Archive for July, 2007

by Tobias Reibber
An old adage says that no one will love you until you first love yourself. That can be tricky to do, because you may not be able to see all of your own wonderful qualities. Positive reinforcement can be a powerful tool in improving your self-esteem. The easiest way to do this is through self talk exercises.

Self talk is that little voice inside your head that comments on everything you do. Confident people hear a voice that says “good job”, “you look great today” and “you deserve wonderful things”. These people feel smart, attractive and worthy. If you suffer with low self-esteem, the self talk is critical and even demeaning. It can be a constant reminder that you feel inferior to others.

It’s important that you realize that the critical, nagging voice is wrong. You already possess everything you need to become a confident person and lead a fulfilling life. The trick is in telling yourself over and over until you realize that it is true. This is one of the hardest things for people with low self-esteem to believe, but it is true. Tell yourself you’ll get what you deserve, and you will get it.

Your personal self-talk can determine how you act toward others and, in turn, how they react to you. If you tell yourself and believe that you are truly confident, you’ll act in ways that inspire trust in others. Self talk that fuels uncertainty and low confidence, on the other hand, causes you to act in ways that creates doubt in others.

It can be hard to face the little voice in your head, but you need to do it in order to break the vicious cycle. Hear the negative messages, and react to them by reinforcing your own positive messages. Positive self-talk is the first and most important step in improving your own self-esteem.

If you need extra help, or want to learn more about positive self-talk, there are many self-improvement books, videos and CDs available to you. Self-improvement groups and seminars are also great ways to get the information you need. Look online and in bookstores for available resources.

If you try self-improvement methods without success, you should consider speaking with a professional counselor or therapist who is an expert in self-esteem improvement. Combining the strength of personal counseling with the added reinforcement of self-help tools can only improve your chances of success.

You are a worthy, valuable person. Your time is also valuable, so don’t waste it by paying attention to a critical voice in your head. Take control of your self talk and you will be able to take control of your life. Only then will you begin to live the life that you deserve.

Columnist Tobias Reibber is a regular contributor to numerous well-known web sites, on health plan tips and health and wellness tips topics.
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by Coach Steve Toth
A lot of my clients and potential clients always ask me this question. What I always tell them is absolutely. However, before you can even begin to master life balance, you’ll need to go through a simple process and then use a tool that will keep your promises and commitments to yourself and to others in check.

It also helps if you can create your plan from the future. Make a list of what’s important to you and how good you really want your life to be? You can complete an easy exercise called the “Life Balance Wheel” click here for instructions. To get you started on this journey.

Once you have completed the preparation you need a tool, that will get you to start changing your habits, keep you honest and accountable. Most people want to use a to-do-list that’s either kept in their journal or in an electronic format like some kind of time management system, Outlook, Lotus Notes or a PDA. Except that, that will not work anymore, because this isn’t about managing your time, it is about managing who you are being now vs. who you want to be as a future possibility. As you have noticed keeping lists like a to-do-list do not work anymore, because in most cases to-do-lists are not dynamic and the items you don’t check off to-day don’t go anywhere. That is a perfect system to get you off the hook.

Years ago, while I was looking for a coaching system, I have found one that does exactly what you need to keep you consistently doing the 20 of the results you really want. Instead of the other way around, doing 80 of the results.

The system is called: Life Balance coaching software (yes this can become your virtual coach) that provides a dynamically ordered To Do List driven by the importance of your goals, your desired allocation of time and effort, and feedback from what you get done each day.

Life Balance is a time and task management program that helps you focus on what’s really important to you and actively balance the often conflicting demands of career and personal life. Life Balance emphasizes the intrinsic importance that you’ve assigned to your projects and life goals, rather than arbitrarily filling every slot in your calendar. This helps you to spend your time and energy on what matters to you the most (80/20 rule). You can be self-directed, and know that you are working toward long term goals while still managing your day to day routine.

“…I am starting to think that one virtue (among many) of your software is that it raises the question ‘if I need to postpone lots of stuff, what does that say about my declared goals and priorities’ (which is something that I find it much easier to avoid confronting in standard to do list software).”

The software is compatible with Windows, Macintosh and Mobile Palm OS. You can also sync your PDA with your desktop.

To get your 30 Day Free Trial click on the link below We are providing free application support during your 30 day trial on how to use the application once you have installed it. (Refer to Llamagraphics for any installation or compatibility issues.) We are a certified Life Balance Associate and can provide you with specific application support after your purchase of the product as well.

