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Are you a procrastinator? Discover how you can do today what you tend to put off until tomorrow. Get into action today! A monthly ezine for organizations, business owners and professionals who want to excel.FEBRUARY 2004 IN THIS ISSUE WELCOME Greetings and welcome to all of you. We are delighted to send you another issue of KEYS TO SUCCESS. Thank you for joining us. Where did the month of January go? Winter will be over before we know it. Our daffodils are popping up already! A few more days of sunshine and warmth and those little yellow blooms will become lovely flowers. Spring is just around the corner. This month's feature article focuses on how to overcome procrastination. We all know how easy it is to avoid doing today what we can do tomorrow! Keys to Success is written and published by Carol Gegner. Are you ready to excel? Check out http://www.coachexecs.com. We are ready to help you. Any questions about your subscription? Check the end of the newsletter for information to subscribe or unsubscribe. If you like what you see, will you please help us grow by forwarding the ezine to your colleagues and friends? We truly appreciate your support. TODAY IS THE DAY Do you put off today what you can do tomorrow? Does that tomorrow become another tomorrow and then another? When you start living in the land of tomorrow's you have opened the door to being a procrastinator. Oh, we are all guilty of procrastinating at various times. We know a task needs to be done and we put it off because we don't really want to do it, we don't like doing it or we don't know how to do it. "I'll think about it tomorrow" becomes our motto. It is true that some things can be put off without any serious impact on our life or in our business. We simply can't do it all. We only have so much time and energy to use. So how can you move from procrastination to action for the things that do have an impact? Try these five ideas. 1) Plan your day. Take time at the start of each day to decide what you are going to do. Having a guideline helps keep you focused. 2) Avoid gridlock. Over plan your day with too many activities and you'll begin to feel overwhelmed. Leave some room for flexibility because you will have interruptions. 3) Select the important things. Decide what the best use of your time is and do those tasks first. You will feel much more productive at the end of the day. 4) Make a date. Create deadlines for the activities you want to accomplish. Deadlines move us to action and action builds momentum. 5) Take a bite. A little bite each day is much easier than tackling the whole enchilada. You can't eat an elephant all at once. You take one bite at a time. "Failure is not about insecurity. It's about the lack of execution." "Start from wherever you are and with what you've got." "Great minds have purposes; others have wishes." YOU CAN'T GAIN MOMENTUM UNLESS YOU START MOVING When I do my cardio exercises, I use a heart rate monitor to make sure I reach and stay within a specific target range for the duration of my workout. Knowing exactly where I am at any given moment helps me get the best results for the time and effort I'm investing. When I first begin my swim, or my walk, it takes several minutes to So it goes with many other tasks. In a new project, the research, One we do finally get started, though, the energy picks up. Where do you have difficulty getting started or maintaining activity? "Thoughts For A Thursday" published weekly by Click here to read past issues at the NEXT STEPS archives: To subscribe, send a blank message to NEXTSTEPS-on@mail-list.com. Return to the Newsletter Index. |