Posts Tagged with "Procrastination"
This Is How My Life Will Change
In this third blogpost in a about being unhappy with the current situation I’m giving you the exact way I’m going to change my life in the course of 1000 hours. In the previous blogpost we identified three main topics that need to be addressed in order to make a significant change. These were; Building [...]
Continue reading...Get your NOW together and Act!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
This blogpost is a follow-up on my last blogpost on which Alan Perlman from over at the 9 to 5 alternative commented: Many people–myself included–understand that there’s a third pillar, but may not know how to attack it. I’d like to hear your thoughts on this. Like, once you recognize the third pillar, once you [...]
Continue reading...The timesuck buster
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Yesterday was another one of those days, having great plans for the day and all kinds of things to do. In short, a productive day. And then the day actually is there, getting up late, procrastinating through lunchtime. Surfing a bit, managing to do one of the many things on my list (formatting and reinstalling [...]
Continue reading...The truth about positivity, stop dreaming!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Once more I look at my mountains and realize that they are tall. I can imagine myself standing on top and being on top of the world. I can dream about it and most of all I can be positive about it. But let’s be honest, does being positive get you up there? Absolutely not! [...]
Continue reading...Paralysis by thought, paralysis by negativity
Sunday, April 12, 2009
People have the great possibility of thought, thought about the past and the future and in this they can predict outcomes of certain undertakings. But thinking about the future has a great downside to it. We overthink, and panic. Soon after the first thoughts on beginning a new business or planning a world trip the [...]
Continue reading...10 ways to get the ball rolling
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
As part of probloggers 31 days to a better blog I’m giving the “list post” a go. Ten ways to get the all rolling or in other words, how to beat procrastination and start doing what you want to do. Some of these tips are in themselves great for procrastinating though as I’ll comment in the [...]
Continue reading...Stand still please, the future will still be there tomorrow
Monday, April 6, 2009
The rat race is all around us. Running around, always looking at the horizon or the top of the mountain. It’s totally useless you know? We set goals in our lives, wonderful things we would like to do one day. We read about 4 hour workweeks and think that would be just great. We keep [...]
Continue reading...Is that a mountain?
Friday, April 3, 2009
An odd title for a post perhaps, but how many of us look at mountains every day? The mountains of “should”, “could” and all the other mountains we build when thinking of beginning something. You see a great guitarist play and you think “this is for me, I want to be able to do this [...]
Continue reading...Harder than it seems
Saturday, March 14, 2009
This is only my second post and already I’m having trouble to write. It’s not that there isn’t enough to write on, it’s that there is so much. Where to begin. (pun intended) This is a problem most bloggers run in to according to several writes (Darren Rowse and Leo Babauta). You need to find [...]
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