Part 2 of this article will address How to use Life Balance Software.

To Your Success,

Coach Steve

Real-Coaching Institute is an internationally acclaimed coaching organization utilizing business and life coaching techniques to create extraordinary possibilities and growth for you to become the person you always wanted to be. Taught by Steve Toth, Coach, Licensed Practitioner, Consultant and Radio Show Host. Real-Coaching Institute your source for Real Estate Agent, Real Estate Investor and Mortgage Broker coaching. Life Balance Link: http://mortgagefocus.org/links.html

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by John Mehrmann
Print out this quick tip to get ahead with time management and try it for one week to see how it works for you. It can take less than five minutes for you to get ahead of your projects, your schedule and your competition.

Five Minutes in the Morning

Do it first thing in the morning, maybe as you are enjoying a cup of coffee or sitting at your desk and mentally preparing for your day. Get a notebook and pen ready. Do not get distracted by email or phone. Prepare to donate five minutes or less of your time to yourself. Go ahead, you are worth it.

Some people prefer to do this exercise at the end of each day and that is not a problem. I suggest doing this at the very beginning of each day because it sets the tone for the rest of your day. It is more effective to feel rushed by the desire to get started on your activities than to feel rushed by the distractions of what is really on your mind at the end of the day.

Your List of Things to Do Tomorrow

Many people find it effective to make a daily list of things to do today. It can be helpful in keeping track of important activities, meetings or chores that need to be completed. It also creates a feeling of accomplishment as items get checked off the list one by one. It is always nice to see progress.

Starting today, we are going to kick progress into the next gear. We are going to start thinking about what we need to accomplish tomorrow.

As you start each new day you will already have a list of things that you need to do today because you made it yesterday. You already have a jump start on your projects and your competition because you were already thinking about what you will do today. Furthermore, your mind had a chance to sort out some of the details on how you will accomplish your goals because you had time to think about them the day before.

As you make your list for tomorrow, you will be able to reflect on how your decisions and actions today will contribute to your activities and goals for tomorrow. If you are planning to complete some paperwork, presentation, or interaction tomorrow then you may be able to do some of the preliminary research, analysis or preparation today. Planning for tomorrow will change the way that you think about your priorities and how you invest the quiet moments of today.

Another important advantage of planning based on your list of things to do tomorrow is that many activities require collaboration with other individuals. By planning in advance, you can communicate and coordinate with other resources so those people can also plan and prepare accordingly.

Urgent or Important?

What is the difference between urgent and important? The urgent things are those milestones that must be complete by a scheduled deadline. The deadline may be today, tomorrow or several days in the future. Important things are milestones that have significant meaning. Important milestones may have an impact on business decisions, results or future activities. You know which items are urgent to complete and which ones are important to you, but do you allocate your time accordingly?

Review your list of ‘Things to do Tomorrow’ and annotate the items that are urgent or important. If something has an urgent deadline then write down the date and time that it must be completed next to the item on the list. If something is important then give it a rating. Some people use a rating scale of 1, 2 or 3. Some people prefer to use an asterisk or a star to identify an important task, adding more stars as the significance increases. The list and the rating belong to you, so mark it in the manner that has meaning to you.

Keep It in View

One common mistake of making a priority list is putting it out of the way once it is done. Some people will take the time to make a list and then close up the notebook or fold up the piece of paper and put it out of the way. Out of sight is out of mind.

Once you have started this process, you should have two lists at your fingertips every day. One is your list of things to do today, and the other is your list of things to do tomorrow. The most effective way to manage your lists is to keep them in a notebook or daily calendar and place it prominently on your desktop. The list contains the items that are urgent and important to you, so it should be in plain sight as a constant reminder and for easy reference.

Celebrate Accomplishment

How do you celebrate accomplishment? Check off each one of the milestone tasks as you get them done. Do you feel the sense of satisfaction? How can you reward yourself for keeping commitments that you have made on your list? Some people celebrate by taking a short walk from the desk to get some fresh air. Some people celebrate with a cup of coffee or a snack from the vending machine. Some important accomplishments deserve to be rewarded by a nice lunch or fancy dinner. Treat yourself with something special when you complete a commitment that you have made to yourself. Go on, don’t be shy, you are worth it.

Another Way of Looking at It

Another way of looking at it is a style that combines the list of things to do today with the list of things to do tomorrow into one list for easy reference.

