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*Article Use Guidelines* This copyrighted article is free for you to use as content in opt-in publications, or on your Web site. When you use it in opt- in publications, or on a Web site, please include the resource box. However, please do not charge for it. Please DO NOT include it in CD compilations, paid-subscription sites or in publications for which you charge. ** Summary: You can end procrastination forever, and move confidently towards your goals. Category: Small Business Words: 1000 Beat Procrastination With Your GPS (Goal Positioning System) Copyright © 2003 by Angela Booth ** The first article about using your GPS: "Use Your GPS (Goal Positioning System) To Achieve Your Goals", appeared in Issue 28 of CSB. Go to http://www.digital-e.biz/newsletter.html and click on "Archives" to read it. *** Researchers estimate we only use around two to ten per cent of our brainpower each day. This means that much of the mental processing power you've got is rusting away, unused. This is literally true, because when your brain cells die they aren’t replaced. If you could find ways to access more of your fantastic brainpower, what could you achieve? Could you double or triple your current income? The first article on your GPS (Goal Positioning System) outlined how you use it. Here's the process in a nutshell: you set clear, time-limited goals, you visualize yourself successfully completing tasks and achieving your goals every day, you use your intuition, you write ABOUT what you want, and why you want it, and you create and use a daily task list. The key to accessing more of your brainpower lies in the tasks that you procrastinate on. When you resist something, the resistance uses up more energy than completing the task. Your resistance also leads to feelings of guilt and unworthiness, and these feelings lower your overall effectiveness, which means you use even less of your total brainpower. Here's how to use your GPS to tackle your procrastination: => Write down where you are, exactly what you want to do, and how you want to feel while you're doing it "But I already know what I want to do," you protest. Yes, that's true. But part of you is weaseling out. Your left brain might want to complete the task, but if you're procrastinating, it's a sign that your right brain and your unconscious mind have other ideas. For whatever reason, they want no part of the task and will do their best to ensure that you don’t do it. Procrastination's insidious. If you're procrastinating, you'll find any number of super-logical reasons NOT to do the task. You'll suddenly remember those phone calls you have to make. Or that you haven’t called your mother all week. Or that you really need to check on how your online auctions are doing. Let's imagine a scenario. Let's say you're procrastinating on mowing the lawn. The grass is almost to your knees and your house-proud neighbors are so peeved that they turn away when they see you. Take out a pen and paper and write down where you are, what you want to do, and how you want to feel while you're doing it. You'll find that as you're writing, the other parts of your brain will start to kick in. As you write: "It's Tuesday, almost 4pm, and I'm sitting in the kitchen having a cup of coffee. I want to go and check the mower, and mow the lawn. It will only take me half an hour, and I'll feel energetic and pleased with myself while I'm doing it. The lawn will look great." Mowing the lawn is a simple enough task, and once you've written it down, chances are that you'll march right out and do it, because the unconscious resistance you have to the task just melted away. I have no real idea why writing things down --- where you are, what you want to do, and how you want to feel while you're doing it --- works so well in combating procrastination, but it does. Try it. On the other hand, you may get real feelings of conflict when you write down what you want to do. If that happens, keep writing. Ask yourself (in writing) what the problem is. Maybe you'll write: "I haven’t got time to mow the lawn. I should be working on that presentation I'm giving next week." Aha! Now you're getting to the nitty-gritty. Your procrastination about the lawn-mowing and subsequent frustration with yourself is masking your real problem, which is anxiety about your upcoming presentation. You can deal with that, now you know what it is. You could write: "I will mow the lawn and feel great while I'm doing it, and then I will work on the presentation for an hour. I will feel relaxed and calm and confident while I work on the presentation." You'll be am ... Author: Angela Booth |
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