Get your Life back on Track with 101 Free Success Tips

When a writer has writer’s block the only solution, as strange as it seems, is to write. So he must start writing anything a letter to a friend or relation, a shopping list, just anything. As soon as he writes a good phrase or sentence his enthusiasm and self-confidence will rise almost without him realizing it.

When I’m in a low energy and lethargic state I know I have to get any thing done, organized or sorted out. I have to pick tasks which are easily achievable. As soon as I see a bit of my desk reappear I get my first boost of Serotonin . I can then venture to get something else done, get some phone calls out of the way, write a few brief letters, pay a few bills. I call this bootstrapping. Many of the jobs we are dreading turn out to be less difficult than we thought but getting them out of the way is a real pleasure. Of course ONE DAY I will start on my most important task and get a massive boost from knowing that I’ve finally mastered myself but that’s some time away!

I’ve always known that it’s best if important things have their own place, passports, tools and so on. What I’ve only recently realised is that really everything should have an exact place, I mean not just on a particular shelf but a precise spot on that shelf. It may seem rather boorish to be so clinical but the alternative is wasted time searching with attendant frustration. I have probably wasted months of my life looking for keys, erasers, flashlights, sports equipment, worse I have probably abandoned projects or ventures simply because I couldn’t find a vital document.

Can you pass the following test? Can you get up now and find your keys, wallet, camera, flashlight and passport with your eyes SHUT?

The other advantage of things having their own exact place is that you will realize much more quickly that an item has gone missing.

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How many people are going into next year with no plan at all? Perhaps the majority , New Year’s Resolutions are a first step but try and make sure you pick ones which will motivate you and that you are likely to keep. Get some great tips by clicking here.

New Year’s Resolutions should be part of your Year’s Plan. It’s never too early to choose your resolutions.

Get your year off to a great start with the right New Year’s Resolutions. Like many I formerly made resolutions at the last minute if at all and had probably forgotten them by the end of January. But shouldn’t we head into the New Year with a plan rather than be like ships without a rudder? The following lens discusses how to choose realistic new year’s resolutions and how to stick to them. There are will also be Funny New Year’s Resolutions and examples of New Year’s Resolutions and more.

Learn more about choosing and keeping your resolutions here

As you may know I am very enthusiastic about Squidoo anyway I was desperate to think of an idea for a new lens when I hit upon the idea of trying to decide how I’d thought of my existing lens. I was astonished to find that I didn’t know , I’d had ideas my subconsciously. I decided I wanted to try and capture the moment an idea appeared , determined what had seeded the idea and finally learn how to create more and better ideas, in short to become an ideas factory! I created this blog to map my journey to the brilliant idea. But my actual ideas website is here at Creating More Brilliant Ideas and now it is up for an award Best Potential Giant Squid please vote for it here

When your memory reminds you to need to phone someone, put a document in your briefcase for tomorrow, don’t just think “I must do that later” because unfortunately your subconscious tends to think it’s done it’s job and may not bother to remind you a second time! I always imagine that if you don’t act immediately that your subconscious sulks and thinks well I did warn him but he didn’t seem to think it important.  This virtually obliges us to deal with things immediately and then, if it is not convenient/possible to complete the task there and then you must all the same take an action, eg diary it, create a post-it note etc.
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

We must always seek to find better quicker ways to do things. The most precious resource of all is TIME,
in order to succeed we have to try to get leverage in every thing we do.

How do we get leverage?

• We can train people to do our work if we have a skill
• We can learn to have the courage to delegate (trust your co-workers)
• If we are a writer we can turn a text into a blog, into an ezine article or an audio-recording
• We can invest in the right equipment and training

Many who could have been/should have been successful simply exhausted themselves  trying to do everything themselves. Rather we should EXHAUST ourselves trying to think of EASIER,QUICKER,MORE EFFICIENT ways to get things DONE. There is no longer any credit in just being a work donkey we should rather think like Tom Sawyer who gets people to pay him for painting Tom’s own fence!!

The best ever Time Management Tool which is also simple to use is ACTION ENFORCER

Schedule your most important Interview last, being interviewed gets easier the more you do it, because you get used to the questions and thus can give more polished answers. Read your CV carefully (it is easy to forget what you put in it if you wrote it just weeks ago) so you will not be surprised if you get a question on whatever is in it. Make sure that there are absolutely no spelling mistakes/grammatical faults (use Word Spell check), get a friend to proof read it. If your important interview is your only interview , then get a friend/colleague to give you a practice interview

Procrastination is a terrible problem but one of the reasons we Procrastinate is because we don’t get our daily tasks and to-do lists completed rapidly enough, so we NEVER get to the Important but not Immediately Urgent Tasks.

This is usually due to Frittering our time away, how long we take to start doing serious work when we sit down at our desk, how usefully we use odd lumps of spare time waiting for a meeting etc. We would be horrified if all the time we frittered away could be added up. If you find yourself doing your best work doing free overtime when most have left then this is a sign you frittered your normal working hours away.

Conquer Frittering and you’ll find you’ve Conquered Procrastination at the same time. I’ve made a lot of progress since I’ve been using Action Enforcer this is the first Time Management Program which does it for me.

So remember : You Procrastinate because you Fritter your Core Working Time Away, Beat Frittering and You’ll Conquer Procrastination without even realizing  it!

I honestly personally use and recommend  Action Enforcer