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How to Reinforce your Zest for a Challenge
This article will attempt to reinforce
your zest for a challenge, to enable you to take chances,
to overcome rejection and to step up to the plate when
you know you have things that need attention.
Are you like many people who put off what you know you
should do in your daily life? Is the basement, the closets,
your office, the garage, the yard work all demanding
your attention? We all delay doing some chores, but
if you are finding yourself with more and more undone
projects, maybe you are a victim of "procrastination".
This gets to be a really demoralizing situation. If
you accept the challenges that life provides, then you
are more likely to live many years longer than those
who spend their lives stressing about "getting
things done" and never making the necessary moves
to accomplish what needs doing.
If you are not being challenged in your
daily life by your work or your living situation, then
maybe it is just fear holding you back and you need
to accomplish much more. Fear grips you so that you
are not able to accomplish what you desire and so you
put it off, making excuses not to accomplish the project.
Eventually this can become a habit throughout all your
facets of living. This article will attempt to reinforce
your zest for a challenge, to enable you to take chances,
to overcome rejection and to step up to the plate when
you know you have things that need attention.
Here are some steps to take immediately:
1. Be organized - I know that
this is a hard goal to reach. But, start out small to
accomplish the larger goal. Make a project chart for
your larger jobs and put the smaller projects on your
daily chart. Organize your day with a "TO DO LIST"
and put the items down as rapidly as possible and do
not worry about what order until the page is filled
up. Then go back and rank what is most important and
circle the item, make a star by that item, or otherwise
note their importance. This way you can let the other
items fall below what is most important and you can
get to them later. What you do not get done one day
can be added to the next day's list. I know this can
be a hard habit to get into, but once you do it for
a week or two, you will find it will be hard to get
to sleep without your list made for the next day.
2. Divide Major Projects - If
a project seems overwhelming, then have a major project
list and divide each segment into smaller tasks. For
instance, let's say you want to clean out the garage.
(At my house, that is a MAJOR project!) On Monday, you
can go through the stuff that looks like it should be
going to Goodwill and box that up. Tuesday, you can
do an easy chore of taking it to Goodwill. Wednesday,
you can arrange all like items in separate piles. For
instance, yard tools, lawn furniture, sports equipment,
household tools like step ladders, tool cabinets, brooms
and mops, things of that nature. On Thursday, you can
map out how much room to allow for each category because
maybe you have too much lawn furniture based on the
space you have or maybe you want to devote more space
to lawn furniture and less to sports equipment. Whatever
your lifestyle is, this is the way to organize it within
the garage area. On Saturday, move everything that you
plan to keep out of the garage and clean the shelves
and floors and windows. Then put it all back and arrange
neatly based on the space sketch you have. On Sunday,
enjoy having a place to park the car, finally. It is
all a matter of doing little bits of associated action
and keep moving to the final goal.
3. Just get started - When you
find yourself making excuses and putting things off,
then you know that you are letting yourself go down
the road to being a prisoner of the demon called procrastination.
Just do not let yourself provide excuses. Start with
your easiest task and proceed from there. You will have
a greater sense of accomplishment when you make small
insteps to the greater project than if you do nothing
at all.
4. Outside help - Enlist outside
help if you find it necessary to finish a project. There
is nothing wrong with having help, whether you have
to hire outside help or whether you encourage your family
members to help on some projects. The idea is to make
a goal sheet and keep on the projects you know are needed
around your place and pick a start date so everyone
knows how to schedule their time to be involved. A family
that cleans together keeps the place cleaner for the
next time!
5. Reward Yourself - Finally,
reward yourself and your crew when you finish a project.
Getting a job done has taken a lot of effort, and you
need to be good to yourself for fighting the procrastination
demon. There is a wonderful feeling which comes over
us when we know we have done a good job and can see
the fruits of our labor. That is how the world works.
As it has been said, this is a kill and eat world. You
have to know how to make yourself set goals, work through
the human desire to put things off, and finally to feel
the sense of accomplishment and reward with completion
of a project.
Ok, now, get out those pens and papers
and take a mental trip across your home, your business
life, and your personal or religious life. What needs
to change? How soon? Will you take my advice and banish
the procrastination demon and finally feel the reward
for accomplishment that you may have been lacking recently?
And make no mistake, the procrastination demon can come
on you at any time, in varying degrees, and you must
take a stand and banish the demon with whatever steps
you feel necessary. Do not put off having the things
you want in life because you procrastinate. Give yourself
the satisfaction of accomplishing the things you need
and doing them within your goal period.
It is now or never - Get up and JUST
START!
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