Part of being effective during your work hours is the discipline to spend time on what is truly important even if other things try to steer you off course. Efficiency is learning about your awareness to, acceptance of and ability to determine your real work, the actual tasks and projects that propel you forward versus time suckers, bad habits, procrastination or other low payoff activities that take you away from your personal and professional aspirations. It is a continual building process and without a strong sturdy foundation, you may find yourself with a few cracks, leading to disaster, lost time or missed opportunities.
What are you putting off today and WHY? There are things we hate to do or aren’t all that much of a priority, but what happens when you continually push things under the rug? For one, your To Do list multiplies to such great lengths that some activities just get buried at the bottom.
Procrastination List or To Do list?
Go look at your list, your calendar or wherever you record your tasks and projects. I’ll wait.
How long have some of the items been on the list? Are there any you just file in your head to do, but never make it to a list to get done?
Be honest!! What are you going to do about it? And WHEN?
Stop running away from your lists and responsibilities.
Learn to take action and manage your procrastination.
Melanie Benson Strick, America’s Leading Business Optimizer gives you tips on how to SQUASH your procrastination habits. They are very simple and easy to implement today! Read what she has to say and see if you can’t change up a few of your activities and get more important things done.
“When you find yourself procrastinating high payoff activities because you don’t have time or don’t enjoy doing them, its time to activate a more powerful approach to getting things done.
Here are the four ways to squash procrastination and get her important tasks done:
Delegate. My favorite way to handle tasks that must be done but that drain my energy is to delegate those activities to someone else who enjoys doing them. My motto is if someone can do it better, faster or cheaper than me, get it off my plate.” Melanie Benson Strick
Click to learn about Melanie’s other three suggestions: successconnections.com
What are YOUR tips to manage procrastination?
I am the queen of procrastination, let me tell ya but when it comes to my business not so much anymore. It happened at the beginning of my blogging career because I wasn’t sure what I was doing. Is that weird?
I keep a to-do list with me and I use my Outlook to manage my time. Delegating some of the work is a great idea. I would love to be able to do that.
Thanks for the tip! Definitely sharing with all the other busy procrastinators out there LOL.
Happy Tuesday!
Thank you Corina!
You sound very organized and productive using systems that work for you!! That’s the best thing. If you search the keywords procrastination, productivity and time management in the box to the left, you may find some other helpful tips. You’re on the right track!!
Thanks for your comment and sharing my post. I appreciate it. If you want to talk about delegating, you know just where to find me.
Have a fabulous evening.
Suzie
Since your the “Time Management Queen!” I’ve got to be the reigning “King of Procrastination!”
Learning to get out of your own way is definitely a career job for me it turns out!
You have simply got a fabulous blog!Filled with some really solid content!!
And you’ve got so much to teach me about strategic “social engagement! So glad I found your creative thought provoking blog!
And I’ll definitely be helping to get the word about your services!
Thank you Mark – the King of Procrastination. I love it.
I am glad you enjoyed the post and hopefully you are able to implement some of the tools.
All the best and thank you so much for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it.
Suzie