Well, I screwed up big time.I was absolutely sure that MyPoints emailed the gift certificate code to me. So I put off ordering the cards until this weekend, to ensure that I would have the full amount necessary for 2 $50 cards.Turns out, I was wrong. The gift cards are mailed, which means I'll be lucky to get them in 2 weeks. Meanwhile, Amazon informed me I had only 6 days left for standard shippi
Regarding procrastination, I think there are two types of people: those who procrastinate and those who declare they don't.Putting off things needlessly is a common thing most of us do. How many times did you postpone making an appointment for the dentist, even if you knew you're going to do it eventually? And how many times did you start working on different things, just to delay a burdensome tas
I was up kinda late last night... and then I awoke to some really tough decisions this morning.Like both of my favorite coffee mugs were clean.Which to choose? Which to choose?"Xena Warrior Princess" or "Get To Work: You're not being paid to believe in the power of your dreams." (Gotta love Despair Inc.)Tough call.In light of my burgeoned To Do list I went with the Work one, although Xena might ha
Have you ever heard the expression “procrastination is the thief of time”? What it is referring to is that the more you procrastinate on something the more time just slips away and the less likely it is that that ’something’ gets done. Is your something the idea of starting a home based business but somehow [...]
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I am so bad at it. I do procrastinate. What is odd is I procrastinate the things I want to do. I get the laundry done, cook supper, clean the house. Then I sit and relax. I am working on a drawing but haven't picked it up in probably 2 months. I had my last drawing sitting on a shelf for more than a year. Obviously I was sick for a year and that had much to do with it but still. I procrastinate. I
“Keep starting. Finishing will take care of itself.” - Neil Fiore
Procrastination is a problem for many of us. There is a lot of work on our plate, but something is keeping us from starting. Maybe it’s the fear of failure, of being judged by others, maybe it’s perfectionism and criticizing ourselves too much. The work [...]
We all procrastinate. It’s a problem we all face.
Actually we often spend more energy putting off a task than it takes to do it. In many ways we end up paying twice, once with all the energy avoiding what we know we must do and then, finally, once we actually do it.
It’s amazing that we can grow up, make it to adulthood, learn how to walk, read, write, and drive… but we can&rsqu
Tackling Procrastination Is A Time Management Tool That Works!
First, admit that you are indeed procrastinating on a task or project.
Get out your To Do List. Take a look at each item and ask yourself, “Am I procrastinating on this? Maybe just a little bit?” If so, put a “P” in front of it and go [...]
Well, I'll start off by saying I am the queen of procrastination! My reports are due in the AM and I haven't started them yet and I don't CARE to start them yet. HA! Of course I wanted to be in bed by 11 and if I don't soon get with it, it will be 1 or 2 before I crawl into bed. I'd rather goof off and not do it. I also have laundry in the washer that I can't forget to put in the dryer.This w
Jesus is elusive today. Or I won't sit still. It's difficult to tell sometimes. Do you have this problem? Sometimes the feet are moving because something else really needs to. That's often the case. Energy is built up around something as of yet unnamed. So, I am pacing hoping the dam will give way and I can get through whatever this is and get to the sermon. Jesus stands before me...nodding... the
It would be a better option to consider meditation for procrastination, especially for those people, who suffer from procrastination largely because their mind is replete with stress. It is estimated that meditation offers a best solution for stress, since it helps in decreasing the levels of tension from the mind. Hence, it is mostly used in the far eastern regions of the world with much success
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If you are allowing obstacles in your mind to get in the way of performing tasks and making progress then you are suffering from procrastination problems. In networking the biggest problem to creating a networking connection is an individual’s misconception that networking is hard selling themselves, their business, products, and services.
The bridge [
What is Procrastination?
Simply put procrastination is putting something off till later. It’s deciding not to do something at that given moment. Overtime people begin to procrastinate out of habit.
It’s interesting to note the origin of the word. It comes from the Latin words pro and cras, which can be translated as “Belong to Tomorrow“.
There are several [...]
I found a killer rate to St. Louis! And by killer, i mean "the best i can find these days with oil sky high and the economy going down in flames" kinda deal :)Finding the bargain was nice, but what really piqued my interest was the process in which i got it. I really have no idea what i did, or didn't do, to grab them at the lowest price!Here's a step by step breakdown of what i did:3 weeks ago: L
Image via WikipediaProcrastination. It's a skill I had mastered long ago, and I am proud to say to you today that I am, officially, a hardcore procrastinator. In fact you could call my lair the procrastination station, where all events arrive late just to happen even later. But why am I a procrastinator? And why does it take methylphenidate (Ritalin) just to motivate me? Well, in my opinion, R
Oh boy, I thought about putting this off for another few days. LOL. OK, so I had my fun with it. but really, a lot of people I know do just that. They put off till tomorrow what they should and could do today. It really baffles me too.
