Procastination is a danger your success in life! As we all know we love to give excuses for not doing things all the time. We may have plenty of ideas running in our heads and we can visualise the desired results we want and then forget to come up with tactics and strategies to implement our ideas.

Its great to visualise everyday but we have to shift our focus on the steps and action we have to take in order to accomplish our goals!

Most of the time we keep talking about what we want and what we have to do…but we hardly put our words into action! There could be so many excuses we could give to ourselves and others.

So we can come up with a whole list of excuses like:

-       I have been busy with work

-       I go out too much

-       Im not feeling right…I feel buggered and cant be bothered..

-       I don’t feel like doing anything after work..

-       Im too tired

-       I don’t have the time

-       I don’t need to do this

-       My friends ask me to go out too much

-       Im angry and not in the mood to do it

-       And the list will just go on and on..and before you know it you have not done anything at all!! We all living a busy life and so you are not the only one that is busy..many more people are just as busy but can do great things in life!

Time is precious and we should make use of it…the time we use to boast, talk party, go out, lets make use of it and actually do something productive.

Of course you need to take the time to relax and chill out but I’m sure if we put our excuses behind and actually take the steps to move forward we can actually find the time to do what you want. Work with what you are doing and now!

No matter what your goals are, you can always break it down to mini goals for the day, so you ensure that you are taking small steps to achieve your big goals.

Every step you take every day counts, but if you don’t do anything but just dream of ideas and just visualize then expect to have an outcome well then I can guarantee you won’t achieve anything at all.

Here are tips to help you get started!

-       get a diary and plan your schedule

-       Scribble on a piece of a paper when you usually get really tired and when your energy levels are up. Its important to understand yourself and know what time of the day you have a lot of energy and motivated to do something. If it’s a lunch time or a specific time during work, then take a break and choose to do something productive around that time!

-       Plan your day and the week- fit in the little tasks you have set yourself!

Trust me when you have achieved something little for the day you will feel better than doing nothing at all. Remember to take small steps “only a bite at a time” you will never finish a large whole cake in one bite so take small bites at a time in order to finish it!

If you can’t achieve something little how can you achieve your bigger goal? So don’t overwhelm yourself too much by thinking of the end-result or outcome but rather just focus on what you have to do for the DAY ONLY…and know that you are capable of completing it within the day so that way you wont be discouraged when you don’t achieve your task for the day!

See for myself I find that I struggle heaps when it comes to blogging because I feel like I can never find the time to blog but I will have a million of ideas running through my head. I will ask myself when can I blog? But every time I go to gym after work, and then get home have dinner and shower I realize that I just can’t look at another computer screen again! So I have a come to a conclusion that after work I am not productive so I should perhaps use this time to relax and read instead. During this time I feel like I’m not doing anything to achieve the goal I have in mind but in fact I am because I am letting my mind rest and recharge. This then helps me a lot to re-think and re-evaluate what I should do to achieve my goals. On the other hand when there are times that I have heaps of ideas and I am less tired such as during my lunch break, I will actually sit down and write down ideas for my blogs are actually start typing away…weird but it works!

I still work at my own pace and I have also learnt to work around my busy schedule. I know that after work I will definitely go to gym and then go out on most days so by the time I go home it will be too late to sit in front of a computer screen and blog because the last thing I want to do is just relax and wind back before I sleep!

So whenever you feel like not doing something, then you have break down your task into a smaller task because if it’s a big task you don’t want to do it completely which means you are just throwing out your dreams and ambitions out the window at the end…don’t think that something little a day does not count, it does COUNT because regardless how much you do, you are still a step closer in achieving your goals! So don’t stop visualizing and acting!!!!

There are lot of things which we procastinate. Everybody has different thoughts about different things. Once you do the things which you were procastinating, you will feel it was not that difficult.

Here are the things that I always procastinated -

1. Washing my car.

2. Go to any Government office.

3. Calling customer care.

4. Fix the things in my bathroom.

5. Teaching my wife how to drive a car.

6.  Waking up in the morning.

7. Taking bath in cold water.

The important point to notice is when you start doing it, it becomes easy. After achievement you think it was not at all difficult.

“Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill” -Christopher Parker

How typical of me to get things done only at the last minute. I really should get started on my discussion topic for nct.

It always amazes me that the number of strikeouts in my to-do list pales in comparison to my assignments left undone even though I AM working on them non-stop.

…Or maybe I just ‘think’ I am.

Anyhoo, A new list of items to be done.