TODAY

To Do ________________________________ Urgent? ______ Important? ______

To Do ________________________________ Urgent? ______ Important? ______

To Do ________________________________ Urgent? ______ Important? ______

To Do ________________________________ Urgent? ______ Important? ______

TOMORROW

To Do ________________________________ Urgent? ______ Important? ______

To Do ________________________________ Urgent? ______ Important? ______

To Do ________________________________ Urgent? ______ Important? ______

To Do ________________________________ Urgent? ______ Important? ______

Give this a try for a week or two. When someone introduces the “issue de jour” because the sky is falling, and you are asked to jump though flaming hoops in three directions at once, then pause to reflect on your structured schedule of urgent and important milestones for today and tomorrow. How does the new issue of the day compare to the previously scheduled commitments? There is no need to panic. Simply prioritize your list of urgent and important activities, discuss your availability and schedule with those other individuals who may contribute or be affected by it.

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Words of Wisdom

“A schedule defends from chaos and whim.”
- Annie Dillard

“One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.”
- Kin Hubbard

“‘Good Faith’ implies mutual trust and commitment. Without mutual commitment, ‘Good Faith’ is really nothing more than ‘Blind Faith’. Wander around blindly long enough and eventually you will step in something.”
- John Mehrmann

“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
- Henry Kissinger

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About the Author:
John Mehrmann is a freelance writer and President of Executive Blueprints Inc., an organization devoted to improving business practices and developing human capital

John Mehrmann is an author, speaker and industry expert with Executive Blueprints Inc. http://www.ExecutiveBlueprints.com

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by Organized Families
Some of us are blessed with an internal alarm clock. A little voice that wakes you up two minutes before your alarm goes off. This may be a blessing if that little voice also alerts you ten minutes before your son’s soccer game or before the school bell rings. However I don’t have that blessing.

Of course I have the internal ability to wake up 30 minutes BEFORE I have to wake up after only five hours of sleep. Unfortunately that alarm doesn’t seem to carry over into the waking hours. A thirty minute heads up would be handy.

Not having that constant heads up, instead, I wear the super mom cape as I leap over shoes, bags and the cat in a flurry of movement. Knowing full well that the school bell is going to ring in ten minutes and the drive is a minimum of 11 minutes and three seconds if no one is in the cross walk and that light isn’t red. Of course, I will have to drive laps to locate a place I can stop to let my son in. All the parking spots are taken by those nannies with an internal clock.

I thought I had the alarm clock before I had children. As a professional Nanny I was never late for a soccer game, a music lesson, or birthday party. It turns out there are two types of internal alarm clocks. The one reserved for those of us who don’t have children under the age of 18. This one allows you to roll out of bed just before your alarm goes off after a night of 8 hours of restful sleep.

Then there’s the other alarm clock. The one called the mom alarm clock. This internal alarm wakes you up at three minutes before the baby needs to be fed, or two minutes before your toddler wets the bed, or 8 minutes before your five year old wakes up with growing pains. Sometimes these alarms are all in the same night. The mom alarm clock results in a pure hatred of the real alarm clock that wakes you up at 7 am as the children are peacefully sleeping telling you to start your day.

Luckily I have some other time management tips under my cape to keep me on time and organized as a mother. Despite the internal mom alarm clock working against me at night, my children make it to their soccer games and birthday parties, usually with the present and cleats in the bag. Was that the blue bag or the red one?

Kay McFarlane is the designer of the printable mom planner and owner of OrganizedFamilies.com. Her time management skills and humor help her make through each week as the busy mom of three children, contractor, student, and business owner.That same humor and skills are shared each week at her website for busy moms.Copyright 2007. Article may only be distributed on websites and newsletters targeting women and/or parents. Full author bio and link must be included.

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by Cheryl A. Clausen
If you have yourself so time stressed that you feel you can’t squeeze even one more thing in, you are exactly the person who would most benefit from a little training in time management. Getting yourself into the position of being so strapped for time is neither healthy for you nor productive for whatever you are trying to accomplish. The first thing you will need to do as part of your time management training is to identify how and why you are in this predicament. Quite often it’s because you are a person who just can’t say no.

If at the end of the day you wonder where the day went and you haven’t accomplished anything really important that day, you are exactly the person who would benefit from a little time management training. This happens when you get so focused working in your business rather than working on the business that no one is really running the business. The same is true if it’s your career rather than a business. When you allow the production part of your business or the job to run your life you frequently find yourself with a business or a career that is going nowhere. Someone, namely you, has to actually run the business or your career. This means learning how to step back to do some long term planning so you have targets to shoot for.

