Thursday 12 November 2009

21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastination

1) Set A Table: Decide exactly what you want, clarity is essential, write out your goals and objective before you begin.

2) Plan Everyday In Advance: Think on paper. Every minute you spend on planning can save you five or ten minutes in execution.

3) Apply The 80/20 Rule To Everything You Do: Twenty percent of your activities will account for eighty percent of your results. Always concentrate your efforts on that top twenty percent.

4) Consider The Consequences: Your most important task and priorities are those that can have most serious consequences positive or negative on your life for work. Focus on these tasks above all alls.

5) Practice The ABC Method Continually: Before you begin on a list of tasks, take a few moment to organize them by value and priority, so that you can be sure of working on your most important activities.

6) Focus On Key Result Areas: Identify and determine those results that you absolutely positively have to get done to do your job well and work of them all day long.

7) Obey The Law Forced Efficiency: There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important things. What are they?

8) Prepare Thoroughly Before You Begin: Proper prior preparation prevents poor performance.

9) Do Your Homework: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and sooner you get them done.

10) Leverage Your Special Talents: Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing or could be very good at, and through your whole heart into doing those specific things very very well.

11) Identify Your Key Constraints: Determine the bottlenecks are choke points internally or externally that set the speed at which you achieve your most important goals, and then focus on alleviating those constraints.

12) Take It One Oil Barrel At A Time: You can accomplish the biggest and most complicated job, if you just completed one step a time.

13) Put A Pressure On Yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work if it has to get all your major tasks completed before you left. Define deadlines for your tasks, to put pressure of yourself.

14) Maximize Your Personal Powers: Identify your periods of highest mental and physical energy each day and structure your most important and demanding tasks around these times. Get lot of rest, so you can perform at your best.

15) Motivate Yourself Into Action: Be your own cheerleader. Look for a good in every situation. Focus on a solution rather than on a problem. Always be optimistic and constructive.

16) Practice Creative Procrastination: Set that you can’t do everything you must learn to deliberately, put off those tasks that are low value, so that you have enough time to do the few things that really counts.

17) Do The Most Difficult Tasks First: Begin each day with the most difficult task, the one task, that can make the greatest contribution to yourself and your work, and resolve to stay at it, until it is complete.

18) Slice and Dice The Task: Break large complex tasks down into bite size pieces and then just do one small part of the task to get started.

19) Create Large Chunks Of Time: Organize your days around large blocks of time or you can concentrate for extended periods on your most important tasks.

20) Develop A Sense Of Urgency: Make a habit of moving fast, on your key tasks. Become one, as a person who does things quickly and well.

21) Single Handle Every Task: Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task and then work without stopping, until the job is 100% complete.

JUST DO IT

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