The ability to get things done and overcome procrastination is one of the most important skills to master if you wish to attain good mental health.
I know that I am
Do you put off your work for later, only to find your deadlines steadily creeping in? Then you, my friend, are one of the millions of people afflicted by the procrastination virus. Procrastination is the biggest reason for loss of productivity and late output. Though many would not admit it, they would benefit greatly if [...]ShareThis
Have you ever woke up in the morning, have your coffee, read your to do list and then found something else to do?
If this scenario sounds all too familiar …
What is causing your procrastination?
Let’s explore the common reasons people procrastinate and offer a few tips on overcoming procrastination.
Four Common Reasons People Procrastinate:
1. Fear of failure [...]
Luck is often described as when opportunity is met with preparation. Ok, this is great but I have a question to that cliche. When is it “procrastination” and when is it “preparation?” We prepare and prepare so that we early birds can get the worm but is there such a thing as too much preparation?
Today’s National Public Radio Talk of the Nation segment discusses how to be a productive procrastinator, asking procrastination expert Timothy Pychyl about “structured procrastination” and prioritizing your truly important tasks. [via]
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The first proof of the preacher himself committing the sin is my inability to do a Blog in recent weeks – shame on me for procrastinating!Now back to preaching… Procrastinating on getting to revenue equals sudden death. Recently an entrepreneur passionately indicated that they have potential customers that are willing to buy their product NOW, but they are holding back until they raise more ca
I am avoiding doing the dishes.I am avoiding doing the dishes. I am avoiding doing the dishes.I am avoiding doing the - oh, alright, fine! Stop looking at me like that. I'm GOING! Geez.But wait, before I go (ha! I have a lifetime of practice NOT doing the dishes, see?)... here is a picture of my cat Celes. I have SO many pictures of her in weird positions with her fee
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The key to overcoming procrastination is inner strength; inner strength will motivate you to completing a task no matter how big or small it is. However, many people lack a particular strength get sucked away from our goals and plans. But there are ways to overcome this.
Take It One Step At a Time
Some tasks, at first glance, may seem simply overwhelming. It’s important not to let yourself discouraged. Start off slow, in small baby steps, and you’ll soon find that things are actually beginning to shape up.
You Don’t Need To “Have To,” You Need To “Want To”
If you feel like you “have to” do something you’ll automatically feel a sense of negativity. The solution here is to shift your mindset from “have to” to “want to.” Be a firm believer that if you don’t want
Life is so stressful isn’t it. I didn’t get to bed till 3am last night because I was stressing about my first exam and how I was not doing enough work. When I stayed up late making a new layout for my livejournal!
I do love lj. Making layouts for it is so theraputic. If [...]
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I am a procrastinator. There’s no two ways about it. And I don’t mean that I can sometimes put off doing the dishes until the next morning. I mean that I can put anything off, anytime, for any reason.
What strikes me about the self-development movement is all [...]
Just another "I should have been writing my paper, but instead I baked" mistakes: dark chocolate cupcake with wattle seed icing.
Anyone got a spare two thousand words? The old dissertation is looking a bit skinny at the moment, and after six straight months working on one paper, I have to be honest--I have nothing left to say. I'm spent. Over it. Done. And yet it is still here, demanding words from me that I don't have like a nagging housewife. I am married to my freaking dissertation...and I think it is time to start seeing other papers.
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Just another "I should have been writing my paper, but instead I baked" mistakes: dark chocolate cupcake with wattle seed icing.
Anyone got a spare two thousand words? The old dissertation is looking a bit skinny at the moment, and after six straight months working on one paper, I have to be honest--I have nothing left to say. I'm spent. Over it. Done. And yet it is still here, demanding w
ProcrastinationStory, animation and direction by Johnny Kelly. Voice Over by Bryan Quinn.cool video explaining what is procrastination exactly? awesome!all clips via LOLFACTORY.BLOGSPOT.COM
I’ve been receiving short emails from the Procrastination Prevention Course, and the creators definitely know what are procrastinator problems. Plus they’re not long laborious exercises that you are unlikely to come back to.
One of the best ones that I implemented was choosing a task to ‘not do’. There are many things that crop up on [...]
“Procrastination is creating a fire escape plan“, this is by far my favorite line for the year 2008. “Procrastination is avoiding doing something. Procrastination is being not able to get started. “
This post is Inspired by this video by Johnny Kelly which won the” Jerwood Moving Image Awards“.
Would you agree that one way or another [...]
I ran out of time today (yesterday at this point), but I want to make sure to at least get the photo up. Tomorrow shouldn’t be too busy, although I think there is a new episode of Lost…
In order to stop procrastinating you need to learn what it is and why you are doing it. Procrastination is putting off what you can do today until tomorrow. Procrastination results in stress, poor health, and regrets that can last a lifetime.
