Procrastination

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Procrastination

• Curing yourself of the "yeah, buts.."

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Workshop Goals

• Learning to say NO!
• Biological prime time
• The yeah, buts
• Remedies

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Learn to say NO!

• Believe that you and your priorities are
  important!

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Biological Prime Time

• When are or can you be most productive during the
  day?

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Yeah, butscan cause

• wasted time.
• missed opportunities.
• poor performance.
• Increased stress.

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Procrastination

• List 3 of your best reasons for not doing the
  right thing.
• Share these with someone near you.
• Your Procrastination Rating

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Procrastination Its Roots

• Crooked thinking
• perfectionism
• feelings of inadequacy
• fear of discomfort
• Behavioral patterns
• good and bad habits become ingrained reinforced
  over time with enough repetition.

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Procrastination Its Remedies

• Self-talk
• make 2 columns of responses
• Column I (excuses)
• Column II (realistic thoughts challenging each
  excuse
• self-motivating statements
• the sooner I get this done, the sooner I can

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Remedies cont.

• Dont catastrophe
• dont think about failing
• dont should on yourself
• dont self- deprecateit leads to lack of
  action and defeat.
• Develop clear, achievable goals
• take small bites out of a big project

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Remedies cont.

• Set things in proper perspective and prioritize.
• Get organized!
• Have things ready that you will need.
• Confront yourself with the challenge
• Remind yourself of the commitment and timeline
• notes, post-ems
• GET IN YOUR OWN FACE!!!

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Remedies cont.

• Plan to reward yourself!!!
• Treat yourself when its done
• Have a friend/partner treat youthats even
  better!
• See all the opportunities you have for DOING IT
  ON TIME!!!