How To Stop Procrastinating By Using The “2-Minute Rule” ©iStockphoto.com/MariaPavlova Recently, I’ve been following a simple rule that is helping me crush procrastination and making it easier for me to stick to good habits at the same time.
I want to share it with you today so that you can try it out and see how it works in your life. The best part? It’s a simple strategy that couldn’t be easier to use. 7 Ways To Better Use Your Time. You only get 24 hours every day, and while there are plenty of ways to wring more out of the time you have, there isn’t a way to get more of the stuff.
But no need to worry—there are plenty of ways to use the time to have better. Here are 7 of them! 1. Slow down. The Top 10 Life Benefits of Time Management. 9 Lesser-Known Tips for Getting & Staying Organized. Being organized offers a slew of benefits.
Do You Do This Common Mistake When You Start Working on Your Tasks? It’s 6 AM and you are ready to do some work related to your online business: writing the next free report for your e-mail list.
You have an hour to do your work until the rest of the family wakes up. You fire up your computer and open the word editing software of your choice. However, as soon as the blank page opens in front of you, you feel kind of helpless. After pondering for around ten minutes, you don’t have anything concrete written on the screen and you start to feel frustrated. It’s now 06.20 AM and you barely have anything useful written on that document. Needless to say, you keep adding and deleting sentences, as you are not happy with what you see on the document. Yes, you are pissed, and that’s not a good way to start your day. The simple habit that is missing This example was related to online business, but the same can happen in any profession or in anything you set out to do. Actually, what is happening here is way too common, but there is a simple way to fix it. 1. 2. How To Stop Procrastinating By Using The “2-Minute Rule”
The Organized Executive's Blog. Effective Note-taking. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Today, more and more we need an effective way for note-taking, but most of the times, we fail in finding a quick and effective way of keeping our important notes, ideas and tasks. The reason, is that we try to do a lot of the things (or a few,…) with our notes, resulting, the most of the times, to make them unusable. Notes, is a very important aspect of our information capturing-collecting-organizing-processing-reviewing process and a key component in any productivity system.
If you consider that: “The pen is mightier than the sword” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton (From wikipedia) then, the effective note-taking skills and habits, increases your capacity for learning, doing and perform in an optimal way! The Search for a Ubiquitous Note-taking System It seems that there is no any single productivity system, to match exactly the note-taking requirement of each person, even though some, seems more promising than others!
How to Meet Important Deadlines. Rating: 4.3/5 (36 votes cast) A good friend of mine with a beautiful young wife, loads of energy, and plenty of ambition, makes the mistake of working too much, too late at night.
You can probably relate. And like him, you also have better things to do with your free time. He recently wrote, “I like to plan my next work day each evening, but this often turns into me trying to finish up bigger projects. Once I start these projects, I can’t quit before they are complete, because I know they’ll be running around in my head keeping me up at night. Our friend is on the right track. 10 Simple Ways to Double Your Productivity. I rarely find anything more satisfying than ending my day feeling like I accomplished what I wanted—apart from accomplishing more than I expected.
Time is the resource we desire the most of, but we handle it so badly. Many of us in our youth never really accept that deep-down knowledge that the four hours spent doing quite literally nothing are hours we will fight tooth and nail to gain back. But we never will; time doesn’t work like that. Being productive sounds daunting and downright preachy to many. It’s pushy. Ten Myths About Productivity pt.2. 12 Tips for Defeating Procrastination and Gearing Up for Action.
Procrastination is not the cause of your inability to get things done.
Instead, it masks a deeper underlying problem. The underlying problem can be any of the following: low self-esteem; perfectionism; fear of failure; ineffective goal-setting; imbalance between work and play; and so on.