Prioritizing
Have you heard the joke, "Are you working hard, or hardly working?" How about if we put it this way, "Are you working hard or working hard to appear hardworking?"
Just because you are busy doesn't mean you are productive.
You have to decide what to do that will bring you closer to your 'goal' and cut out all the nonsense in between.
I can testify that most of the greatest procrastinators in the world are some of the busiest, most hardworking people that I know. They are always busy, busy, busy! Yet somehow, after a while you find that they are so busy yet why do they have so little time doing the things that matter the most?
Prioritizing is very important.
You have to learn to put first things first or to remember that the main thing is to keep the main thing, the MAIN THING!
Read it again.
I have compiled some of the ways to fight procrastination in a new e-book - "Stop Procrastination Now!".
Learn the secret here at:
http://onlinesalessuccess.org/spn.html
The information here will blow your mind.
Next, we will move on to an even more exciting topic called:
"Getting into the action habit"
See you next time!
Peter Duxbury
Stop Procrastination Now!
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Saturday, 9 June 2007
Overcoming Procrastination Course- Part 2
Dealing with Procrastination: What we are up against
How do you deal with procrastination? First, you must be very clear that procrastination is a symptom of many flawed characteristic traits.
There is no action in the world that is taken without any form of motivation behind it.
However, most motivation can be summarized into two forms:
Gain motivation AND prevention motivation (in other words, prevention of pain)
It is a crazy mind game, but somehow you will find that most people are able to motivate themselves in ways that allow them to defy the odds and accomplish great things. They have two hands, two legs, two eyes and one mouth. What makes them (normally) different from the rest of us?
Motivation. No one procrastinates something in and of itself. There is a reason behind everything.
There are many forms of motivation that I can share about now. One is by doing something that you enjoy. Most people who are struggling with starting a business, for example, find that the more their business is focused on their favorite hobby, the more they will work hard at it.
Working at something you like doesn't feel like work!
People drag themselves out of bed every morning to go to work, but wake up extra early to head on to the golf course! Why? Motivation.
Find what motivates you the most and try and apply it to your tasks.
Never ever neglect this mindset.
Next, I will talk about:
"Prioritizing"
To Your Online Success,
Peter Duxbury
OnlineSalesSuccess.org
How do you deal with procrastination? First, you must be very clear that procrastination is a symptom of many flawed characteristic traits.
There is no action in the world that is taken without any form of motivation behind it.
However, most motivation can be summarized into two forms:
Gain motivation AND prevention motivation (in other words, prevention of pain)
It is a crazy mind game, but somehow you will find that most people are able to motivate themselves in ways that allow them to defy the odds and accomplish great things. They have two hands, two legs, two eyes and one mouth. What makes them (normally) different from the rest of us?
Motivation. No one procrastinates something in and of itself. There is a reason behind everything.
There are many forms of motivation that I can share about now. One is by doing something that you enjoy. Most people who are struggling with starting a business, for example, find that the more their business is focused on their favorite hobby, the more they will work hard at it.
Working at something you like doesn't feel like work!
People drag themselves out of bed every morning to go to work, but wake up extra early to head on to the golf course! Why? Motivation.
Find what motivates you the most and try and apply it to your tasks.
Never ever neglect this mindset.
Next, I will talk about:
"Prioritizing"
To Your Online Success,
Peter Duxbury
OnlineSalesSuccess.org
Sunday, 3 June 2007
Overcoming Procrastination Part 1
Why is Procrastination destructive to our lives?
Procrastination is subtle. Really subtle. The way it works is so subtle that it eats away voracious amounts of time and we don't even realize it.
How innocent it seems, to let time slip by. We deceive ourselves into dealing with it the next minute, next hour or the next day or month.
Somehow, we always feel that it will somehow get done by itself. Yet, at the end of the day, there still isn't enough time to get things done.
We know that life gives us it's fair share - 24 hours a day to the rich, poor, famous, invalid, busy or lazy person. Time is fair in the sense that we have the choice to do exactly whatever we want with these 24 hours.
You get only 24 hours - not a second more or less.
What makes procrastination so deadly is the fact that life is full of sob stories on how people had such a wonderful plan and a great idea that somehow, never came to life or conceptualized in the real world.
Imagine if Albert Einstein procrastinated and decided to write the theory of relativity 'much later' while he played with his dog now (assuming he had one)? Or if Thomas Edison decided to invent the light bulb once he has 'got his things out of the way'. Perhaps today we will still be using candles.
That is just a hypothetical example but you get the idea how destructive procrastination is.
Procrastination must be dealt with. Period. You have to be very clear in your mind what the destructive effects of procrastination are and how you must deal with it NOW, not later.
Next I'll talk about the general mindset on how to deal with procrastination:
"Dealing with Procrastination: What we are up against"
To Your Online Success,
Peter Duxbury
OnlineSalesSuccess.net
Procrastination is subtle. Really subtle. The way it works is so subtle that it eats away voracious amounts of time and we don't even realize it.
How innocent it seems, to let time slip by. We deceive ourselves into dealing with it the next minute, next hour or the next day or month.
Somehow, we always feel that it will somehow get done by itself. Yet, at the end of the day, there still isn't enough time to get things done.
We know that life gives us it's fair share - 24 hours a day to the rich, poor, famous, invalid, busy or lazy person. Time is fair in the sense that we have the choice to do exactly whatever we want with these 24 hours.
You get only 24 hours - not a second more or less.
What makes procrastination so deadly is the fact that life is full of sob stories on how people had such a wonderful plan and a great idea that somehow, never came to life or conceptualized in the real world.
Imagine if Albert Einstein procrastinated and decided to write the theory of relativity 'much later' while he played with his dog now (assuming he had one)? Or if Thomas Edison decided to invent the light bulb once he has 'got his things out of the way'. Perhaps today we will still be using candles.
That is just a hypothetical example but you get the idea how destructive procrastination is.
Procrastination must be dealt with. Period. You have to be very clear in your mind what the destructive effects of procrastination are and how you must deal with it NOW, not later.
Next I'll talk about the general mindset on how to deal with procrastination:
"Dealing with Procrastination: What we are up against"
To Your Online Success,
Peter Duxbury
OnlineSalesSuccess.net
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