How to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time.
This blog is heavily inspired from Brian Tracy’s Eat that frog book.
These are something i tried that show great result.I recommend you all to try it once to get more done in less time.
Clarity is important:
Before you determine your frog and get on with the job eating it,you want to decide exactly what you want to achieve in your life.
Here frogs are referred to task or your undone work.
The first rule of eating frog is :
If you have to eat two frogs,eat ugliest one first.Similarly,if you have two or more undone works do the most hard and important task first.
The second rule of frog eating is:
If you have to eat a live frog at all,it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for very long.Similarly,don’t think about doing your task much just do it and once you keep doing it keep it.
for this reason, Your ability to select your most important task at each moment,and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well,will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other skill you can develop.
Why do we procrastinate?
The major reason for procrastination and lack of motivation is vagueness,confusion and fuzzy-mindedness about what are you trying to do and in what order and for what reason.you must avoid this common condition.Many people say that they work better under the pressure of deadlines.Unfortunately,this is seldom true.
Under the pressure of deadlines,often self created through procrastination,people suffer greater stress,make more mistakes,and have to redo more tasks than under any condition.thus stop procrastinating.you can avoid the procrastinating by following ways.
Rule:There will be never enough time to do everything you have to do.
How to avoid Procrastinating:
There is powerful formula for setting and achieving goals that you can use for the rest of you life.It consists of seven steps.
1.Step One :Decide Exactly what you want.i.e clarity is important.
2.Step Two:write it down think on paper.
The power of written goals:Clear written goals have a wonderful effect on you thinking.They motivate you and galvanize you into action.They stimulate your creativity,release your energy,and help you overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.On the other hand a goal or objective which is not written is merely a fantasy or a wish.It has no energy behind it.Unwritten goals lead to confusion,vagueness,misdirection and numerous mistakes.
3. Step Three: set deadline on your goal.
A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency.It has no real beginning and end.
4. Step four : Make a list of everything you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your goal.
5.Step five:Organize the list into a plan.List all task in order they need to be done.
Take a clean sheet of paper and make list of ten goals you want to accomplish in the next year.Write your goals as though a year has already passed and they are now a reality.
Review your list of ten goals and select the one goal that if you achieved it ,would have the greatest positive impact.Use the ABCDE rule to organize the rule.We will discuss the ABCDE rule in later part of this blog.
6 . Step six : Take action on your plan immediately.The quality of action orientation stands out as the most observable and consistent behaviour they demonstrate in everything they do.
7. Step Seven:Resolve to do something every single day that moves you toward your major goal.
How to get more done in less time:
Use the ABCDE method :this is one of the most powerful method to get more done in less time.
Here’s how it works:You start with a list of everything you have to do for the coming day.Think on paper.List ten activities that you want to do it in a day to accomplish your goal.
You then place A,B,C,D or E next to each item on your list before you begin the first task.
An ‘A’ item is defined as something that is very important,something that you must do.This is a task that will have serious positive or negative consequences if you do it or fail to do it.If you have more than ‘A’ task,you prioritize these tasks by writing ‘A-1' , ‘A-2’ , ‘A-3’, and so on in front of each item.Your A-1 task is biggest,hardest and ugliest task.
A ‘B’ task is defined as a task that you should do.But it has only mild consequences.But it is nowhere as important as ‘A’ task.
A ‘C’ task is nice to do task that has no consequences for it whether you do it or not.These sorts of activities have no effect at all on your work life.
A ‘D’ task is something that you can delegate to someone else.The rule is that you should delegate everything that someone else can do so you can free up more time for the ‘A’ task that only you can do.
An ‘E’ task is defined as something that you can eliminate altogether,and it won’t make any real difference.
After you have applied the ABCDE method to your list,you will be completely organized and ready to get more done in less time.
Take action immediately,the key to making this ABCDE method work is for you to now discipline yourself to start immediately on your ‘A’ task and then stay at it until it is complete.
Put the pressure on yourself:
The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the king of person they wish they could be.Only 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision(I am not one of them),we call those people leaders.
To reach your full potential,you must form the habit of putting the pressure on yourself and not someone else come along to do it for you.
All of life is study of attention.where your attention goes your life follows.
so stay focus.
thank you!