If your work area looks like a bomb went off or a tornado ripped through the area, you are exactly the person who would benefit from a little time management training. Do you tell yourself that a little clutter doesn’t get in your way and that you know exactly where everything is? Well, even if you do buy that you also have to realize that it is a reflection of how clear your thoughts are. Bet you never thought of it that way, did you? So looking around you, how does the state of your mind look? Hmmm.

If you are constantly being told by others that you need to get more done, you are exactly the person who would benefit from a little time management training. Where is the real problem? Is the problem the difference between your pace and the pace of others or is the problem a lack of clarity between what is expected and what you are producing? Until you get to the real root of the problem both you and those around you will continue to be frustrated.

If your family and friends no longer recognize you, you are the person who would benefit from a little time management training. Are you confusing being busy with being important and activity with results? Time management training can help you to clarify what’s important. It can help you identify what you can delegate, and it can help you to stop doing what you shouldn’t be doing in the first place. When you start focusing your activities on those that get results; and you start delegating those that can be done better, faster, and cheaper by someone else you’ll be amazed by how much additional time you find.

If you are a person who is feeling overwhelmed and burned out, you are the exact person who would benefit from a little time management training. This is a very bad place to be and one you should be very motivated to get out of. Although there are some of you that actually think that these feelings are just part of being a business owner or just part of the job and almost where those emotions as a badge of honor. Recognizing that those feeling really aren’t necessary and that they don’t make you important, or profitable, or successful is a first step in getting you to change both your thoughts and your behaviors.

Would you like to learn more about your time behaviors? Try this Time Management Analysis and find out where your opportunities for improvement are. When you absolutely must have measurable results to consistently and predictably get where you want to go for Superior Success…visit CoachingMegaAgents to start on your journey for superior success.

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by Cheryl A. Clausen
This time management tip will help you to understand how to change how you use your time planning system and ultimately how you spend your time. A good first step in using this time management tip is to set aside some time to work through this with a paper calendar in front of you that you can write on and throw away if you mess it up. You may want to just make a copy or print a copy of a blank week from Outlook or the electronic system you are currently using.

Now that you have a calendar in front of you the next step is to make a list of the things you have to do each and every day. The key to this time management tip is understanding exactly how much time is spent each day on just the ordinary requirements for living. So list the things you must do each day like: driving to and from work or to and from appointments or wherever you drive each day, preparing eating and cleaning up meals, any household chores, time you want to spend with family and friends, time spent on personal hygiene, specific tasks required for work, etc. Make sure you include everything in this list

The next key step involved in this time management tip is to required how much time is involved with each activity. So beside each activity in your list of things you must do each day and things you want to do each day record how much time is required to perform that activity. Now add up all those time.

Did this time management tip provide you will a reality check? When most people do this they quickly find that their total time needed to do all the things they must do each day is far bigger than the amount of time available in a given day. So now it comes down to choices and priorities.

To implement this time management tip you will need to prioritize, delegate, and dump. Now that you realize that you are asking yourself to do the impossible you have to ask yourself, what is possible? Start blocking time on your calendar around the things you absolutely must do allowing ample time to complete each must do.

Evaluate the time spots you have open in your calendar and fill in the most important things over and above the absolutely required things. It’s at this point following this time management tip when you have to decide what you will eliminate and what you can delegate.

Would you like to learn more about your time behaviors? Try this Time Management Analysis and find out where your opportunities for improvement are. When you absolutely must have measurable results to consistently and predictably get where you want to go for Superior Success…visit CoachingMegaAgents to start on your journey for superior success.

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by Cheryl A. Clausen
You have an internal clock that you are born with. When you try to fight and work against your internal clock it’s an uphill struggle that dramatically reduces your productivity. The simple truth is that when you try to work against your internal clock it takes you much longer to accomplish the task at hand, and you are much more likely to make frequent mistakes that cause you to have to do a lot of reworking. Working against your internal clock is a poor time management strategy.

If working with your internal clock is a good time management strategy how do you know what your internal clock is telling you? It’s just a matter of identifying your peak times for different levels of activities and tasks. Once you know when those peak times are you can schedule to tackle your projects when your internal clock is best set to handle the task.

What time of the day do you have the most mental energy? This is the time of day when you can stay focused on the task at hand and really get down to work planning and problem solving. This may be first thing in the morning, right before bed, or some other time throughout the day, but when you recognize when you can think the most efficiently use your time management strategies to schedule your activities that require the most mental energies at those peak times.

