Time Management and Quitting Procrastination

Three Time management strategies

1. Seasoning.   2. Time quickening.   3. Avoid Procrastination. 

1. Seasoning

The achiever doesn’t get side tracked, every day he concentrates on micro-tasks that make up his macro-purpose and each completed a micro-task becomes a pleasure and rewards in itself. You can achieve your macro-purpose by actually ignore it, only concentrate on your micro tasks and do it every day as a routine and you will achieve your macro-purpose smoothly.   Write a paragraph today and every day and you will end up writing a book but if you focus on writing a book, you maybe get frustrated and have less energy because yo focus on the big goal rather than the small task that you can do now. Shortcuts lead to mediocrity and failure. If you try to hurry the success, you will ruin it

2. Time Quickening

It is what happens to your Perception of time as you become involved in your pursued of your goal, it is a magical experience where time seems to disappear and you know you are in complete control of what you are doing, when it happens you feel energetic, concentrated and completely absorbed in your task, as you do something you really enjoy you don’t feel the time, you only feel so focus and concentrated to finish your task. You can experience time quickening by creating a sensation that time has stopped, you can do it by becoming single minded or uninterruptedly involved in activity for significant period of time. 

2. Time Quickening(cont.)

6 steps for  time quickening: 1. Create or find a working environment that is free of distraction. 2. Focus on doing on task at a time and stick with it until it is completed. 3. Surrender yourself to the task in hand, work hard and work well and don’t stop working until you have finished the task. 4. Plan to work uninterruptedly of a significant period of time, several hours if possible. 5. Don’t watch the clock as you work and don’t continually compare how much you have accomplished against how much you still have to do. 6. Stop working when your thinking becomes muddled due to fatigue. The more you practice these 6 steps the easier they get

3. Avoid Procrastination

Procrastinators divide to three groups: 1. Fear failure: work at less than their capacity, don’t take risks and challenges, so they are never really challenges and therefore they will never fail, one symptom is you don’t do your work in time, if you fail you blame the lack of time, if you succeed you think you are great because you have finish your work at the last minute and you can handle anything, Procrastination is usually the fear of failure rather than laziness. 2. Fear success: they limit their own performance, actually holding themselves back because the kind of change success may bring to their life with more attention and responsibilities. 3. Rebelling against authority: they don’t do their work because it gives them the feeling of control over their boss, they have the fear of being controlled or dominated, whenever something is expecting of them, they react by procrastinating just to prove that they are the ones in power.

Techniques to overcome procrastination Do something every day for no other reason than you would rather not do it at all (as soon you catch yourself thinking, well, I will not do that now, I will do it later, you must immediately do whatever it is you procrastinating about).   The self-disciplined are not easily diverted from their goal-oriented activities. They know how to resist the temptations that would divert time and energy from the completion of their priority activities.

Two Techniques to Avoid Procrastinating

1. Swiss cheesing Dividing a macro-purpose into a series of micro-tasks, if you have a 2-hour task, Swiss cheesing it creates eight 15 min-segments or four 30 min-segments.  

You can use the Pomodoro Technique which you have to focus on a task for 25 min. without interruption then take 3 min. break and you can take 30 min.break after 5 pomodoro sessions

2.unscheduling  Exercise   This schedule starts when you wake up until you go to sleep Fill the hours in the table that are occupied with work, travel, meal,  meeting, regular recreational activities and other commitments, only fill in the time the absolutely must be devoted for activity (if you watch T.V. or surf the internet for 2 hours every day that doesn’t qualify as a life necessity, when you finished, look at the boxes that you haven’t filled in, these represent your free time ,time you have full control over and you can devote them to your won micro-tasks for your macro-project, also you can use the time you spend on bus and transportation to work on your micro-tasks, don’t overwhelm your with many tasks in your free hours, just focus on one task at  a time and you will moving towards your goal.

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Caption: : UNSCHEDULING WORKSHEET

Remember

Achievement with excellence requires time and effort.   Self-disciplined people are not intimidated by the thought of a long-term commitment to the achievement of a goal.   USE TIME OR LOSE TIME