1. NCT blogpost #3
2. NCT blogpost #4
3. Research for NCT’s discussion
4. Portfolio
5. PP-memo to director
6. NCT CA2
7. Sign up for barcampsg4

There. I feel smarter and more productive already. ((:

I just realised that today it’s exactly two months ago that I found the FlyLady System. Two months that made a huge difference to my home and to me feeling homey at home.

I have uncluttered knickknacks, books, clothes and shoes. I dusted, vacuumed, cleaned windows, swished, swiped, cleaned doors, lamps, re-ordered book shelves, emptied the space under my bed, sorted all of my paper work and I don’t know what.

Most of the time I felt very strong about my doing and enjoyed the process. I still don’t like house work but doing it in little steps lets me find it doable and tolerable.

Nevertheless it becomes winter now and I feel more lazy and less energised. Somehow last week I didn’t do any assignments which is something I don’t feel good about. I thought about the reason for it because 15 minutes a day is very doable.

Beside feeling more tired I think I might need to make myself more accountable. I saw different threads in the FlyLadyForum about accountability. As I don’t like the set up of the forum much I have decided to do my own here. I’ll post the weekly sneak peek and will update my doing of it daily. Let’s see how it works.

A lot of times in this life, we promise ourselves that things will get better. Maybe when we get that promotion we’ve been waiting for, maybe when we lose some wait, whatever the case this is true for most people. I recently came across a file on my home computer entitled “GOALS 2009″. It is mid October and by all means I have had plenty of time to complete many of these tasks. The dirty, rotten god-damned truth is I can’t really say I completed one fucking thing on this list. That really pisses me the fuck off. I gave my self 1 entire year to do about 20 or so things and I couldn’t even do the easy ones. How fucking lame am I. The real reason I bring this up though, because normally I would privately wallow in shame, and self hatred, bu the real reason I bring this up is because I can’t think of one person I have ever met in my entire life that has actually accomplished all of their new years resolutions. Can you think if anyone? If so, you can just get the fuck out of here right now. I am writing this post as a challenge to myself. I have roughly 2 and a half months left in this year of our motherfucking lord 2009, and I am motivated to take a big old nasty dump of satisfction all over that list once I have checked off every single task on it.

LET THE WILD RUMPUS START!

Have you ever heard this before – “if only I had more money or a business or lived in another city, my life would be completely different.” Would having one minor change in someone’s life magically transform the years of habits, behaviors and personality of that individual?

The reality is it wouldn’t. If a person does not know how to manage wealth, winning the lottery will not result in living a luxurious lifestyle for the rest of that person’s life. We are all creatures of habit. We like to believe certain things about ourselves, whether we are aware of them or not.  We constantly make decisions and surround ourselves with people that reinforce the beliefs we have about our lives.

It is no wonder we feel disappointment when we do get what we want. “What? That’s it? It wasn’t as special or magical as I had thought it to be.” We create a distorted image of our dream and are deeply disappointed when reality is not congruent with our dream. We exaggerate the positive aspects and set our expectations too high; we  fail to see something for what it really is. We forget that everything comes with a price tag.

The reality is it doesn’t take that much to pursue your dreams. You don’t have to be rich to travel and you can own a home without first becoming a millionaire. Starting your own business is not that tough and you do not need 20 years of experience. Start to see things differently and live your life today. Don’t postpone your dreams and the next time you catch yourself saying “If only…,” stop – tell yourself to live your dream today.

Huh, I’m back from Berlin and enjoyed it very much but I was VERY tired yesterday and simply lazy. After opening my door I realised another incentive of being uncluttered – it’s sooooooooo nice to come into a home that’s clean and sorted.

Anyway, I felt lazy did nothing of what I planed yesterday BUT today I took up Kelly’s mission plus I changed the sheets and put on one load of laundry immediately. I feel good.

I also feel shocked.

Shocked, because, while putting away the dry laundry that I hung up before I left, I realised that I still had some clothes on my heater. I mean that was the whole issue that actually started my “journey”.

I had sorted through part of my closet already and I had empty space in it though I know that there are still things in it I can get rid of. And here perfectionism is rearing its ugly head!

Subconsciously I didn’t want to put my clothes into my closet before having uncluttered EVERYTHING!

OH MY!

It’s like the FlyLady describes that we don’t want to put our clean plates into a dirty cupboard.

I cannot believe I fell into this trap. Anyway, I realised it and put away the clothes immediately + I ironed my whole tops for this week so that I am prepared in the morning!

I feel good.

am no longer emo- as clearly symbolized (although I suppose it wouldn’t be a symbol if it was clear, now would it) by the change of color. 

