Tonight before writing this BLOG I was
looking for every excuse under the sun to go and watch TV and hangout. I was
mindlessly looking at the screen in the hope that something would distract me
so I could put it off till tomorrow night. Then I realized that I am going on a
photo shoot in the mountains tomorrow afternoon for sunset.
“Procrastination
is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.”
Christopher Parker
So if not then, when would I get to write
it?
By the time I had another free night next
Thursday would have come around.
But I committed in my schedule to writing
my BLOG each week on the same day. But I said to myself you have done enough
you had a late night last night so its ok to relax. Well its is ok to relax and
it will be once I finish writing it. So it got me thinking about time better
time management.
“A
dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and
hard work.” Colin Powell
My schedule is airtight so it can’t be
that. This is something the jobseekers that I present to each week ask me a lot
about. I tell them its not to do with time management its about procrastination.
We are all guilty of putting the hardest tasks to the bottom of our list.
Procrastination [proh-kras-tuh-ney-shuh
noun
1. the act or habit of
procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring
immediate attention:
So I thought how can I push through?
1. Make sure you have a big why. What is
reason that’s going to get you out of bed when the going gets tough or you
don’t “feel” like doing it?
2. Pareto rule – Do 20% of the tasks that
will give you 80% of the results.
3. Hold yourself accountable to the
commitments you give to yourself by just doing what you said you would.
4. Stick to the schedule you give yourself.
5. Celebrate the wins that come from doing
what you said you were going to do.
“Turning
pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage,
procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like
amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity
defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he
keeps on truckin', no matter what.” Steven
Pressfield
I understand that life gets in the way. If
it’s not one thing it’s another, it just keeps coming at us. It’s always going
to keep coming at us, that’s half the fun of being a human. We are going to get
off track, just don’t sabotage what’s important to you by letting distractions
take over.
Days turn into weeks, weeks into months and
months into years. Don’t let the time escape you.
Rise Up. Out of the everyday and into life.
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