Three Ways To Beat Procrastination

1. Reserve A Specified Block Of Time For Consuming Info On The Internet

It’s time to end the wasting of hours upon hours of your valuable time mindlessly on stuff that really requires no more than 30 minutes each day.

I’m talking about anything and everything on the Internet that you do to consume information – reading emails and messages, checking Facebook, Twitter and digg, reading the news, blogs – everything!

Give yourself half an hour to an hour each day to do nothing but enjoy it, take care of it, or however you choose to look at it. But once you’ve used up your time, then you can’t go back to it at all until later in the day or evening, once you’ve managed to accomplish a number of other jobs.

Keep these things in their place and quit letting them control your life!

You must stop checking this sort of stuff every 5 minutes. Not only is that a momentum-killer, but in all probability, the rest of the world isn’t going to sit there twidding their thumbs waiting on your next Twitter update.

2. Take Control Of Your Inbox

Managing your email is a massive topic, to the extent that a whole book could be written on this subject (and in fact there have been – tons of them, to be precise), but it is likely that these would be the most important points:

Answer any emails that can be replied to quickly (and by quickly, I mean in less than a couple of minutes) immediately.

Keep your replies short when possible. Keep only to the salient points, and don’t get too chatty (although you must be sincere, of course). However much you dislike writing long emails, it is almost certain that the person receiving lengthy emails dislikes them even more.

Delete any emails you haven’t responded to after a month. Holding on to them does nothing but make you feel guilty every time you open your inbox. Guilt is an action-killer, so get rid of the old emails and get rid of the guilt!

3. Work As Disconnected As Possible

This means, turn off your phone (you can do it, I know you can), close your instant messaging program, and close your office door (use a Do Not Disturb sign if necessary).

You have got to get momentum on your side, because when you get that ‘flow’ going, you’re able to take action much faster, with greater results.

So, when you’re working, make sure you eliminate all distractions!

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