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How to cure someday syndrome
Someday Syndrome: not doing what you want to because you don’t know what it is, probably because you’re procrastinating about it, or because you have too much stuff getting in your way. Everyone suffers from Someday Syndrome at some point in their lives, often catching it repeatedly. You probably have something similar going on in your life – a project, a task, a goal – that you just haven’t got around to doing yet, right? It would be easy to quote Nike and say: Just Do It, but if it were that simple Someday Syndrome wouldn’t exist. Here are some key ways to cure Someday Syndrome so that you don’t need to suffer through a cure.
How to save time for busy people
Your lives are always busy, I’m sure, but the holidays always seem to add even more craziness to everyone’s schedule. Christmas parties with family, friends and co-workers, gift shopping, decorating, Christmas pageants, caroling, bell-ringing, snow shoveling (unless you live on Guam like I do), making cookies, baking turkeys, and all the rest. It’s enough to make you want to give up! But it doesn’t have to be overwhelming.The software development world has the concept of the antipattern – a code structure that one commonly finds in failing software. Antipatterns are worth studying because they help us learn from our mistakes (or, even better, from other people’s mistakes). But antipatterns are not confined to software alone. Stare at any activity deeply enough and you’ll find that some people are more successful with it than others. Take the humble task list , for instance, much beloved of web workers.
4 task list antipatterns
Can you sacrifice temporary pleasure for longterm goals?
We know what we need to do to reach our goals. But we still aren’t doing it. We’re checking our email 50 times a day. We’re browsing the web without any particular purpose.
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How to tackle dreaded tasks
This post was written by Leo Babauta of ZenHabits.net I’m going to take a wild leap and suggest that procrastination is a problem that plagues even the best of us. Yes, even Scott Young must procrastinate once in awhile. I surely do. But even though I procrastinate, I find ways to get a lot done . I am the epitome of what Scott calls “productively lazy” .
20 Procrastination Hacks
Overcome Procrastination Once and For All
Each of these can be reduced down to the pleasure/pain principle which says that we do things to gain pleasure and to avoid pain. What follows is a method to overcome procrastination on the things that matter and to jettison excess baggage in your to-do list that only serves to weigh you down. Method to Overcome Procrastination
