Perspectives I Beneath the Surface |
Procrastination , cont . |
Now I am solving some of my procrastination issues by hiring the right people . If they are good employees I have to get things done so they can do their part to help me out . So I hire people who excel in abilities that I don ’ t have . We all sort of know what we aren ’ t good at ... if you are an introvert , then hire an extrovert who can handle sales and talking . The tasks now are getting physical space to look better and retooling the Website and stationery in font and colors . I am not good at doing all of that so I am going to talk to my Website company and they will review it and come back to me with solutions .
What happens to me with procrastination is that I am so interested in what is next with my gallery that I procrastinate at collecting on old bills .
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Procrastination is not my worst disease . There are galleries that have closed because owners were procrastinators or poor business people , or because it is a hard business to be a clay gallery . I don ’ t waver and I chose a path and I have stayed on it . I stick with artists I like . Here is where I really procrastinate : my own life . I have talked about it with older successful people , and they all say they wished they had lived more and had more fun .”
Now here is the Website where you can learn about Jerry Seinfeld ’ s technique to solve procrastination : http :// lifehacker . com / 281626 / jerryseinfelds-productivity-secret It ’ s fun and worth reading . If you want more details , see http :// lifehacker . com / 5886128 / howseinfelds-productivity-secret-fixed-myprocrastination-problem
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Following is a summary of solutions I ’ ve compiled from many different Websites , with my own comments ( in parentheses ). Much of this information is derived from : fluentbrain . com / blog / 13-effectivesolutions-to-procrastination /
✔ 1 . Start with the “ Small Edible Chunks ” theory .
Strong and repeated advice says to not look at the huge job and tackle it ; instead , break it down into edible , doable , small steps . If you do one small step , it helps you to do another .
Tim Pychyl of Carleton University in Ottawa , Canada , who wrote The Procrastinator ’ s Digest , says ,
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