procrastination
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. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
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.
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.
The Happiness Project blog offers six tips for powering through procrastination to accomplish dreaded tasks. A sampling: Do it first thing in the morning. If you're dreading doing something, you're going to be able to think of more creative excuses as the day goes along. One of my Twelve Commandments is "Do it now."
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
Why We Procrastinate Before we can solve the problem of procrastination we must understand why we do it. There are a few basic reasons:
