7 Tips to Help You Become a Master Scheduler
All of us have limited resources: limited energy, limited brainpower, limited willpower, and limited time over the course of one day. When we have multiple activities we’d like to get to in one day, leaving the schedule up to chance is a recipe for having our...
Step of the Day: Get Yourself Organized via the Trello App
There are so many times in life where simplicity seems to be the answer to our most complex problems. One tool I use to keep me on top of my to-do list is the Trello app. I strongly and heartily suggest you download the Trello app immediately. You can use the Trello...
Develop Your Zone of Comfort
There's been a lot written about the importance of pushing past your "comfort zone" in order to do creative work, and to be productive in general. Sometimes that idea helps me, other times it just doesn't feel right for me. I'm not really a Rambo-type of...
What If You Could Expand Your Point of View?
I've recently been making it a habit of spending my hour-long commute listening to audiobooks and podcasts. If you haven't yet tried either or both formats of learning, I highly recommend you do. Not only are you able to sample content and information from a great...
Name Your Fears
In my work as a psychologist, I listen to patients and the fears they harbor. Since I tend to work with Procrastinators, the fears I hear about most frequently go like this: fear of making mistakes: we worry about doing something the wrong way fear of being awkward:...
On Strengthening Your Capacity to Trust
Procrastinators are known to have problems with getting work done. I wonder, often, if there is something more to Procrastination other than the actual work. In my experience working with clients who are trying to recover from chronic Procrastination, the root of...
Why
One of the most useful techniques I learned while training to be a psychologist was to avoid starting questions with “why” when addressing my patients. You ask, “Why why?” It is a great, easy way to start off a question or conversation, and it is very direct. It...
Don't Insist On Clarity
Procrastinators are great at telling themselves what to do and what not to do. Unfortunately, many of those directions are rooted in a need for total clarity. Procrastinators tend not to act if there is an absence of clarity. In case I’m not making sense yet, here...
Step of the Day: Make a Move You Can Squeeze in Today
Over the course of a single day, we are involved in several different types of conversations. As a Procrastinator, you may have difficulty with a particular type of conversation, or, you may have difficulty starting any type of conversation. I thought it might be...
5 Ways to Get Moving When You are Really Stuck
Lately, I seem to be feeling stuck every day. Whether it’s an e-mail I don’t want to reply to or an uncomfortable interpersonal dynamic I don’t want to address, it seems I am in a bad run kind of way. There are so many reasons we can get really stuck. So stuck that:...
The 30/30 App: A Free Tool to Boost Your Focus and Productivity
The 30/30 App I have been very excited to share my love for the 30/30 app for some time. I have been busy telling the people in my off-line life about it first. Now, it's time for me to tell you about it. How the 30/30 app works: First of all, this app is...
Techniques to Try: Finding Time
One of the most useful techniques I have ever learned to beat Procrastination is to find time where it might otherwise have been lost. Over the years, I have been amazed at the power this one technique has. Jane Burka and Lenore Yuen, authors of Procrastination: Why...
Breaking Free from Clutter: A Conversation with Diane Elkins of PositiveWorkspace.com
Clutter is a topic of endless fascination for me. Perhaps that's because I seem to be constantly staring at it. I have spent the better part of many, many years trying to get a handle on my clutter problem, as I know deep inside my clutter-burdened heart there is a...
What are the Key Elements in Procrastination Coaching?
I have always found it curious that there are so remarkably few resources for those of us who Procrastinate. Perhaps the biggest reason this is so surprising to me is because so many of us suffer from this same affliction of delay, avoidance, and distress in the face...
8 Things that are Standing in the Way of Lasting Change
I'm really pleased to introduce this guest post by my new friend and kindred spirit, Susaye Rattigan. I discovered her ultra-informative post on LifeHack -- 25 Incredibly Useful Websites Every Entrepreneur Should Bookmark -- and then found another post by her on...
On Disappointment (and a little bit of Alicia Florrick)
Disappointment. What a thoroughly nasty topic. We can feel disappointed when: we let ourselves down we eat or drink too much we watch too much Netflix or Amazon Prime (I just discovered what binge watching feels like) we let other people down we experience loss our...