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Identifying Your Time Habits

by Michaeline on May 23, 2009

I wanted to share another concept from the book SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life: a four step guide to getting unstuck (Fireside 2008) by Julie Morgenstern.

In the book she discusses how the habits of mindless escapes, procrastination, perfectionism, chronic lateness and workaholism add to your schedule. These “habit attachments” can drain you of energy and time that could otherwise be used in pursuing your dream (or from her book theme).

She suggests that you need to understand the original value of why the habit was first acquired. Or what purpose is the habit serving in your current life. For example, are you chronically late because you are anxious when confronted with downtime and/or did you have one parent that was chronically late and does the habit provide a connection with them? [click to continue…]

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Stop Procrastination

by Michaeline on April 25, 2009

In my previous post I talked about understanding why you may have the habit of procrastination. Identifying the pay offs and reasons why you procrastinate are the first steps to changing this habit.

Here are some tactics you can use to stop procrastination in its tracks:
• Do the worst first. It may not be as hard as it appears.
• Set a deadline and work backwards to break the project into smaller parts.
• Commit to someone else and ask them to keep you accountable.
• Just do it! Pick one thing right now that you can do on the project.

Set yourself up for success and take the stress out of your life by taking small steps. You don’t need more time in your life. Instead you may need to stop wasting time by procrastinating and fretting and use the time to take action and soar.

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Insights Into Procrastination

April 21, 2009

Do you wonder why you are sometimes stuck doing the same thing or why you have settled for mediocrity? Why do those piles keep reappearing or why can’t you get some of your goals accomplished? We all procrastinate to a point but there are those that are consistently late, miss deadlines or put things off. [...]

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