What time of day do you have the most physical energy? Do you need to get out and stretch after a long day at work? Whenever you find that you have pent up physical energy throughout the day, it’s during those times that you want to plan your physical activities.

What time of day are you most creative? What part of the day do you find your thoughts turning to new ideas or new ways of doing things? That’s when you should be scheduling time for your creative tasks.

When are you most tired? Ideally if you find that about mid-afternoon you are just fighting to stay awake this is a great time for you to schedule a mid-afternoon nap. Unfortunately, if you work for someone else your employer may not understand. But you understand that during this low energy slump is not the time for you to start high energy projects.

Would you like to learn more about your time behaviors? Try this Time Management Analysis and find out where your opportunities for improvement are. When you absolutely must have measurable results to consistently and predictably get where you want to go for Superior Success…visit CoachingMegaAgents to start on your journey for superior success.

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by Cheryl A. Clausen
There are a number of reasons most time management programs don’t work for you or anyone else, but the biggest reason is because most time management programs don’t take a holistic approach to the problem. Almost never are you having difficulty with time issues because you don’t know about a technique or system. You are having trouble with time issues for reasons that are very specific to you. Until you know and understand what specific to you is getting in the way you can’t even hope to get your time troubles out of your life.

Many time management programs are focused on a day planner system. There are a number of day planner systems that include time management programs either with them or have them available for sale. Yes, you will need to use a day planner system to gain control of your time but there isn’t one day planner system that is perfect for everyone and until you know your exact behaviors that are causing your time management problems you aren’t in a position to choose a day planner system. You need two key pieces of information before you spend one penny on a day planner system. You need to know your own problematic behaviors and you need to know what you want to get out of or from the day planner system.

Sometime time management programs are focused on certain techniques that are supposed to resolve all of your time management issues. Again, I highly doubt that there are magical techniques out there that you have never heard of. But even if there are, the ones that will be important to you are the ones that address you and your specific needs. So, even if you know about the technique you probably don’t recognize its value in relation to you and your needs.

Rarely do time management programs address you and your specific needs because they are designed to help the masses rather than to help just you. The next time you pick up a prescription from the pharmacy read the insert the pharmacist gives you with the medication paying close attention to the information about adverse events. Drugs only have adverse events in a very small percentage of the population or they don’t get approved by the FDA. That’s great right? Well, it’s great unless you happen to be one of the people in the small group that has that adverse event because now for you it is a 100% occurrence. The correlation here is that what may work for the masses and be a great solution for most people may have zero value for you, and you are the only person you really care about.

Rarely do time management programs include the personal support you need to make the changes that will have the highest impact and most value for you. You can’t see your own blind spots, that’s why they are called blind spots and those blind spots that you can’t see may be the very behaviors that are causing you the most damage in your efforts to get control of your time. Outside personal support can help you to identify those blind spots and help you to get results faster than you ever could on your own. When or if you ever played sports you had a coach to spot your bad form, to show you the correct form, and to help you practice it so you didn’t keep making the same mistakes. Same concept applies with how you handle time. Why make it harder than necessary and prolong the stress?

Frequently time management programs are given in a workshop or seminar format. Workshops and seminars can be highly motivational and you can walk away with some great ideas. The big problem with that format though is that you will forget 50% of what you heard after one day and after two weeks you will remember less than 16% of the information you were exposed to. Obviously, if you want to make real life changes this isn’t the best format for the problem.

Would you like to learn more about your time behaviors? Try this Time Management Analysis and find out where your opportunities for improvement are. When you absolutely must have measurable results to consistently and predictably get where you want to go for Superior Success…visit CoachingMegaAgents to start on your journey for superior success.

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by Cheryl A. Clausen
A powerful time management program will include assessment(s) of your time related behaviors.Assessments are scientifically validated instruments that help you to understand either the “why” of your behaviors or the “how” of your behaviors, and can also indicate both depending on the instrument(s) used. Assessments eliminate the guess work about your time based behaviors. They also help you to uncover blind spots that you have about the way you handle your time.

A powerful time management program will help you to understand how you behave in relation to time in response to problems, people, work pace, and procedures. Usually you don’t think about these things you just react. Yet when you read the report you recognize and can see those things in how you behave. Understanding how you behave in response to certain stressors is a first step in making choices about what you want to do over what you are doing.

