Shelve Procrastination Once and for All - Five Behaviors to Control and Vanquish This Devil

By Stuart Bazga

AT some time or other we've all done it. We postponed our physical exercise routine till tomorrow; we continuously put off concluding that assignment or beginning that company.

Laziness is the mom of all demons and can literally stop you in your tracks from achieving all that you desire.

Below are my 5 effective procedures you could use to slay this titan called procrastination.

1. Do it now!  

Sound familiar?

Hold your breath and hop straight in! Putting things off until the last minute is a peccadillo and like all practices is implanted in our subconscious mind and difficult to damage.

It seems like the typical thing to do and we simply continue along our path. To complete a job quickly might even really feel strange or like a forced activity.

When your employer offers you an activity, or when your customers or consumers demand your knowledge, do it immediately!

You not only look efficient to others, the feeling that the work is done, is complete before the deadline, will certainly be one of well-being and appreciation

How would this efficiency look to your clients when you ask for a referral or to your boss when income reviews are nearing? I would assume, "Great".

2. Take infant steps

Often we hesitate due to the fact that the task might be frightening to us. Probably we have no possible hint on where to begin.

In these cases, it is fairly fine to take it one action or step at a time.

For instance, let's say you are preparing a business strategy and for the 5th time today, you've activated the COMPUTER and reviewed the blank screen.

Or you've merely remembered you have to do some more analysis previously before you begin... you're still not prepared.

My friend you ARE ready.

You simply have to break down the job in to smaller items and deal with each bit independently.

Make each job a specific job and after the conclusion of each one, commemorate and recognize your achievement.

Soon you'll be completed and have no hint as to why you were putting it off to begin with!

3. Vision the perfect

Ah! I love this one. I utilize the Law of Attraction with my clients to have them quickly and easily achieve their desires and needs and basically, their vision.

As soon as you know that you are in fact procrastinating, making a vision of you attaining that plan is extremely helpful.

When you produce a vision you write in the present tense... as if you have currently achieved your goal or if you are in the procedure of completing it.

For example, let's go back to the business strategy. Your vision might look something similar to this.

"I am so grateful that I have actually finished all the research I require for my business strategy. I am locating the info effortlessly using the internet.

"People that have actually composed business strategies are supplying me guidance that allows me to create an exciting strategy that I resonate with. As I compose, the words come to me effortlessly... "

In having a vision and concentrating on it daily, the universal laws specify that people, things and processes will start to take place in your life that will certainly permit you to attract that vision.

4. Forget it

That's right. Forget it!

Why oblige the problem? If you have actually been 'dragging your feet' on something for a lengthy time, it could all be advantageous.

Something, somewhere is attempting to tell you something. That something is your instinct and it is usually right!

Think about something that you have been delaying time and time again. What are the factors that you have to complete this activity in the first place?

Does an individual wish you to do this? What is THEIR agenda? Exactly what are YOUR reasons for this prolonged delay?

I have discovered that 99 per cent of the time I put off doing something, I am thankful that I did! Overlooking a job after a very long time of procrastination is nevertheless often a last resort.

5. Get a Support Team

Do you postpone activities because you really feel that they are excessively large and complex for you to manage alone? Or from the time when you need assistance?

Be sincere with yourself. "No one man is an island".

Request help! There are lots of resources available that can offer you help with all you need to perform your task.

If you're a solo-professional and you delayed addressing emails, do not answer them yourself. Employ an aide, discover some college students that desire the experience, find a relative to assist.

Putting things off on life-altering tasks could be as a result of worry of the unknown. Join a mastermind team with other like-mind professionals, discover a mentor, join a support group.

You don't need to do it all by yourself. Merely make certain that to kick this practice; you do what feels good to you in whatever technique you decide on.

You'll unquestionably vanquish the devil that is procrastination.

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Settling For Less Than You Know You Deserve - Reasons Not To Settle For Less

Guest post by Suzie Doscher

ONE of the main motivators not to settle for less surely must be that life is simply too short. Time seems to be flying by faster and faster - all the more reason to make sure you are enjoying the life that you not only wish for, but also the life that offers you a sense of fulfilment. Settling for less is something that everybody does along the way at some point or another.

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The situations in which you did settle for less can offer you an opportunity to learn, to find out what you want - from having experienced what you do not want! Settling for less means having chosen to limit yourself and your potential, and in a way wastes some precious time. However, if you learn from this, your time was not wasted because now you can think about what to do differently next time you are faced with such a choice.