Taking action leads to fulfillment, life experience and wisdom. The key is [...]
I love this t-shirt, probably because I'm an absolute procrastinator, and I get nothing done until the last minute. I also have to remember to use this sweet flow-chart every day at work just so I know I'm using my awesome procrastinating skills to their fullest.via tcritic
If there is one thing almost all freelance writers have in common, it is that their productivity varies from day to day. Some days are great, targets are achieved, projects are completed and there were no problems. Other days, writers find themselves procrastinating.
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Procrastination can keep you from doing your job well and hurt your career.Here are few things you can do to help you overcome procrastination.1) Give yourself a small reward after you complete a boring task. If you know a coffee and cookie break is waiting for you when you are finished doing something tedious, you will be inspired to get it done.2) You may put off a large project because it seems overwhelming. Break Large Projects into small chunks. Dividing a big job into a series of smaller tasks will make it seem less overwhelming.3) List the things you've been putting off from most to least important, or in order of when each item needs to be completed.Cross off items as you go.4) You may put off starting a task because you don't think you'll have enough time to finish it. For example
There are many reasons why people procrastinate when buying your products: they might not like the rate, they may not think the product you selected will work for them, and/or they might not like you or your company. Rather than tell us exactly what they are thinking these kind-hearted individuals let us down easy with [...]
Ever felt worthless and useless? That feeling that crawls up your spine, paralyzing your creativity as it goes along making you wonder what you are doing here on earth…Procrastination often makes us feel like we have no purpose. We feel as though we are here simply to pass the time until something better comes along. Get out of that rut and stop that particular line of thinking right now!I don’t care what your religion or beliefs, we deserve to be happy while we are here on earth. We deserve the very best that we can have and we can have whatever we put out minds to. The only thing that stands in our way is our inability to act persistently.Procrastination is something we do when we are afraid to do what we are really supposed to do. We make every little task ahead of us seem lik
"Procrastination is the thief of time"-Joseph Keller.I really don't know who Joseph Keller is and what he did (he must have been pretty important because when I searched procrastination quotes on Google this was the first quote that I found") and I really don't intend on finding out.At first I thought that it would be a great idea if I wrote an article on how to avoid procrastination. Usually before writing something I do a thorough research on that topic. That is where my wish of writing an article on procrastination vanished. This time I came upon an article which I think is a hundred times better than what I could have wrote. So here it is for you.Stop Procrastination- -Now! (From about.com)Never do today what you can put off for tomorrow. Better yet, never put off 'til tomorrow what yo
How to overcome procrastination - by Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain Radio, the most popular philosophy podcast on the web - www.freedomainradio.com
Do you suffer from what seems like an incurable mental disease called procrastination? Are there things you know you should do but can’t even get motivated to start them? Perhaps you are like me and can start a project gun-hoe and fired-up with enthusiasm but lose momentum and interest half-way through. How would you like [...]
When Thing 2 stopped using his high chair, over a year ago, we were happy to get it out of the kitchen. They were always climbing on, pushing, or bumping into it, and it freed up some much needed space. I should have given it a good cleaning before moving to the basement storage room. But, I figured I could just clean it the next time we needed it.
That next time was this weekend, when Thing 3 had his first attempt at solid food. That is, if you can consider rice cereal solid food.
Before we could get those adorable pictures above, I had to deal with what happens when you leave food on a high chair for a year. All that nasty-baby-stuff, which gets into every nook and cranny of the chair, turns into even-nastier-impossible-to-get-off stuff.
The good thing about this kind of job I have is that I work for myself and I have all the time to do all the work and promotion of my products. It’s good because (1) I really don’t like being bossed around. (I think I am born to be the leader, not the follower. Heh, but I can follow, of course, if I want to and have to.) (2) I’m a total home buddy that I don’t like leaving the house that much. (3) I can’t leave my computer for some reasons. (4) I feel like working in an office, in whatever workplace, or even just as a home-based worker, is like being imprisoned or something.
With all these reasons, some of you may think that I don’t like pressure, responsibility, compromising etc. Well, that’s sort of true. For me, that’s so troublesome that I just want to leave things behind and just doodle on the fun things I do. Yeah, you can call me a quitter, coward and other names if you want. This is me and I know what I’m doing. (more…)
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On nights like this when I could write about the rats nest of electrical wires my father discovered in our attic that is going to prevent us from having the house insulated this winter, Adam’s fire hose of vomit in my face last night and his repeat performance this evening on the floor of the toy room or even his strange fascination with brooms, mops and rakes I somehow find myself at a complete loss for words. When this happens I employ an exercise from my teaching days I used with students to help them get through writer’s block. The exercise is to simply write without stopping. Not to think about what you’re writing, whether it makes sense, whether it’s good or whether it’s absolute shit but just to keep writing. It’s been a long time since I’ve used this device (well except for the absolute shit part), but tonight as the witching hour approaches and the cursor blinks in the upper left hand corner of a blank page I needed to call in a favor. I suppose I could post more
Procrastination - there's a whole psychology to this. I have some things that I had been procrastinating and it's not good. In fact, it's bad that I am procrastinating on those. OK, I really need to log off and deal with it. I can't blog until I deal it one of them. Wish me luck! Better yet, pray for me.As Terminator would say. "I' Be Back!"
