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,
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?
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