So you are struggling to manage your time?
I understand how you feel – with a busy life and growing responsibilities I struggled for years to develop good time management skills but nothing seemed to work.
So I fully understand what you are going through.
But I have a secret for you . . . . I finally learned how to manage my time and so can you!
The problem is procrastination – avoiding something that needs to be done. In other words – putting things off!
You see, academic research has shown that 90% of people procrastinate. And of those who procrastinate 25% are chronic procrastinators – the same people most likely to fail their course.
The habits we form at college carry through for the rest of our lives, so get this: 9 out of 10 people around you procrastinate, and more than 2 out of 10 procrastinate chronically!
And here’s the good news for both of us. If we can defeat procrastination not only can we develop good time management, we can also get ahead of 90% of the population!
So let’s use a powerful secret to beat procrastination
What is the secret? It is called Self Contracting.
With Self Contracting you can defeat procrastination once and for all by committing yourself to a set of specific techniques, and in effect entering into a binding contract with yourself to achieve the very best time management.
Some of these techniques are simple and you can apply them today:
1. Make a contract with yourself that you will tackle the task that you normally avoid or put off, and reward yourself with a small treat – like another cup of coffee – when you have finished.
2. Tasks that people avoid and put off are often the big projects that are daunting and overwhelming. Do not be intimidated. Break the big task into small ones and tackle them individually.
3. A really practical step to help you focus on the task in hand is to get one of those simple kitchen timers and set it to the time you have committed to the task. Put it beyond reach, settle down and just focus exclusively on the task until the timer rings.
Its simple and it works. I know a multi-millionaire who swears by it!
Do not ignore these simple steps. Be sure to take this advice seriously if you want to break procrastination and commit to real time management.
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