How to cure someday syndrome. Edit Article Edited by Flickety, Krystle, Eric, WikiBunny and 7 others 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. Ad Steps 1Be you. 12Don’t stop at the easy point. Tips Another way to cure the Someday Syndrome is to breathe. 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. If you’re a busy person (and who isn’t these days?) , I’ve compiled some of my favorite time-saving tips — things I use in my daily life that I’ve found to work wonders for freeing up the schedule. Why use these tips? Tips for Work Most of us spend the most time at work, so let’s start there. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Time-saving Computer Tips 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Tips for Home 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. What are your time-saving tips? 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. We’re watching TV or a movie or playing video games or chatting with friends. We’re doing any of the dozens of things we do to avoid constructive effort. We do this because these activities are more enjoyable than work. But probably not. These activities are intentional time wasters; things we do to make the day go faster. It’s easy to make excuses for why it doesn’t matter. Nothing really constructive comes from these activities, but they’re easier than trying to coherently express my thoughts. Wasting time is addictive. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how I spend my time and what it takes to succeed. But realizing this also makes me optimistic. The skill I need to master is the ability to delay gratification.
It isn’t easy. I’m not. How to tackle dreaded tasks. 20 Procrastination Hacks. 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”. This post, for example, was written as a means of putting off a more urgent article that I need to write by the end of today. But by procrastinating on that, I’ve written this, which I hope will be helpful for all procrastinators everywhere — and that means you. Please note that I do not suggest that you do all of these — that’s an overwhelming task that would certainly be pushed back endlessly.
Form a Do It Now habit. Bonus hack: Procrascipline. This website is supported, in part, by affiliate arrangements (usually Amazon). Debate is fine, flaming is not. Overcome Procrastination Once and For All. "The now habit" de Neil Fiore | Recension de Trent Ham. Each Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal productivity or personal development book. During my college years, procrastination was an incredibly large problem for me, and more than once my procrastinating nature really hurt me badly.
Once, in fact, it lowered a course grade from an A to a C, which was a real wake-up call for me. I spent a lot of time thinking about why I procrastinate, and it was largely from there that I started to really look into personal productivity and time management philosophies. Eventually, I came to really reject procrastination, but for me it was more of a subtle thing – it came around slowly, over time. I hadn’t heard of The Now Habit until fairly recently, when it was mentioned to me over conversation by a friend of mine. We were joking about all of the stupid things we’d done in college to postpone working on projects when he mentioned that reading the book and thinking about it a bit had really helped him get around the procrastination problem.