My personal promise to stop procrastinating and to just get stuff done is paying off. Ive been successful in personal tasks but my day job is the one area I am hopeless in. See why its important to like what you do for a living?
Ive been thinking about doing some radical changes in my life lately and starting in the New Year I will make steps to do more than just complain about problems and just start solving them. I am in the process of making a huge to do list of problems in my life to solve and goals to achieve in the coming year but first I need to stop putting things off or allow myself to be negatively influenced by persons or uncontrollable events in my life.
The negative influences are easy to get rid of but the procrastination is a bull Ill have to take on by the horns. Like most geeks I turned to Google for a cure and it delivered a great page with tips for overcoming procrastination; Ive printed it, Im reading and I shall be victorious!
Do you procrastin
I’m supposed to do a resume for my mom. She asked me to do it WEEKS ago, but I’ve been putting it off. Actually? I’m sort of sticking my chin out and being a baby about it, because she said, “If you can do my resume for me, I’ll watch the kids while you work on it.” That has NOT HAPPENED. Sure, I have plenty of time to do it at night when the kids are in bed, but I’m annoyed that she said she’d do this and she didn’t! Yeah, lame of me to obsess over something so minor as helping out my MOM with something.
Also? I’ve been promising Paul for a week that I would do some ironing. He’s missing his favorite shirt, and it’s just lying in the basket in the laundry room, mocking me. Along with towels that haven’t made it into the linen closet, sippy cups that need to see the inside of the dishwasher, and diapers that need to be stacked up on shelves. I need to start my enchiladas, throw all the shoes in the bin by th
I put off getting my car’s oil changed and tires rotated way too long this go around. I try to get the oil changed and tires rotated every 6,000 miles. I was well over 9,000 this time. To make matters worse, my registration and inspection was more than 2 months overdue. A symptom of too much going on, or I guess to be more accurate poor planning on my part.
Regardless, I finally brought it to the dealership on Friday. Dealership, you ask? I agree, not typically the least expensive option, but let me explain. I purchased my car used from a dealership. This is not something I would normally recommend, but I know the owner and have a really good relationship with him, his brother (the sales manager) and his staff. I trust them, which is really important consideration when buying a car. Anyway, as part of the purchase I received free oil changes and tire rotations for the lifetime of the car. As a result, going to the dealership for both oil changes and or tire rotations
miWisdom today… Learning and mastering a single process, task or skill can take time and a lot of concentrated effort. This is why it is so easy for us to doubt our own abilities when we have very little experience in a specific area. Some “things” naturally take a little more time to master than others, and this is where the problems lie.
Many of us see these “things” that we need to learn as big challenges that seem rather overwhelming and daunting. Yet, little do we realise that the only difference between a person who has mastered a skill or understood a process comes down to 2 common and critical factors:
Knowledge and
Experience
We acquire knowledge by seeking out information that we want to understand and potentially put into practice. And we acquire experience by applying that information in a practical and measurable way.
In essence, what stops people from moving forward in life simply comes down to either a lack of knowledge or experience, or
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By Dr. Raymond Jewell One of my many frustrations deals with people who say they want to achieve financial success but don’t seem to have the time to work it into their schedule. It can’t be both ways!I have talked to many people who tell me that they are sick and tired of not getting ahead. They tell me that the financial world is against them and that the financial institutions do not operate in their best interest. They tell me that they want to achieve financial freedom and have their wealth work for them and not them working for it. It seems like these people are telling me what they think I want to hear, and not what they truly want for themselves.If we accept them into our Personal Economic Coach process, after they profess to want to achieve financial success, it seems that these people are very attentive for the first few meetings. [Not everyone falls into this category.] They approach the process with great gusto but over time cannot continue to stay focused on the traini
Anyone with mostly human DNA and a beating heart has experienced the joys and woes of procrastination. Why do we clean the entire bathroom ceiling to toilet when a paper is due? When you are dreading prep for a job interview? Suddenly, you have an emergent 5 course meal to plan. We've all been there. So, I will include the psychology lurking behind this, and a few steps to push on through. 1. Fear of failure/perfectionism: Especially if you have a reputation of success, the bar is set high. Your mother, your buddies, the tollbooth lady, whoever you know or have bored with your life story, know you can achieve amazing things. Disappointing these people is scary, so often instead of completing a task, you have an unfinished novel, a partially baked cake, or a half painted Monet look-a-like in your den aka scary junk room. By avoiding completion, you effectively don't disappoint. Solution: Your imagination or nightly dream world may run wild with potential conversations or scenarios wi
"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy." Denis Waitley"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." Denis Waitley"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."ConfuciusThe bottom of the market happened today. Tomorrow, prices will begin to increase and inventory will disappear. Really? No.But the market will change and improve. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in 3 months or 12 months. Who knows? It is because none of us really know, the actions, systems, and knowledge we gain today will position us to be ready when the market turns. This I mean.>>A geographic farm
Procrastination – putting off till tomorrow things that we should
do today. At some point in our lives, we are either guilty of
procrastination or know of friends or colleagues who are. Is
procrastination a bad thing? Would you call procrastinators lazy?
