Success Seminar 2 The Time of Your Life

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Success Seminar 2 The Time of Your Life

• Presented By
• David Margolian
• The Acadia Centre for
  Small Business and Entrepreneurship

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Why We Are Here

• By the end of the seminar you will be able to
• Identify your procrastination style and use it
  to your advantage.
• Identify your motivational triggers and use
  them to get things done!!!
• Improve your ability to prioritize study tasks
  and assignments.

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The Entrepreneurial Cycle
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Why Act Entrepreneurially?

• 90 of businesses and organizations in Canada
  have fewer than 20 employees.
• Employers want Problemsolvers.
• Employers want Pro-active employees.
• Leverage your talents and capabilities.

Make informed decisions and
accept responsibility for them
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Activity

• My Task List

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Discussion

• Why do we procrastinate?

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Doubter

• Questions their own ability
• Perfectionists
• Stew vs. do
• Fears failure

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Worrier

• Obsesses over the reactions of others
• Invents problems to avoid tackling tasks
• Pessimistic outlook

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Stealth

• Outwardly competent
• Dislike
• Repetition
• The mundane
• Waiting

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Chronic

• Has little time sense
• Ignores details
• Avoids thinking of steps
• Dislikes their program of study or job (complains
  a lot)

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Procrastination Types
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Strategies for Doubters

• Success orient projects
• Learn to say No
• Impress yourself, not others

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Strategies for Worriers

• Make contingency plans
• Focus on solutions, not problems

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Strategies for Stealths

• Focus on the Big picture
• Look to the end result
• Positive
• Negative

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Strategies for Chronics

• Be direct with yourself
• Why are you here? (Job, University, etc.)
• What do you really want to do?
• Make your own decisions

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What Motivates People?

• Fear
• Money
• Interests
• Job satisfaction

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Manage Your Motivation

• Pursue interests
• Break the task into smaller steps
• Promise yourself a reward upon completion
• Work at your best times
• Focus on
• What you like about the task
• The end result

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Prioritize Your Life

• Prioritize Tasks
• URGENT
• IMPORTANT
• FLEXIBLE
• Simplify your desk calendar

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Homework

• For your Reflection
• Identify your procrastination style.
• Identify two motivational triggers.
• Identify your most urgent academic priority and
  what you will do about it.

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Where to Get More Information

• www.acsbe.com
• Covey, Stephen R. (1989). The Seven Habits of
  Highly Effective People Restoring the Character
  Ethic. New York, NY Simon and Schuster.