- Put your plans on paper. Spell out your goals and ways to reach them.
- Be Specific. The advice you give yourself must be such that you can put it into practice.
- Break the task down into small pieces so that you can handle them easily.
- Establish checkpoints on your progress as well as rewards.
- Remind yourself of the benefits you expect from your tasks completion.
- Avoid temptations and circumstances that might sidetrack you.
- Recognise your limitations. Dont set unrealistic goals.
- Take Advantage of your own energy peaks!
- Use negative motivation. Remind yourself of the consequences of inaction.
- Keep a time-control budget. Dont let one task take control over others.
- Set Deadlines and hold yourself to them.
- Make an honest distinction between "i cant" and "i dont want to"
- Get Started now. Dont Stall.
- Improve your self persuasion ability. Learn the difference between reasoning and rationalizing.
- Be Optimistic. Your Chances of success will increase.
- Decide how you want to start, what needs to be done first.
- Read, especially litterature related to your situation.
- Use self-signaling devices - notes, signs, cues, reminders.
- Promise yourself rewards.
- Use the stimulation provided by good news to do extra work
- Recognize conflicts and make a choice.
- Give yourself the right to make mistakes. No one is perfect.
- Exercise your sense of humor. Laughter indicates a realistic point of view.
The Leadership Center at Washington State University
2 comments:
Make an honest distinction between "i cant" and "i dont want to"
Give yourself the right to make mistakes. No one is perfect.
Hadol 3al waja3! I needed to read this!
i know what you mean :| i always come back to this when i find myself stuck, i have something else that might be useful and similar to this, will post em =D
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