It may be hard for some of us who are naturally organized and prompt to understand why others put off doing something or even deciding to do something until certain situations force them into action. The main reason people procrastinate like this is because they can’t appreciate the value in finishing a task right away…

Many of us encounter our procrastinator self in our life, Psychology Today discusses about there are ten things that you should know when procrastination overtake your productivity. These will help you identify if you are a regular procrastinator. This is an interesting one: … Procrastination is not a problem of time management or of planning. Procrastinators…

It is possible to find extra time in your day simply by reorganizing the way in which you approach the tasks that fall within your responsibility. Take a look at each of the following areas of your working life and see where you can make improvements which will allow you to put more time…

Every weekday, my reoccurring wish is not suffer through another traffic jam. Every two weeks, there is an urge to be independent and to control my own destiny. Every month jealousy rages when the media celebrates another start-up company with an un-extraordinary idea. And every year there is a realization…time is slipping…

A good part of the skill of living is the willingness to let things go without regret. Choose what seems best, acknowledge what you may have to give up to obtain it, and get on with your life. Don’t look back. Not now, not ever.

In business world, many people do not need to manage or organise their tasks already. Their manager or project manager assigned specific tasks with specific deadlines for them to meet. Many people works effectively in this environment – they produce their work on time with high quality. However this environment may make them to rely…

There is a good piece of article on how to be productive. Productivity is usually measured by what sort of things one is working on, and it is tightly coupled with how do you spend your time. Aaron, in the article HOWTO: Be more productive talks about some good topics on productivity, including how to…

Recently, Paul Graham talks about procrastination. I am a big fan of Paul’s writings, and this one opens a new meaning of procrastination. He said no matter what you work on, you’re not working on something else – you are procrastinating something. He classifies there are three procrastinations: do nothing; do something less important; and…

When there is a task where you have to wait on someone else for input or a task depends on something that is owned by other teams, sometimes it is hard to handle. Alistair has developed a system and a technique to handle those blocked tasks. First he describes how to create a three columns system…

People put their own futures on hold all the time. How to they do it? By setting conditions that have to be met before they can move on.

Everyone procrastinates at some time in their life. As a self employed writer, I am certainly guilty as charged. I have spent many evenings cleaning the kitchen or folding the laundry instead of working on projects with looming deadlines. Through experience I have learned that there are many reason why I, and…

Don’t let pressure and overwork encourage you to hurry past parts of your life. Whether it’s your children’s early life, whole segments of your marriage, or maybe the last active years of loved parents, they are swiftly past and gone beyond recall. Regret comes too late to save them.

David Greenspan has written a plugin for Konfabulator which uses the idea of Merlin’s (10+2)*5 Procrastination hack. This timer will help you keep track to work for 10 minutes, and then break for 2 mins, repeat for 5 times for an hour. … Can’t stop procrastinating? Force yourself to work for 10 minutes, then…

One of the great bloggers, Dwayne Melancon has suggested a good technique to add fuel to your mind and help to achieve any difficult tasks. He suggested to make a belief in your mind which you must complete a set of tasks no matter what. For instance, make yourself believe that you will die if…

Over Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching, Rosa has a good new toy for killing procrastination – Self-Inking Date Stamper. How does this work? When she handles a paper of paper (no matter if you are collecting, processing reviewing, delegating), she stamps it with the date stamper. With the date on the paper, when she…