17 Sep 09 Stop Procrastinating

Procrastination is a very bad trait for you to have in your personal inventory. Mostly because if you’re a procrastinator, you’ll find that you almost never achieve the things that you intend to achieve. Whether in life in general, or at your job, or in the small accomplishments you want to make in your personal life. Procrastination can be a hard habit to break, but with some work it can be done, and it’s worth your time. All you have to do is stop procrastinating about breaking that habit for good.

First ask yourself what the biggest problem causing your procrastination is. Do you get distracted easily when you try to do something? Do you lack motivation? By targeting what the problem is, you can look towards changing that aspect of your personality, and hopefully eliminate your tendency to procrastinate.

First off, whether you are distracted easily or unmotivated, try breaking up large tasks into smaller ones. If it’s a big yard project you’re trying to tackle, try accomplishing the whole by just doing a little at a time. Like tending to a garden, try just doing one short task each day, and you’ll find that you’ve accomplished everything before too long. This is a good first step to stopping procrastination in the future, as it gets you on the horse accomplishing the tasks you set for yourself.

Try eliminating distractions if you find yourself easily taken from your tasks. Try leaving your cell phone inside while you’re out in the yard. Or try turning off the background noise of a television or radio, or your iPod, so that you can have full concentration on your tasks. Sometimes that little bit of background noise can distract you enough that you can’t keep your thoughts together. That simple of a change can help you stop procrastinating.

Tags: Background Noise, cell phone, Concentration, Distractions, Habit, Ipod, Job, Lack Motivation, Little At A Time, Little Bit, Personal Inventory, Personal Life, Personality, Procrastination, Procrastinator, Radio, Television, Tendency

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08 Aug 09 Keep Your Personal And Professional Lives Seperate

One of the keys to being successful at work is remaining stress free. One of the keys to staying stress free is being able to relax, and a good way of being able to relax at work, is knowing how to separate your work life from your home life. Too often, especially in the corporate world, your personal life can be completely devoured by your professional life, becoming a never ending battle that can leave you incredibly stressed, and underperforming in both halves of your existence. Knowing how to wind down and keep the office located strictly in the office is one of the most important tenants in life.

What you need to do first is define your personal life in general. Everyone is going to have a different opinion on what work means to them. If you find yourself more career oriented, in which climbing the business ladder and increasing your salary are the most important things to you, then you’ll have to account for having less personal life in favor of more time to work. Whereas just making a comfortable amount of money that allows you to pursue your interests is more the style where your personal life needs to be protected from your professional.

Make daily lists of what you’ve completed and what you haven’t completed at work that day. This way you can target the problems that you’ll need to work through the next day, thereby getting them out of your way so that you don’t have to be forced to think about those problems long after you leave work. Organizing yourself will allow you to leave your plan for working through your job related problems at work, so that you don’t need to be considering those things long after you’ve left the office.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t have time to complete a project. If you’re more personal life oriented, don’t feel guilty if there are times you could stay later at work to complete something, but you’d rather be spending time with your family. As long as it’s not something that affects your job performance on the whole, it’s okay to put something on hold in favor of your personal life, and you shouldn’t feel guilty just because you want to pursue your own interests over your work interests.

Finally, just make sure you always make time for your private life. Some days you can lose yourself in your job, counteract this by putting in time on you daily calendar for yourself. Whether it’s seeing a movie you’ve been waiting for after work, or going on a date, or just spending time with your family, mark it off on your calendar so that you’re aware of what you want to be doing. Always make time for yourself, because work isn’t everything in life, and even if you need to mark that on your calendar, just don’t forget the fact.

Tags: Amount Of Money, Existence, Important Things, Job Related, Ladder, Personal Life, Professional Life, Professional Lives, Relax, Salary, Spending Time With Your Family

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08 Aug 09 Stop Feeling Tired

Tiredness is a battle that a lot of us face, whether at work or in your personal life, and it can have some very negative effects. Being tired essentially ruins your ability to stay motivated, or to think up new ideas or concepts, or even to be creative enough to keep positive energy going in every aspect of your life. But there most definitely are many things you can do to combat that tiredness before you really see a negative consequence.

Consider removing the typical wake up drugs that people turn to when feeling tired. Sugar and caffeine is exactly what I’m talking about. Both are horrible to use when you feel tired, as it provides for unnatural energy that your body will use up in a short amount of time, giving you a short energy boost, and then leaving you feeling more deflated than before. By getting your body dependant on these actually makes you feel more tired than you normally would, when they aren’t present in your system.

Instead focus on something more natural for your body. Like aerobic exercise. Something good and intense, like jogging or bike riding. Both improve your physical condition, strengthening your body so that your muscles and metabolism both work more effectively. That will increase the amount of energy you can put out, fighting off that tired feeling, and helping you function much more effectively.

Sleep is another vitally important element of being healthy and not feeling tired. Not getting your 8 hours every night has very negative effects on your body. Your ability to concentrate will be severely compromised, and your body will not feel fully recharged, leaving your muscles tense with a feeling like they’re just out of gas. You have to get your sleep so that your body can fully recharge itself, letting yourself rest so that you can wake up anew, strong and read to take on the day.

Tags: Aerobic Exercise, Amount Of Time, Caffeine, Dependant, Drugs, Element, Energy Boost, Many Things, Metabolism, Muscles, Negative Consequence, Personal Life, Positive Energy, Sleep, Tiredness

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