Are they poor decision makers? Would you marry or stay married
to a procrastinator? As you will read, we do not view
procrastination as
When I’m alone and all by myself, I’m thinking of things that I should do and those things that I MUST do… thinking that certain things should be done. But when I’m about to do it, there’s something inside me that wasn’t able to make things up. So I always end up to thinking and thinking and thinking ‘til it’s over and I didn’t do the task I should do. This thing is what we all know as the procrastination. It’s a traitor! A virus in oneself, no one can cure it except you. I’m so tired with this thing that kept things undone. And when it’s the end of the line, you can’t do anything more because you let the time passed by without doing anything. I’m doing this article because I’d like to do the necessary. I want to share my experience to other people who are also experiencing this procrastination thing. I’m the most chronic procrastinator I know. I’m always thinking of things but I don’t act to finish it. I’m stagnant to thinking and I don’t
MeeTimer - check out this firefox extension to help you keep track of your slack-surfing-time. A complete review on LifeHacker. I think I’ll find I need more time slack-surfing!!
If I had a penny for every time I've heard someone say, "But I don't have the time!" I'd be a multi-millionaire! There are a lot of strategies for getting things done, and tons of strategies to 'just do it' when it comes to your health and fitness, but the big issue is many people just don't 'do it'. They procrastinate. Some people can't even use the excuse that they don't have time! Here are some strategies to help you combat the procrastination that has prevented you from achieving your fitness goals. 1. Self-talk. If you have been struggling with how to change your fitness habits and just can't get past the 'doing it' stage, first you have to look at what you are telling yourself. Are you saying you just can't do it? Are you saying that no matter what you have tried, nothing works or nothing sticks? The first step is to change your opinion of what you are capable of! Start telling yourself that you're already there! Write down on paper that you are already doing the
After a full week of classes, I couldn’t hack the fifth day; and dedicated it to finishing my ‘doodle’ titled Why Hello (inspired by Jen’s squiggles which I’ve lost the link to). Although most of you are probably thinking ‘he has that much time on his hands’ - the sad thing is..: I really don’t.
I have just over 20 school days left. Ever. Sure, there are many exams and a 2-3 week holiday in between, but only 20 days of actual classes left and I cannot wait until it’s done. I just saw Notes on a Scandal too; and I’ve decided I’m going to have sex with Cate Blanchett.
We are all procrastinators. Either consciously or subconsciously we delay, stall and put off various tasks that will make a positive difference in our lives. Procrastinating can be a learned trait from our parents or derived at birth. Habits are very hard to change without a conscious, deliberate action taken on our part.
Traditionally, procrastination has been associated with perfectionism, a
According to Dictionary.com, the word goal was coined in 1275. (I actually thought it would have been penned earlier than that. You, too?) In contrast, the word procrastination didn't get formalized until the mid-to-late 1500's.So it sure must've been a particularly productive 300 intervening years, don't you think?!Or maybe, just maybe, they had the word procrastination all ready to go, but just kept putting it off, day after day, until someone finally put their foot down and made it a priority. (The word priority was formally recognized sometime between 1350-1400, placing it after the goal was established - and after it was probably due - but before anyone really got around to working it!)So let's review:Goals were established in the late 1200's.Some 75 years later they were made into priorities. About 150 years later people started to admit that, yes, maybe there was a bit of procrastination going on. And 450 years after that, the boss got totally fed up and invented the word,
Hey Folks,
Today, I’ll take a break from writing and share with you some great article I found on some great sites dealing with positivity too.
I chose them as they are in line with my last 2 post about overcoming procrastination and they cover situations and tips that I did not cover and should be beneficial to anyone who wished to get rid of procrastination.