Wrong Job?

Say you accepted a job offer mainly based on financial fears but you knew, in no uncertain terms, you were compromising yourself. You had enough security to ride it out a bit longer but not the courage to hold out for 'the right' one. It, no doubt, is a tall order to let a job offer go when you feel another one is not in sight. Fears have a lot of power over our decisions. If, on some deeper level, you knew this job was not really the right one, you are choosing to live with the feeling of having undervalued yourself. Long term, your heart and soul will let you know they do not appreciate the compromise!

Spiritually Thinking

To quote one of my favorite 'teachers', Caroline Myss: "Spiritually thinking; everything happens for a reason. We are able to learn from everything that happens to us. Both positive and negative occurrences are here to teach us something. If our path is to be true to ourselves and we live 'our' life, based on our values and our truths then everything that happens is happening to eventually lead us to our true life. There are no coincidences, again positive or negative. We can learn something from every thing."

Everybody knows the feeling of settling for less, at one time or another most people have been in jobs, just for the money offering no satisfaction, spending time with people they do not enjoy, going places they are not interested in, living through experiences of relationships that let them down, having friends that take advantage of them etc.

Staying in the Rut

Sometimes it is just easier to stay in a rut than find the courage to change something. It can be easier to settle than step out of your comfort zone. Settling in relationships that do not make you happy can often be the result of not wanting to be alone, or any other type of fear that keeps you stuck.

If you suffer low self esteem, taking a look and finding ways to increase it - be this with self help literature, a therapist or a coach - will lead you to better decision-making; decisions based on what you want, not what your more insecure self wants!

We most certainly do not have control over all the events in our life but we do have choices, even when it feels like we do not. Sometimes, buying yourself some time is the best decision, based on the choice to say "No" in that moment, the other choice being saying "Yes".

Reasons not to compromise yourself

Settling for less, knowing that you are making a comprise makes life difficult. Difficult, because being in the wrong job, wrong relationship, and wrong anything does not make for a 'flowing' day-to-day life. Believe it or not, consciously or unconsciously, this leads you to self-sabotaging your own choice.

When something is right for you and either keeps you, or puts you on your path for a fulfilled life, synchronicity sets in, good things appear out of nowhere. When not, obstacles surface. These obstacles are opportunities to learn.

Follow the path of successful people who have, or found the courage to take risks (emotional or otherwise), value themselves enough to stay on the path to their ultimate goal, which surely must be a fulfilling life, which of course includes financial security, giving back and living within a code of ethics.

"It is better to want what you do not have, than to have what you do not want."

Suzie Doscher Life Coach for Personal Development. I understand Personal Development to be a clearing out the old to make way for something new. This could mean letting go of things, people, behavior, or draining emotions that simply no longer support the way you wish life to be.

Maybe it worked in the past, but now it is time to move on... For more information contact me via http://suziedoscher.com, or http://coachgroupofch.ch to schedule your Complimentary Introduction to Coaching Call.

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Becoming Iconic - Are You Noticeably Above And Beyond?

By Douglas R Kruger

THE scale of your thinking will determine the scale of your career.

That said, take a second to think about the 'über names' in your game - the parameter-redefining, industry-owning, top-of-the-food-chain, big dogs. Who are they?  

Can you become iconic?

If a smug voice in the back of your head said, 'Well, I'm one of them!', then perfect. Carry on.

If not... why not? What's keeping you from those stratospheric levels of success enjoyed by the legends?

While 'time in the game' may seem like the most obvious factor, it certainly isn't the case for everyone.

Permit enough time to go by, and most middle-level players simply continue to be middle-level players.

So perhaps there's more to it than the natural passage of days.

It begins with desire. Owning an industry is a decision of will.

It begins with the choice to no longer accept median positioning, and its machinery kicks into gear only once you've developed a burning desire to become more.

In short, no one will ever force you to do the work or, think out the strategy necessary, to be a large-scale success. You have to want to.

So, let's assume that you have the desire, but that it's mixed in equal parts with doubt. That's perfectly natural. But it does need to be addressed.

There are three things you can do to expand the parameters of your thinking:

1. Convince yourself

What are the highest-earning practitioners in your industry earning?... Be it per assignment, or per annum? Write the figure down on a piece of paper.

