About to complete my annual tax return; procrastination is a luxurious feeling, bathed in the glow of avoiding that which you know you should do, but finding many other wonderful things to do instead! Write to friends, update your iPhone, make another cup of tea, check your email, wrap a present, post that thing on Ebay you were going to sell in the Summer! It's amazing what you can get done when you procrastinate!
Note to self: stop with the exclamation marks, it makes you look like one of your Year 6 students.
Oh yeah? Whaddayouknow? At least I check my speling and use paragraphs!
There you go again!
Well you're doing it now!
Agh.. okay calm down and get back on track.
Which was...procrastinating!!!
Now flip the coin: The key to overcoming procrastination is to write a blog about it...no,no, no that's not right, erm aah yes! (sic) (what does sic mean?) the key to overcoming procrastination IS...copy someone who doesn't!
Hoorah!
Who?
Someone highly effective, how about Stephen Covey? In his work on "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" Covey describes how you prioritise tasks using a simple table:
The key is to focus on the top right quadrant, after you have cleared your top lefts. This will take time and effort, but when you get the hang of it you end up doing less panicking and stressing in top left and more quality work in top right. I currently am right in there, working top right on my blog.
Now having shared, I will dabble in a little bottom right before returning to my top left! In other words I will sign off now, make another cup of tea and get on with my tax return.
I shall leave you with a moment of peace and reflection captured earlier this week.
God Bless You and keep learning.
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