So here they are:
10 Tips for Escaping Your Comfort Zone and Having Adventures
- by Scott Young
How to Actually Execute Your To-Do List: or, Why Writing It Down Doesn’t Actually Get It Done
- by Leo Babauta
How To Motivate Yourself To Make Decisions Quickly
- by Keith A. Shaw
Did you enjoy them? I did when I read them. If you come across any good articles about overcoming procrastination, do share it with us by leaving a link in our comment page.
Love,
James
Hey Folks,
In my last post, I share that at one point of my life or another, procrastination took different forms and challenged my will to be successful. Sometimes it wins, sometimes I do. Today, I win most of the encounters but I still need to consistently remind myself of this dangerous monster in order to defeat it. So here’s my secret weapons:
1) Failure is the mother of all success - I do it “Nike’s way“, yes, that’s right - “JUST DO IT“. If I have to do it sooner or later and I have no idea how to do it better, I will just do it now and be prepared to learn from it. So that the next time I have to do the same thing, I’ll be able to do better.
2) Make it so painful you just have to do something about it - I have known friends who takes 50% pay cut from his job to motivate themselves to work harder with their side business. The pain that followed was too great and too real due to the lost of income which made him work his side busin
Two of the world's leading experts on procrastination, Joseph Ferrari, Ph.D and Timothy Pychyl, Ph.D share their insights about the type of self-sabotage known as procrastination.According to these professors, there are three types of procrastinators:
The thrill-seekers, who get a rush from doing everything last minute.
The avoiders, who fear either success or failure, and would rather be judged for their lack of effort rather than lack of ability.
Those who simply can't make a decision because they fear taking responsibility for the outcome.
But how are these procrastinators created? Researchers agree that procrastinators are not born that way. There's no faulty gene to blame. One theory is that procrastinators learn it--indirectly--through the family setting, as a response to an overly authoritarian parenting style. Although procrastinators will say it's "no big deal," the cost of putting things off trickles all the way down to your health. Procrastinating college students, for
Somewhere between your idea of accomplishing something, and seeing it accomplished, there may be something lacking--the act of actually doing it. Procrastination happens to most people, some of the time. To some people it happens most of the time... This quick and inspiring article points out how procrastination can have the short-term benefit of making you feel in control and at peace. Unfortunately this is serenity on borrowed time, and is usually followed by intense panic.He lists 11 common causes of procrastination, followed by tips to nip the slacker-habit in the bud. Complicated Task Anxiety, for example, can be cured by breaking a large, complex project into smaller tasks that can easily be accomplished one-at-a-time. Then, all you need to do is get going on one of those small "starter" tasks.Automate simple, but boring and repetitive tasks whenever you can, to diminish burn-out from boredom. And minimize distractions. See my video on How to Radically Reduce&
11 Causes and Cures for Procrastination [via] johnplaceonline.com, is the best little list that I have ever seen on the net. Its short, simple and to the point. John lists one cause and one simple cure for each of 11 bullet points, plus there’s more in the rest of the post and comments!! Of course the cures aren’t easy to do, but at least there isn’t some long winded explanation of how to go about a solution. I love it!!
You can follow the jump to see the list or just click the link to see the whole post. There’s more to this article than just the list you know.
Best of luck.
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Procrastination is the thief of time. Everybody procrastinates to some degree. A chronic procrastinator does it all the time and can’t seem to control it.
Tomorrow may be a kind of friend to troubled persons and those in adverse circumstances. Tomorrow can become a kind of energy, perhaps disguised as a friend, to those who [...]
Procrastination has been my #3 enemy for a long time (#1 is debt, and #2 is cockroach). It has given me financial scares a few times in the past (click here to read about how I almost missed a scholarship deadline, and how the cost of my brake repairs inflated to insanity) and caused innumerable delays in other trivial things. I have whined and moaned about it on this blog earlier, and have been taking positive steps towards reducing the negative effects of procrastination in everyday life.
Historically, the word “procrastination” has been consistently given a negative twist. For example, here is how Wikipedia defines the term:
Procrastination is the deferment or avoidance of an action or task to a later time. For the person procrastinating this may result in stress, a sense of guilt, the loss of productivity, the creation of crisis, and the chagrin of others for not fulfilling one’s responsibilities or commitments.
That sounds pretty ominous, doesn’t it?
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Procrastination is an interesting thing. Many people procrastinate. I joke, too, and say “Never do today what you can do tomorrow.”
Procrastination is interesting because it is self-reinforcing. I get this from the dog world, where I get many things from. Reinforcement is a powerful thing. And emotionally it can really get us to do things.
When a person procrastinates, or puts something off until later, there can be a real feeling of relief. That feeling is very pleasant and very reinforcing. So procrastination really reinforces itself. The more we put things off, the more relieved we feel, and the more we will put things off.
