Tip 47 Are you a morning person?
Fitness trainers ask people this question a lot because exercising at a specific time of the day is an effective method for maintaining discipline. The same applies to the office. If youre a morning person, tackle your difficult responsibilities when youre most energetic and productive before lunch.
Leave the less essential ones for another time. And then there are some people who like to work through their lunch hours because thats when they reach peak energy levels; that way they leave the office early to have that extra hour to spend with family.
You tell her sheepishly that you didnt have time to do it, and you say something like, My son was sick for days and I couldnt concentrate knowing full well your editor was generous with a deadline date.
Quit Procrastinating
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I have tasks to do, and I will write them down so I can decide which of them need to be done by 12 noon. Thats just our way of saying that when you read things on paper, youre able to act logically; this is much more effective than just thinking out how to avoid procrastination. Bittel in his book, Right on Time (McGrawHill, 1991) calls procrastination an insidious temptation that plagues all of us. |