OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION

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OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION

• Presented by Katherine Ward

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Susan Fowler WoodringConsultant, Speaker,
Trainer, and Author
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Five Questions for You to Consider

1. When do you procrastinate at school or work? What
   kinds of tasks?
2. When do you procrastinate in other areas of life?
3. What do you put off at home?
4. What do you put off in personal relationships?
5. What do you put off in your financial life?

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Four Underlying Causes

• Fear of Failure
• Lack of Discipline
• Perfection Paralysis
• Fear of Success

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OVERCOMING FEAR OF FAILURE

• 1. GOALS APPROACH
• SSPECIFIC
• MMEASURABLE
• AACTION ORIENTED
• RREALISTIC
• TTIME-BOUND

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1. INCHWORM TECHNIQUE

• Break tasks on your to-do list down into
  manageable sizes.
• Use smallest task to get started.

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• 3. REWARD SYSTEM
• Some day is not a day of the week.
• Plan reasonable rewards for yourself for
  performing tasks you might ordinarily put off.

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• 4. BEHAVIOR CONTRACT
• Write out a personal contract for yourself or
  work with a friend or coach.

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CONTROLLING LACK OF DISCIPLINE
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TIME

• WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO
• SPEND TIME?
• INVEST TIME?
• WASTE TIME?

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• 21 DAY CARD/JOURNAL
• Set a daily goal for yourself.
• Check off every day that you achieve that goal.

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• URGENCY AND
• IMPORTANCE MATRIX

I. IMPORTANT/ URGENT III. IMPORTANT/NOT URGENT
III. NOT IMPORTANT/ URGENT IV. NOT IMPORTANT/NOT URGENT
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CLASSIFY YOUR TASKS

1. Important and Urgent
2. Important, but Not Urgent
3. Not Important, but Urgent
4. Not Important and Not Urgent

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Copy This Statement

• Every single day, starting immediately, set
  aside a block of prime time to work on something
  important that does not need to be done today.
• Ed Bliss
• Getting Things Done
• (A Quadrant 2 activity)

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• MASTER LIST/DAILY PLAN SYSTEM
• Maintain an annual Master Plan of tasks and
  goals.
• Pencil in the month you will accomplish each.
• Transfer annual tasks and goals to a Daily
  Planner, which you update every 24 hours.

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DEALING WITH PERFECTION PARALYSIS

• Consider the importance of excellence rather than
  perfection.
• Get it down, then get it right.
• Jimmy Colono
• Co-founder of Career Track

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Learn to trust your INTUITION.

1. Make predictions and see how often they are
   correct.
2. Make some decisions quickly. Flip a coin now and
   then!
3. Do nothing for five to ten minutes several times
   a day.

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HOW TO SUCCEED WITHOUT FEAR

• An average performer is goal driven.
• A peak performer is mission driven.
• Charles Garfield
• You can list your goals. What is your mission?

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• MISSION STATEMENT
• Write your personal/professional mission
  statement.
• It should be so important that it will transcend
  your fears.

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• FEARS AND GOALS
• Take just 60 seconds and list the 10 things you
  love most in life.
• Use your 10 Loves List to create goals to work
  through your fears.

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WILL POWERWONT POWER

• Be clear with yourself and others about what you
  will and wont do on the job and in your personal
  life.
• Say NO more often.

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OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION

• What can you use right now?
• What will help you in your job search?
• What will help you on the job?
• What will improve your personal life?
• What will make you a more successful human being?

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Evaluation Questions

• Use
• a. Strongly agree
• b. Agree
• c. Disagree
• d. Strongly disagree
• e. Dont know
• I found the presentation of material easy to
  understand.
• This Advantage session increased my knowledge on
  the subject presented.
• I will be able to use some of the information
  from this Advantage session in the future.
• The presenter was well prepared for this
  advantage session.
• This presentation should be repeated in future
  semesters.