It relieves the anxiety and stress. Momentarily, anyway. It may cause guilt, or anxiety, later on as we get closer to a deadline, or having to complete whatever we are avoiding. But since that is later.. that’s in the future, it is not as intense.
Just an interesting tidbit of knowledge.
By using a specific thought process you can get rid of the procrastination devil. First write down the things you have been procrastinating from doing. Place them into daily, weekly, monthly, and once in a lifetime groups. Now under each item write down the reasons why you have to do them immediately or start doing them immediately. If they fall under continuous process like physical exercise, studying, writing, gardenning etc, create the thought process everyday, keep this journal handy and go through it everyday. Many actions become habits and you will not need to motivate yourself with urgency.Apart from things and situations which are naturally urgent like health, food, sleep, clothes and some work related chores, your thought process makes the other things urgent, so create a similar urgency in very important but not so urgent work. This can be done easily. Just write down and start thinking why it is urgent. Your thought process itself will create the urgency.Once the thou
aqua bear cd mem As your aware its exam time at the moment and what your probably more aware of is the lack of revision being done by me. Its not that I don’t want to revise. I can think of nothing less exciting than sitting down on a chair that leaves me grimmacing with pain to do several hours of maths revision having not looked at a maths book since year 11, two years ago. Theres also the sense of glee and pleasure I get from having to learn an entire programming language again because my memories so terrible I think its last Tuesday.
Don’t even get me started on the other exam topic!
You can probably guess where this has been leading to!? Yes, Procrastination and my god am I good at it!
It started off at the beginning of last week with a trip to collectormania, mentioned in my previous post. Then I decided to count my penny collection I’ve been collecting for two years. My previous collection went towards sending a cow.
I have £12.33 of grubby smelly pennies.
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Last week I wrote about using the T-O-P-3 approach to priority management. If you haven't tried it yet, I strongly suggest you do. Why do we get so distracted from our priorities, though? (Embarrassing Disclosure: I'm writing this blog now instead of working on one of my so-called priorities!)I think the answer is typically one of three:Procrastination Trap #1 - Distractions - Best intentions aside, we keep getting caught up in other things. So, we basically forget it ... and time passes.Procrastination Trap #2 - Nonconcurrence - We reject the very notion that this particular task really is a priority - or believe that working it will result in something bad instead. So, we basically dispute it ... and time passes.Procrastination Trap #3 - Avoidance - We just don't like to do what we don't want to do, or are too uncomfortable with doing to do it. So, we basically ignore it, hoping it goes away ... and time passes.I suppose we could call these traps Procrastination DNA (Distractions
“Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.”Thomas Huxley (1825 – 95) British biologist
PROCRASTINATION is a probably a crap title for a blog posting if you want lots of visitors to your site. I found this out while surfing other people's blogs. www.allthingswomanly.blogspot.com/ had tried an experiment by calling her postings things like "pussies" and "tits" and had had many more visitors than usual. She did, to be fair, include a picture of cats and two beautiful blue tits, which I'm sure was a powerful comfort to watery-eyed men using Google search to try to find a pneumatic lass with whom to share their oh so lonely nights. But I'm going to leave "procrastination" as my title because, well, wittering on about blue tits stops me from having to write about what I really intended to write about which was…. what was it? ….. procrastination.I am an arch procrastinator. Faced with a kitchen which will require an industrial-strength vacuum and a couple gallons of bleach to clear up the detritus of last night's supper, I turn on my computer and start looking at other
PROCRASTINATION is a probably a crap title for a blog posting if you want lots of visitors to your site. I found this out while surfing other people's blogs. www.allthingswomanly.blogspot.com/ had tried an experiment by calling her postings things like "pussies" and "tits" and had had many more visitors than usual. She did, to be fair, include a picture of cats and two beautiful blue tits, which I'm sure was a powerful comfort to watery-eyed men using Google search to try to find a pneumatic lass with whom to share their oh so lonely nights. But I'm going to leave "procrastination" as my title because, well, wittering on about blue tits stops me from having to write about what I really intended to write about which was…. what was it? ….. procrastination.I am an arch procrastinator. Faced with a kitchen which will require an industrial-strength vacuum and a couple gallons of bleach to clear up the detritus of last night's supper, I turn on my computer and start looking at other
I bet you’ve never heard of procrastinating by running… well, in an effort to put off the hard part of studying for my constitutional law final (the part where I catch up on some reading that I never did), I decided to go for a run. The weather was extremely nice (for Florida). It was 72 degrees and partially cloudy. Normally at this time of the year it would already be in the mid-80s… so I guess this bizarre weather is helping me out in some ways, although having to wear a jacket in the evenings in late April seems unsettling. I managed to beat my personal best, not that I have much of a benchmark to exceed, but I did feel a bit run down at the end, and I think it’s because I’m still not getting enough calories during the day. I should probably look into some kind of meal bars or some kind of ucky carb beverages. If anyone has any suggestions for stuff that doesn’t taste nasty, I’m all ears. I also need to be sure and up my water intake, be
I’m preaching on Sunday and I’m on a deadline because we are heading back to Keswick on Saturday so I need to be all done by tomorrow. The thing is I’m having a bout of procrastination. So what’s new I hear you cry!