A powerful time management program will help you to understand why you behave the way you do in relation to time. This helps you to identify the real motivators which cause you to take action. Your motivators can be situational if they aren’t one of your two dominant motivators, but your dominant motivators are the things that will always spur you to action. Understanding your motivators helps you to gain clarity about what’s in it for you when it comes to taking action in certain areas. And if it isn’t a motivator for you knowing this helps you to identify what things to say “no” to in your life.

A powerful time management program will help you to develop your own personal action plan. That means that based on what you have learned from your assessments and how you behave in relation to time you are in a much better position to identify the top 1-3 areas that you want to focus your attention on. Then you need to get specific about the things that you could do that would have the most beneficial impact on you.

A powerful time management program will help you to develop implementable actions from your action plan. Nothing happens until someone takes action and that someone is you. Until you have your action plan down to the level of specifically what you want to do by when and how you will do that you don’t have an implementable plan you just have an idea board. The final step is getting your actionable steps into your daily planning system and then taking those actions.

A powerful time management program will include outside help. If it were so easy you would have done it yourself already and you wouldn’t even be thinking about time management issues now. The reason it hasn’t been so easy up until now is because you have tried to do it alone and you tried to do it without the key powerful elements required for an effective time management program. There are some things self-help isn’t a good fit for and for most of you time management is one of those things.

Would you like to learn more about your time behaviors? Try this Time Management Analysis and find out where your opportunities for improvement are. When you absolutely must have measurable results to consistently and predictably get where you want to go for Superior Success…visit CoachingMegaAgents to start on your journey for superior success.

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by Cheryl A. Clausen
If you suffer from procrastination a good time management strategy for you is to make procrastination enemy number one in your life. Procrastination deprives you of satisfaction, success, and happiness. It causes unnecessary stress, frustration, and pressure in your life. Procrastination is the biggest unnecessary and controllable time waster that exists. So how do you know if you are a procrastinator, and what do you do about it if you are?

If you are a procrastinator, you have probably made procrastination a life-long habit. Your time management strategy is never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. You don’t even start something until it’s almost impossible to complete the project by the deadline. When you finally make the commitment to take action you are a whirl of activity and you don’t allow anyone or anything to interrupt you because you have a deadline to meet. If your time management strategy was to approach all your projects with that level of fury and commitment from the moment you were first aware of the project you would have it done far in advance of the deadline and could move on to other things without having to deal with all that unnecessary stress.

Your negative attitude may be the cause or source of your procrastination. Your attitudes drive your behaviors and your behaviors drive your results, so if a negative attitude is fueling your procrastination including affirmations in your time management strategy is a good plan. Affirmations are positive statements about your ability to do the task at hand, the value of the project, the speed with which you can complete the project etc. All re-enforcing the positive impact of successfully completing the project on time or even ahead of time in your life.

Have you ever found that sometimes you procrastinate because of your fear of failure? This one may not be one that you openly admit to yourself, but if you start thinking back to the times you didn’t follow up with a potential client or didn’t submit your work so it could be considered for an award or whatever you have put off in the past you may realize that part of you didn’t want to get things completed because of your fear of what might happen if you failed. A time management strategy for you is to ask yourself what the potential outcomes are when you take the action you are supposed to take, and then make sure you are comfortable with those outcomes.

The opposite of fear of failure is fear of success. Your fear of success can be another reason for your procrastination. You may worry what others will think of your new found success. As part of your time management strategy you may want to explore the impact of succeeding and prepare yourself for the consequences.

Do you find that its hard to complete things because they’re just never quite good enough? Perfectionism can really get in your way. Recognize that perfectionism can never be achieved and that you can only do your best. It is a better time management strategy to just do something than to just keep putting it off. Zig Zigglar is frequently quoted as having said, “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly”. Perhaps his advice is something for you to take to heart.

Do you ever find yourself just stuck because you aren’t quite sure how to handle the task at hand? Yet, as you think about when you were in those situations in the past, when you finally got started did you find that it wasn’t as hard as you thought it would be? Whether you think it will be hard or if you get stuck working on the project a good time management strategy is to reach out quickly and get the help you need rather than just hoping you will somehow be able to work through it on your own.

Would you like to learn more about your time behaviors? Try this Time Management Analysis and find out where your opportunities for improvement are. When you absolutely must have measurable results to consistently and predictably get where you want to go for Superior Success…visit CoachingMegaAgents to start on your journey for superior success.

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