Beating Procrastination The Easy Way

I thought I would share some ways that I find pretty effective at dealing with procrastination and getting your stuff done. These tend to work for me and I asked a few off my colleges and friends to give me a few ideas on what they think works best too.

1. Get Rid Of Your Mobile
Either move your mobile phone away from you or better still turn it off. I waste so much time just messing about with little apps on my phone that I could be using much more productively on actually doing something. I'd say its better to just turn it off because if someone calls you and you hear it then you are instantly distracted.

2. Turn Off The Laptop
Unless you absolutely have to, do not have your laptop/PC on. Now, I know that a lot of people will claim that you need it to do their work, but truly ask yourself if there is any way that you can do without it. I'm sure you'll find that you can and now you have removed the world's BIGGEST procrastination tool. Facebook.

3. Set Yourself Reasonable Goals
This could be telling yourself you are going to write 500 words and then have a little break or it could be that you will do 3 more problems and then go make a tea. Achieving these little goals will make you feel like you are accomplishing something, rather than slugging away for hours and not realising how much you are doing.

4. Plan Out Your Time
This follows on nicely from 3 and is something that can really beat the procrastination bug. If you have a structured day, then you are more likely to complete the tasks you have set yourself. On the other hand, if you just think you might do a little bit of work today then you are likely only ever going to complete a little bit of work.

5. Turn The Music Off
Now I don't care if you think that you can only work with music in the background or with the television on but this is just not true. All it would take is for one of your favourite songs to come on or a catchy advert to play and you are gone. Back to procrastination city with you. Turn everything off, close yourself into your room and just get on with it. Keeping in mind what you want to get done.

I hope that you can make use of these 5 methods to beat procrastination and get your work done! Please hit me with your thoughts on what I've said or any other ways that you have found works to beat procrastination!

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By Daniel Nuttall 10 Dans

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Peace and Quiet In Life's Thunderstorms

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune and misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Making a study of the features of time might seem numbing to the younger player, but there is something tantalising in the truths bestowed within the characterisation of time; that is, to imagine our emotional lives, more or less, at the steady state resembling time.

Some people naturally resemble such clocks. Their emotional ambience flickers little; they are not easily swayed, upset, or even buoyant. They just keep living, one ticking moment following the previous one, and so on. These have little redress for regret, for they seem to manage the tremulous minute the same as they ever do - there is a pleasant casualness about them that we tend to admire. They seem resilient and stoic.

Could it be that their minds function quietly? Are their hearts, underpinning, also more present to self-acceptance?

QUIETENING THE MIND

We all seem to understand the theory - that a quietened mind is preferable and critical for control-but we struggle with the practicality of instituting same.

This is because we understand, implicitly, how the mind should operate but we have little understanding on gaining control over it.

Could it be that there are levels of psychological functioning and coping well below the thought processes? We need to conceive that the feeling heart underlies the thinking mind. Only when we venture into steadying the heart, in seeking to understand and accept ourselves, will we be granted opportunities to sustainability quieten the mind.

THE VALUE OF STEADINESS OF HEART

Much deeper below the thinking process is the heart silently informing thought, especially stressed thought. When the going gets tough, not only do the tough get going, but the heart becomes more fully engaged. At non-stressful times we couldn't care less.

The more fully employed heart, coming in to the allegiance of both eustress and distress, is either ally or enemy. We, of course, are interested in enhancing the former and dispelling the latter.

The tumultuous seconds must be managed, not in a way where the mind is busied by the chaos of the instant, but in such a way as to busy the mind only with logic and reason enough to get through. That, there, is victorious kingdom living and it is retrieved moment-by-steady-moment.

HEART AND MIND ALIGNED

The state of the imagination, now, is sent to crisis:

Heart and mind will work in unison to produce the seedbed of the calm reality, but the default is to panic, where, again, heart and mind work together, but against us.

This level of inner collusion will produce avoidant or risky decision-making, and particularly procrastination, because of a lack of courage or the winning of fear, where what we really need in a crisis is a steady heart producing a quietened mind.

It is important to understand we have two allies in the heart and mind and that they work together to achieve, for us, peace. If we feel in steadiness, despite our fears, sticking with logical and reasoned thinking, we treat the heart and mind as allies and they work industriously for our defence.

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We are to aim to live, emotionally, from within ourselves, as clocks - ever turning clockwise at the same cadence, neither running ahead of time nor behind. That requires thinking soundly, feeling in steadiness, and, with mind and heart aligned, it achieves for us quietness of mind - even in the midst of life's thunderstorm.

© 2012 S. J. Wickham.

Steve Wickham is a Registered Safety Practitioner (BSc, FSIA, RSP[Australia]) and a qualified, unordained Christian minister (GradDipBib&Min). His blogs are at: http://epitemnein-epitomic.blogspot.com/ and http://inspiringbetterlife.blogspot.com/

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Why Is It Advisable To Let A Motivational Speaker Speak In Any Presentation?

With regards to what a motivational speaker can do in case you hire one for any of your presentation, it is important to understand that a great speaker is essentially an effective means to help those who listen bring about the change that they desire and while a lot of people think that motivating others is quite easy, that is not always the case for most of the time.

While a speaker's job is simply to convince a group of people about the benefits of learning a certain productive habit, it is necessary that they do their research well with regards to the subject matter because not every case is the same and there is this underlying root that must be taken care of in order for the change to be a worthwhile endeavor.

Keep in mind that each individual have his or her own unique outlook in life and if you think that convincing one person is difficult, then think about how difficult it really is if you are trying to convince a group of people all at the same time and that is exactly what a speaker faces every time they are standing in any presentation while giving out their awesome speeches.

In reality, a lot of companies hire a good speaker to give a seminar to their employees since they understand really well the incredible benefits of motivating their staff to perform at their best potential for as much as possible because whether you accept it or not, a motivated employees are very likely to be more productive when compared with those who aren't.

Of course, just one presentation from a good speaker will not likely deliver the impact that you desire unless it was delivered by someone who are exceptionally good at his craft and so, most of those who hire them usually make a decision to schedule a regular presentation as a way to refresh the target audience and make them remember the benefits of being motivated.

Lastly, no matter how you put it, hiring one of the speaker to give speeches in any presentation will surely motivate a number of people if not all and in case you are a parent or a guardian and are interested in bringing the best out of your children then it is strongly recommended that you read some motivational resources like Parenting Freak Ability during your spare time.

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