Procrastination is the enemy of enthusiasm. Passivity and indifference, apathy and laziness ruin everything conceived, everything energetic. Just as Baron Munchausen pulled himself out of the swamp, and we need to pull ourselves out of the furnace of deferred cases. Unfulfilled tasks accumulate and may one day be covered with ahead. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to kill a procrastinator in yourself.
To make yourself
Perhaps, in the beginning, it will be necessary to force itself to take up business, to act through "do not want", but it will pass very little time and it will be rewarded hundredfold. Here are a few recipes to beat laziness:
1. Make a plan for the day and follow it rigorously, fixing the time of the task.
2. Do what is good for other people every day, not for yourself.
3. explain to at least one person every day that laziness is detrimental to personal development. Over time, you will believe it yourself.
In small doses
Sometimes procrastination is useful but in small doses. For example, when a person needs to rest or change their mind. But when it's a habit to browse aimlessly through pictures on the Internet or watch videos on youtube and takes most of the day, there is a reason to sound the alarm. A pile of deferred cases turns into an avalanche, from which it is impossible to escape in a short time. No avalanche will not help to cope with the mass of problems, which have long been dusting in a long box because of laziness. Consequences - guilt, stress, emotional burnout, poor health.
Professions for enthusiasts
Job subordination is the arrangement of relations within the labor collective. Subordinates are obliged to treat their superiors with respect, and management, in turn, cannot allow themselves to be tyrannical and disdainful. This is the ideal hierarchy. A special link in it is occupied by enthusiasts. People who are always ready to come forward with their own initiative.
An initiative is inappropriate
However, some energetic citizens do not feel when the initiative may be inappropriate. It is important to calculate exactly when to make a rational suggestion. Otherwise, the idea would be lost in the dark. For example, in public service or in the military, the initiative is rarely welcomed. The army is a place where orders are not meditated on, but executed unconditionally. One should also not "stick out" in corporations with clearly defined regulations and service instructions, for example, in a bank. Young employees should look back before showing career zeal: if you break the strictest chain of command, you can lose your position.
At the same time, enthusiasts are welcome in libraries, travel agencies, newspaper and television newsrooms. This quality is noticed when reviewing resumes for the position of restaurateur, sales manager, internet marketer. Such people are encouraged on startup projects. Enthusiasts are needed in the event industry and business promotion. Entrepreneurs should also be proactive, enthusiastic and energetic in their work. Unless it contradicts the partnership agreement.
Secrets of success
"Habit from above is given to us, a substitute for happiness."
- wrote the classic, the sun of Russian poetry. Learning to be happy is not so easy, though it is quite possible. But to acquire the skills of an enthusiast and change life for the better is much easier.
Just tell yourself
Say, "I'll do it now." And get down to business without delay. Whether it's cleaning the desktop, reviewing files or making a bad phone call. Only one task, but it needs to be done right now. You have to do this once a day.
Just ask yourself
Ask myself: "What's the least I can do now?" Favorite advice from business consultants and project managers: Eat elephant with a teaspoon. "Biting off" a huge, grandiose business in a small piece, after a while it is possible to notice with pleasure that it has come to the end. It is necessary to allocate on the least of the total mass of cases from two to five minutes and to give completely to this process. Then, to outline the next step, for the same short period of time. If you want to do more, please, but it shouldn't be a stick job. This is always the case when there is a panic in front of a bunch of cases.
Time thieves
Ask myself: "What's distracting me now?" Time thieves, chronophagias are waiting literally at every turn. We need to find the strength to resist the eaters of precious minutes. Close all pages in the browser. Switch off your mobile phone for an hour. Go to a separate office. This is always the case when attention is dispersed.
Only three actions
Just three simple actions. But if you repeat them regularly and tirelessly consolidate the result, they will become a habit and turn a tired, ordinary man into a real feverish enthusiast.