Andrew Rondeau
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Get Rid Of Procrastination Once And For All
- By Andrew Rondeau
- Published 02/15/2008
Everyone suffers from procrastination at some stage in their lives.
The best way to reach your goals is to set yourself a target. Give yourself rewards for taking positive
action and penalise yourself for any procrastination. Make sure you set yourself time limits by
which to achieve each goal and if the goals are too big, break them down so
they are easier to handle. Remember,
reward yourself for positive action and penalise yourself for negative
procrastination.
It takes around a month to establish new habits, breaking down old ones and
needs a lot of discipline is needed too. A good way to tackle this is to record your
daily actions, keeping track of and reminding yourself of your new ways. Make sure you keep these records in clear
view, so you can’t forget them.
Make sure you keep a “To Do” List.
Ensure this list includes all types of jobs, both those that can be done quickly and
those that will take longer to achieve.
Once you have listed all of these you need to allocate importance to the
jobs, ie
Important/Urgent, Important/Not Urgent, Not Urgent or Important. By doing this you can then tackle the
Important and Urgent jobs first, which are usually amount to only 20% of the
jobs. You then need to learn to exclude
the 80% of activities that don’t help you reach your goals altogether.
Tackling the Important
and Urgent Jobs Last (at the last minute)
The best way to conquer this problem is to set aside a period of time each day
to work on these jobs. You will then
find you have the time not only to finish the jobs, but to do any amendments
necessary long before they become due.
Contemplating Decisions
(time always runs out)
You need to make sure you schedule time for making these decisions, so you
don’t rush into having to make them in the heat of the moment and therefore
make mistakes. If necessary, go
somewhere where you can relax by doing something like exercising or listening
to music.
You feel overwhelmed
Many people take advantage of you, getting you to work on their jobs and help
them with activities that don’t help you with your goals. You have to learn to say “no” to these
people, therefore being able to spend more time working for yourself and towards your own goals.
Failing to have a
Master Plan
A good idea to obtain all your goals, is to have a Master Plan of these goals
that you want to obtain for a year, giving priorities and dates by wish you
wish to complete these goals. Make sure
you have a Plan which is easy to change, as you will probably need to add and
maybe take off certain goals throughout the year.
Use a diary, organiser
or planner to keep goals coordinated
Make sure you use one of the above to
coordinate with your Master Plan, transferring every task to the correct
date. As you complete each job, cross it
out from your organiser and at the end of each day every job not completed
needs to be rescheduled. If you have to
reschedule a job twice you know you are procrastinating. Delete any job that is
not a big issue if you don’t complete it.
You have perfection
paralysis
Some people judge themselves too harshly, often according to their
accomplishments. If this is the case,
you need to realise that it is often worth doing something wrong until you get
it right. You need to learn to trust
your intuition (your first one is usually the correct one) and follow your
hunches. Try and make your quick
decisions in 20 seconds or less.
Therefore, we can learn from these
ideas above, how to form positive new habits and end the habit we have learnt
of procrastinating and therefore not hold ourselves back anymore.
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2 Responses to "Get Rid Of Procrastination Once And For All" 
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said this on 02 Mar 2008 1:43:11 PM EDT
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said this on 23 Mar 2008 11:00:51 AM EDT
OK, I'm sure that your ideas work, however, Are the results really in
your best interest? Procrastination, in my opinion, is a natural human sense that perhaps the course you are following may not necessarily the one to lead you to what is your best calling. I say, follow your passion. what leads you to procrastinate may be an intuitive signal to stop and take notice of what you are doing. When you feel passion about something, that then is what will bring you the greatest enjoyment and you wont be going down the wrong road and ending up asking yourself,"why me?" This is the way to happiness without having to deal with the nagging feeling that something is wrong. Nez Pa? Merci boquet ---Doug Rosbury |
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