The thing is I’m starting to wonder if that’s what is going on in this week’s story in John 21: 1-19. The disciples, even though they have seen Jesus twice since the resurrection, have scarpered back to Galilee and are back fishing! Jesus appears on the shore and the seven disciples there sit and eat bread and fish with Him.
Then Jesus gives Peter a bit of a spiritual kicking! ‘Do you love me more than this lot?’ he asks Peter three times, mirroring Peter’s three denials of Jesus. By the third time Peter is hurt. Why do you keep asking? You know I do! But following each answer Peter gives Jesus gives him an instruction. Feed my lambs. Tend my sheep. Feed my sheep. It seems that Peter i
Please accept my apologies if you tried to access this site over the last 12 hours and were greeted with an unfriendly “bad_httpd_conf” error.
I have ranted about Dreamhost troubles earlier. And after all that, I still haven’t switched my service provider. I delayed switching after Dreamhost offered to put me on a different server and things looked better. I should have known better…
Anyways, this is how procrastination bites.
Note to self: LEAVE-DREAMHOST-NOW.
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Like the responsible parent I am, I’ve decided to wait until the last few hours before the government employee who is single-handily responsible for deciding on whether my husband and I are fit parents arrives at my house with her white gloves to start inspecting the premises, to actually get off my keister and start to clean.
I thrive under pressure. I have to sweep, mop, shove clothes under the bed, toys into closets and create a 12 page photo album (yep, pics of my family) all before the nice, underpaid-no-sense-of-humor-I’m-so-screwed lady arrives on my doorstep.
(I’m hoping the neighbor’s Rottweiler decides to stay home instead of perching his scary ass on my deck like my personal gargoyle because I forgot to warn her of his predilection for guarding my door instead of his owners abode.)
But before I start the mad scramble to get everything in order, like any good blogger, I had to check my email. And imagine my surprise when I discovered that I was nominat
“A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.”John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006) U.S. economist and diplomat
I took a test Wednesday. I failed horribly. With a 30.I take a test today at 3. Which I will fail horribly with below a 30.It's just adding up to be one of those days.I took the day off to study at school, with no interruptions, peace and quiet and somehow I'm on here blogging.Can we say addicted?In preparation of this test at 3; Money, Banking and Financial Markets, I'm taking the online quizzes for each of the chapters (11 in total, and we only have 2 tests in total for this class) and currently, I suck balls.Maybe if I can suck someone's balls in the testing center, I'll be able to pass...Naw, I couldn't do it. But the thought was nice, well not really, but ya know.Ok, so procrastinating the inevitable doom I'm sure to succumb to in just a mere 2 ½ hours isn't making me feel any better.So, I'm off to study some more and you, my fine people, shall say a little prayer for me.Or better yet - sell your soul to the devil, show me proof and I'll dress up as a leprachaun, paint
Worry is one of the few things in life we don't seem able to escape from.It can turn a grown man into a shivering wreck.Heck, I know. I've been there.But what good does worrying really do? Does it help? Do nights without sleep - and those panicky flutterings of the heart - really assist you in any way?Of course not.But how do you control them?Today, I'd like to share a little technique I often use if I find myself in a situation where I'm worrying about something.Here's what I do: I acknowledge the worry and give myself permission to think about it incessantly. Starting tomorrow.I don't let it affect me today. It serves no purpose. But I'll let it affect me tomorrow.And then when tomorrow comes, I give myself permission to worry about it the next day instead. Until it reaches the moment in time when the "worry" materializes... and we either handle it, or find out it wasn't as bad as we imagined.So... If you have something on your mind, or can't control the panic for whatever r
Friday is D-Day for me. STR - PosterChem - Paper / Experiment / PresentationInkwell - Essay in English & Essay in FilipinoAnd more I can't recall~+~+~+~Wednesday, the day I ask [rejection or acceptance] or not ask [which leads to forgetting about this issue ever occurring]. :) Several of my friends tell me to. A couple or so don't.~+~+~+~If faith is what we need to heal the world,then I know, it will take a miracle to heal me.~+~+~+~If I could just ask later...Anyway, I still have the STR and the Chem to work on.(^O_O^)「おわり」~+~
Procrastination, defined simply, is when an individual delays completing their tasks intentionally. Overtime, this turns into a habit as it is always easier to take the path with on resistance. It is very easy to fall into the trap of procrastinating, and the root causes of people doing so varies from individual to individual.
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