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Or Maybe You’d Like to Play…

PattiAnn reminded us yesterday that alternating work with relaxation can actually make us more productive – and that a little struggle is a good thing. The WhyDoWork.com forum reminds us once again that challenge and persistence play well in both work and play:
Continue reading » Our week in review: Use it or lose it through deep practice of structured procrastination – or better yet, you deserve a break!

Getting Started vs. Procrastinating

Bowling Green vs. North Callaway, State Sectional
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Tell us about your “success triggers”.  What are some of your chained behavior patterns that sweep you from “getting started” to “into-it” project completion?

Who me? Procrastinate? Nah.

Why is it that sometimes I just find myself stuck avoiding a project and other times I find myself mid-project before I even know I’ve started?  What’s behind procrastination and what can we do to short-circuit it?

I have several important and urgent things I need to do.  (To understand the distinction between important and urgent, see: Yuni library – Urgent vs Important) And apparently they are things I really don’t want to do.  Because here I am up since 5AM and now it’s 3PM, and I’ve found oh-so-many other things to do during that time.  And I’ve not even started on the important/urgent gotta-do things.  What’s going on?

Continue reading » Getting Started vs. Procrastinating

Cup o’ Inspiration

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Take a short break and consider the following:

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

Robert Fulghum

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