A Secret to Find Time When You’re Overwhelmed

“I have so much to do, I just can’t do everything. I don’t even know where to start.” Sound familiar? Most people occasionally battle the habit of PROCRASTINATION -- putting off something you really want or need to do. And in spite of how terrific you are at setting goals, procrastination can sabotage your personal and professional life.

Have you ever said “I’ll clean the garage when I have a whole Saturday free.” or “I’ll tackle that paper clutter on my desk when I have an uninterrupted chunk of time.”? But we’ll NEVER have a whole free Saturday or uninterrupted chunk of time, will we?

If you wait until you GET the time to do something, it will never happen. Nobody gives us time. (“Here’s a big ol’ bucket of time for you.”) We’ve got to MAKE time for those things you want and need to do.

Here are five steps to take the STING out of feeling overwhelmed, and together they form a simple yet powerful strategy to help you make time for what is important to you.

S – Select just one thing to do.
T – Time yourself. Set the kitchen timer for one hour and go for it
I – Ignore everything else while the timer is ticking
N – No breaks until your hour is up.
G – Give yourself a reward when the timer dings.

When your hour is up and you give yourself that reward, you might find that what you’ve been putting off for months took you only 23 minutes to accomplish.

Or if it’s a giant task, often the momentum is there and you want to continue. And you’ll have discovered one of the secrets of blasting away the procrastination habit: you didn’t put off the whole project, you simply put off getting started.

Please use this bio:

Rita Emmett, author of The Procrastinator’s Handbook, is a professional speaker who presents Keynotes and Seminars nationwide. She can be reached at 847-699-9950 and email is Rita@RitaEmmett.com.

To subscribe to her free monthly Anticrastination Tip sheet with quick short tips & ideas to help break the procrastination habit, go to the first page of her website RitaEmmett.com

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