Okay, so the change may have more to do with the fact that it reminds me of the fall, my FAVORITE season and because I’m practitioner of  escapism…

And so, my imaginary readers, I …need to get back to Henry IV Part One

<3 Shakespeare<3

 (not that he needs anymore- God did that man have an ego *poets*)

Ta,

Chathurika (pdaervo)

There are four steps in eliminating procrastination that can frustrate our goal setting process. They are 1) slowing down, 2) using your eyes, 3) redirection and 4) taking action. Each one is simple but combined they are a powerful methodology for eliminating procrastination from our lives. This process isn’t a single instance because it is common to continue to apply this system time-after-time because habits are hard to break. Even after a long period of time, it is easy to slip into procrastinating again.

The first step is to take the time to slow down and mediate about the area we are procrastinating. Must we really accomplish this thing? How do we really feel in our heart? Where does this fit in our goal setting process? The outcome here is the determination to go on or to drop it. By deciding to continue, we acknowledge that the task must be done and that we are willing to accomplish it.

Next we must use our eyes and mind to see what’s going on. What’s good about it? What’s bad about it? What’s distracting me? What do I want or need to change? How and when can I change things to eliminate the obstacles? This insightful seeing really identifies what changes can be beneficial for us. It results in a new goal-setting plan, albeit a soft plan, which we can then refine. It also helps strengthen your resolve.

This moves us to the third area of redirection. We now examine the soft plan formed in the previous step. Here we use all of our skills to make it a concrete goal-setting plan. We decide how to accomplish it and perhaps create intermediate steps to get the big thing done. The outcomes here are to both create a concrete plan and also to strengthen our commitment in accomplishing it. We will become energized to accomplish that thing we had been avoiding.

Finally, we come to what was previously a wall–doing the task. At this point, we will be enthused, committed and have a plan of action. Now, we need to go out and work the plan. Because of the momentum toward accomplishing it we have created in the previous steps, this won’t be as difficult as it once was. Having examined the task throughout this exercise, we have really been proving to ourselves that we must get it done, we can get it done and then how we will get it done. Those are the hard things. This final one–doing it is really just the culmination of what has gone before. We use all this momentum to carry us through accomplishment–We Win! Goal setting has succeeded.

In closing, here are a few additional points. Procrastination is a reoccurring phenomenon. Be easy on yourself, especially in the beginning. Old habits fight very hard to retain control. Even if you aren’t entirely successful at first, the fact that you have made progress should feel good. As more time passes and your successes increase, your confidence and ability to kick the procrastination habit will increase. Sometimes, forward movement comes is jerky steps and not all of them are forward–Sometimes we go back. But, if we keep hammering the wall, procrastination will fall to our persistence.
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anywayy, i have been meaning to do my first blog in sometime LAST month… haha anywayy ill make this SHORT then hahaha.

i guess im donee =)

-schan-

I have been consciously trying to optimize and enhance the way I work/live – both professionally and personally.

Again, this may not apply for everyone, but it did apply for me . I had and still have a major problem consolidating so many different social networking platforms.

Solution: No big deal again. Just consolidate your multiple accounts into 2 email accounts. One is for your real communication with family, friends and colleagues. Second one is for subscribing to newsletters (if you absolutely need to do that) and using them to register at different sites. Usually you don’t have to worry about consolidating your multiple email accounts. If you don’t access them for some days/months, your account automatically gets disabled and your mails cleared ).

I wish I could be witty about it, but I can’t… this post comes from sheer frustration and concern. I’ve been meaning to get my first novella published, for quite a while now. A friend/editor expressed great interest in it, even managed to get a mutual friend to read it ad give me feedback abou it. The publication of my book, in pdf form, has been delayed for reasons I can’t fathom: what does my friend do with his time after work? Does he enjoy being one of The Irresponsibles, or is he part of a radical cult that has mind games as part of its M.O.? Can anyone tell me, or if they know him… would you please ask him?

And I’m not sure why. I woke up late because I had an awesome time at a party last night (NO I WAS NOT DRINKING). I did however partake in a table-to-mattress slip-and-slide and join in the festivities at the fountain (which apparently also goes by the name “drunk tank”). I also saw the craziest shooting star of my life and engaged a fellow Christian in religious dialog. Is dialog spelled right? Dialogue? *shrug*

So I’ve been working crazy hard and I’m taking a little me time. My stipend finally came through! Yes I do plan on buying a few things. I’m gonna pay my parents back first, $25 deposit to GoMusic.ru, medicine ball, and eventually a graphics card. May need to invest in a solid memory stick too, like an 8GB or something.

That’s all for now! Guess I should go to work. Ciao all!