Now ask yourself: 'What would it take for me to believe that I'm worth that much?'

Answer the question in bullet-point format, listing as many things as you can think of - be it qualities or qualifications - that would make you feel that you are among those lofty elite.

The resultant list represents the work you need to do. It is a road map of the gap between where you are now, and where you want to be.

2. Strive to be 'noticeably above and beyond'

For goodness' sake, stop trying to be 'as good' as the best practitioners. The best one can hope for under the circumstances would be to become a pale comparison of.

Start thinking about how you can be noticeably better.

You require this scale of thinking to get to those hallowed echelons. The best in the game did not get there by trying to be 'like' the best before them. They operated out of a desire to be even better.

Are you thinking of ideas that would get the reaction, 'Oh, wow!' from your target market, rather than just, 'Yes, that's what we would expect'?

If I look at your competitors, your industry, your world, would I single you out as 'noticeably above and beyond'?

3. Think of yourself as a leader

I believe very deeply in education. I believe that most of the propellant that will take you to the top consists of learning.

However, beyond a certain point, you need to start teaching too.

You need to reach the point within yourself where you recognize that you have more knowledge than most, have discovered more pioneering ways, have more insights and epiphanies under your belt, and can begin to lead.

You need to flip that switch in your mind, nominate yourself, and become a voice.

The barrier-to-entry for thought-leadership exists only within your own mind. No one ever gives you permission to lead. No one flips the switch for you.

The scale of your thinking is everything. If the desire is there, and you can think big enough to be a viable candidate for the top spot, you have correctly aimed your trajectory.

In all things, be guided by the phrase 'Noticeably above and beyond.'

See you at the top!

Douglas Kruger is a professional speaker and author who encourages people to think. He speaks on Expert Positioning and the misunderstood link between work and wealth.

He is a 5x winner of the SA Championships for Public Speaking and the author of three books. See him in action or read more of his articles at http://www.douglaskruger.co.za.

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How to Use Visualization to Get What You Want

By Maria McMahon, BSc

WHAT do you really want in your life? The simple mindset change you can make to immediately start heading towards the life of your dreams - in minutes!

Want wealth? Health? A better job? Better relationships? Not many people know this but the first thing you must do is determine exactly what it is you DO want.

See it in your mind.... and make it a reality

Most people know what they DON'T want. Eg, 'I don't want to be broke', 'I don't want to be alone', 'I don't want to be fat', 'I don't want to be miserable', etc etc.

If you listen to your 'self-talk', chances are you are saying 'I don't want... ' whatever it is dozens, if not hundreds, of  times a day.

What this kind of self-talk does is send constant reinforcement to your subconscious mind about everything you do NOT want.

And according to the Universal Law of Attraction, what you think about and focus on is what the Universe sends back to you.

What your subconscious understands in your self-talk is those words that carry emotion with them. Debt. Loneliness. Fat. Misery. It doesn't get the 'I don't want' bit at all!

What can you do to change this and bring more of the great things you desire into your life? Simple!

Start by writing down a list of the top 5 things you DO want in your life. Be specific. Don't say: "I want to be rich."

How much do you want to have, exactly? $100,000? $500,000? $1,000,000? Pin it down.

Then write it as if you already have it. Eg: I have X $ in the bank. I have a wonderful new partner. I'm slim. I'm happy.

Next, close your eyes and focus on what you've chosen. Visualize it! Make it gorgeous, make your heart pound with excitement at the thought of being, doing or having these things.

Imagine them as reality in your life. See them in your mind's eye in glorious color, feel the emotions you'd feel when you have them, hear what people are saying to you.

Stay with this and really get into it. Give it everything you've got.

Why? Because your subconscious mind does NOT know the difference between what's real and what's imagined. This is scientific fact.

So imagining like this makes your subconscious start to think it's real.

The more you do this, the quicker your new desires will be conveyed to the Universe and the process of their becoming a reality in your life will get underway.

Don't worry for now about the mechanics of HOW you are going to achieve this. When you've had your fill of these gorgeous new things as reality in your life, open your eyes.

Make a decision NOW that you will practice this visualization technique every single time you have a negative self-thought.

Switch your mind back to this glorious new life you have started planning for yourself. You can do this in seconds. Don't underestimate the power of this exercise.

Maria McMahon
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Certified Hypnotherapy/NLP Practitioner
Certified Advanced Law of Attraction Practitioner

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