eloquently as it was in my head, but that's nothing new.

In short, keep this in mind: if there's something that you have to do that won't benefit from you putting it off (and you'll know when "putting it off" is really a good strategy), consider the fact that you'll have to pay the price eventually anyway, and possibly with interest.

Tada!

Namaste.