My first Magazine The Dream Box_E-Magazine_January 2018 | Page 11

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
complete a task at hand. So even if the client or
anyone else hasn’t set a deadline, you will do it now
for every milestone you have set. This way, you will
always know what has to be accomplished every
day and if it’s not accomplished, it will be carried
over to the next day. In order to keep things simple,
the more stringent you are on the deadline, the more
likely you will accomplish it! The more comfort
you seek in your deadlines, the more likely you will
procrastinate more!!! So get strict with yourself,
become your own boss and fix deadlines that are
stringent but achievable. Now get going, fix you have
only 6 more days to get rid of procrastination!
Day 3: Draw a week’s schedule
Now you have the milestones and goals with you,
let’s get into action! Take a paper and prepare the
schedule for the week with the milestones and
deadlines in hand. Leave space to mark the status
every day and remarks. Stick it on your desk so that it
will keep reminding you of the imminent deadlines. It
should boost your desire to accomplish them before
time so that you can enjoy the free time till you need
to start working on the next milestone. This week’s
schedule is already on! y –
Day 4: Get someone to partner
Even if you don’t need a partner to accomplish your
task, get someone who’s strict enough to keep a
check on you on the deadlines. This will make you
accountable to the partner and ensure that you
accomplish it at least to avoid a confrontation! Call
up your best friend who would be your worst critique
to partner!
Day 5: Encounter the Unknown!
Fear can pep up even the laziest person! How do
you build fear then, to your advantage? Chalk down
the repercussions of procrastinating for a year. Did
you realize how bad the situation could be? That
should give you the jitters to kick out procrastination
and start working on the tasks at hand ASAP!
Day 6: Assess Your Work Daily
Unless you look back at every day, initially, and make
notes on how you managed/didn’t on that day’s
target, you won’t be able to understand the pace
and direction in which you are going. To progress
positively, even if slowly, sit down to assess the day’s
work and note down the learnings on the chart. This
will give you a clear idea of what’s going right and
where you need to work better and motivate you to
do better the next day. This will take up some time,
but if you really want to get over procrastination,
you better get doing it. Once you realize that your
progress is on par with your expectations and
deadlines, you can make mental notes instead of
writing them down. By that time, you would get rid
of this niggling bug called procrastination. How did
this day go?
Day – 7: Kickstart and Get Going!
On this day, you will use all the energy and information
you have collected and created over the last 6 days
and start working on
your second milestone.
What
happened
to
your first? Well, your
first target was to stop
procrastinating and you
have already achieved
it! Now you can tick that
out and start working
on the very next task at
hand and get going.
Bye bye procrastination,
welcome productivity!
THE DREAM BOX
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