The Simple 5-Step Plan to Avoid Distractions
We live in the era of distractions. There is no doubt about this. The number of distractions we face each day seems endless. When we get mired in the larger web of distractions, including the internet, busywork, errands, e-mail, and shopping, we can lose sight of the...
9 Communication Strategies for Peak Productivity at Work
In our efforts to be productive, sometimes we cut corners, thinking if we can just push through to the end of the project we’re working on, everything will be okay. Oftentimes, we cut out important communication steps from our work routine, just to save a few minutes...
7 Ways to Stop Anxiety from Blocking Your Productivity
One of the key strategies I teach to help people improve their productivity and to fight their anxiety is this: SEPARATE YOUR FEELINGS FROM YOUR WORK AS BEST AS YOU CAN. This is not to say that we should not care about our work. It's that we should not care so much...
6 Simple Steps to Resolve Problems Quickly [+ a Questionnaire to Get You Started]
What unresolved problems do you have in your life right now? How much distress are you under because of them? Let's find a way out and forward. Procrastinators tend to sit on piles of problems. Unfinished projects, undelivered mail, ideas unfulfilled. One way to...
7 Techniques to Save YouTime and to Keep You Organized
How do we deal with the seeming onslaught of to-do's? How do we prevent ourselves from falling into the same old time-wasting traps? Sometimes it can feel like we might never get caught up, and indeed, our lives may be so full that we may never get caught up....
What Can Minimalism Offer to Procrastinators?
Why all the fuss about Minimalism lately? How might it be relevant to you in your attempts to recover from Procrastination? My plan today is: to describe some of my own history with Minimalism and how it enabled me to embrace Procrastination recovery; to share...
Try This 5-Point Technique to Conquer Your Fear of Moving Forward
When I work with clients, I hear about a lot of fears. Those fears never scare me. You know why? Because I have no idea whether those fears will become real or not. Please remember me telling you "I have no idea" the next time you think of asking me about what...
20 Simple Strategies to Stop Your Procrastination [+ a Free Download]
My goal today is to be simple. Simple tends to get things done, I think. Procrastination operates by making things more complicated: Instead of dealing with just our present-moment tasks, we have to deal with the ones we are behind on too. Our minds become...
7 Ways to Save Time across Your Day
When people ask me "How do you teach people how to recover from Procrastination?" my typical response has been "Step by step." I think that response is the most accurate one I can come up with. Everyone has a different path of recovery to travel, but each person...
2 Ways to Make Starting Easier That Have Nothing to Do With Motivation
The following post is brought to you by my new friend, Shaun Flanders of Zero to Habit. Shaun kindly reached out to me after I made a comment on someone else's site, and that sparked a great, mutually-supportive blogger relationship. I hope you'll take a moment to...
5 Areas that Procrastinators Have All Wrong
"What a waste." What kind of feelings did you just have reading the phrase "What a waste?" Did you feel guilty? Did you feel ashamed? Did the phrase sound really familiar? I grew up being pretty conscious of not wasting things, like food and material items....
Why Do Procrastinators Suffer?
I hesitated to use the word "suffer" in the title for fear of turning everyone who might read this post away. However, I think it is important for me to address ALL issues relevant to Procrastinators and not just the cute ones. In my experience, Procrastinators,...
One Quirky Thing about Procrastinators
I have been wanting to write this post for years. You see, every time I meet a Procrastinator in my office (or on a coaching call), I spend the first session getting to know my new client by interviewing them about their personal history and their current...
8 End-of-Year Maneuvers for Procrastinators
I don't know about you, but the end of the year has me cleaning. As in wiping, dusting, tossing, and fixing up my surroundings at home and at work. It's a way to admit to myself that I get a bit stymied by the thought of the year ending. It's also a way to keep...
7 Ways to Get More Comfortable Taking More Risks
Procrastination is a very elaborate way to prevent ourselves from taking risks. We get trapped in our fearful thinking. We obsess about everything that could go wrong and everything that already is wrong. We imagine how humiliated we might end up feeling. We decide...
Let's Try to Avoid the Tendency to Think SMALL
As a psychologist, I'm able to see patterns in the types of topics my patients talk about. They often resemble what I see within my own life, but since I'm intently focused when I'm working, I tend to see these types of patterns more clearly when I'm at work. One...
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