Somewhere between feeling smug and confident is the pleasure of accomplishment. The task related to this joy can be anything. It seems there is a direct correlation between the length of the procrastination and the degree of accomplishment satisfaction.

A high

Every task does not have the same accomplishment generating high. If we knew exactly which acts would produce emotional jackpot, I think we would arrange each day differently.

Kids spend 1,260 hours each year at school. From kindergarten till high school graduation that is 71% of the non-asleep day spent with teachers. The feeling of accomplishment becomes an education issue when a child goes home empty in that department.

Emmanuel and Susan

Emmanuel loved going to Ms. Barnes’ class each day. She smiled at him, talked to him about things important—-pets, brothers, soccer, and how well he did class. When he threw his backpack down at the back door of his home he almost yelled out a list of things he learned and did at at school. Susan walked through the same doors as her brother. She rarely shouted to her mom about anything. She checked the disposition of her cat, turned on the television, and tried to forget about her day at school.

“What do you think will be the rest of the story for these two kids from the same family?” asked the college instructor.

“Emmanuel will go to college and be a productive adult. Susan will become pregnant and end up on welfare. All because of teachers!” replied a college education major in the back of the lecture hall.

Education vaccination

“Guess again,” replied the instructor. “Emmanuel will finish college and climb out of poverty. But Susan will become productive also….They have an education vaccination. It’s called family support and love.”

“But educators can’t fix that!” yelled the student from the back of the lecture hall.

“You are right. We can’t give the Susans of the world the family support and love they needs. But we can keep working on a vaccination,” replied the instructor.