Tips to beat procrastination from a recent time management training workshop in Brighton and inspired by Brian Tracy’s book on time management and procrastination, Eat That Frog.
Tips to beat procrastination
- Be aware of your favourite procrastination activities – time management change start with awareness
- Set the intention to change – mental attitude is a good start – be specific too
- Do something easy first to gain confidence (frog tickling)
- Break larger tasks down to actionable “next steps” (giant frog slicing)
- Ask will later really be better? (some it will be)
- Do the hardest thing straight away (eat that frog)
- Envision successful outcome and consequence of not doing (frog visioning)
- Set deadlines for yourself – artificial or real
- Public declare you will do something at a set time
- Make it easy to start (e.g. lay your gym kit out the night before)
- Use self rewards and consequences – e.g. “I will go get a coffee after finishing this.”
- Establish patterns, habits and routines incompatible with procrastination
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Mark Walsh
I James. I run a training business that uses Integral. My clients are not attracted to this per se though – more in the background.
If you'd like to guest post here you'd be welcome.
All the best from Brighton,
Mark
James Wagner
Mark,
Thanks for the rules. I'm curious what exactly you do. I'm doing some work for an integral practice based organization here in San Francisco at http://www.integralawakeningcenter.org and I'm curious if there are any parallels in terms of building a community of integral practice. What do you offer most? What do you find people with an attraction to an integral approach to life are really needing?