November 2004 Anticrastination Tip Sheet
What's the opposite of Procrastination?
THE ANTICRASTINATION TIP SHEET
An Idea and Tip Sheet to Blast Away the
Procrastination Habit
From Rita Emmett, Recovering Procrastinator
Author of THE PROCRASTINATOR'S HANDBOOK
& THE PROCRASTINATING CHILD
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Late Breaking News
Rita's third book, THE CLUTTER-BUSTING HANDBOOK will be published
in the US next April, 2005, and her publisher, Walker and Co., has
ALREADY sold it to Canada and Turkey, and just yesterday it was also
sold to Sweden and France. Rita is over the moon with delight. She says,
"IF you have a book in your heart, you've GOTTA' write it.
This is so much fun."
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Quote for November
You will never FIND time for anything. If you want time, you must MAKE
it.
--- Charles Buxton
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Message for November
EMMETT'S LAW: The Dread of Doing a Job Uses Up More Time and Energy
Thank Doing the Job Itself. Isn't that true?
How much time, energy, anxiety, guilt and exhaustion have you ever spent
agonizing about something you've put off for weeks or even months, and
when you finally did it, it took you only 23 minutes. Don't you just
want to smack yourself in the head & say "Why
did I procrastinate so long about that?"
And while you were putting it off, that dread was hanging over your head
like a dark cloud.
Have you ever - just as you're falling asleep at night - thought to
yourself "Oh man, I still haven't made that phone call" or you think, "I
STILL have that huge pile of paper clutter go sort through because I've
GOT to find that information" and your stomach ties up in knots, your
heart starts to pound.
That dread can just suck the energy out of your bones. I think that
dreading a job leaves us as tired as if we were digging a ditch. If
you're putting off something important and you CANNOT think of a reason
to DO IT NOW, remember the power of the dread that comes with
procrastination. It can make you miserable, anxious, guilty, exhausted
and sick.
And the opposite is true, too, isn't it? Have you ever finally done
something that you've been putting off for ages? And when it's complete,
don't you want to dance the dance of joy? You get so much energy you
just want to run around the block and shout to the
world what you've just finished. It's a great feeling, a sensational
one. Think of all this the next time you know you need to do something
NOW but you start to talk yourself into putting it off till later. Do
you really want to spend time with that cloud of dread hanging over your
head?
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Rita Emmett - Recovering Procrastinator
Author of THE PROCRASTINATOR'S HANDBOOK
and
THE PROCRASTINATING CHILD: A HANDBOOK FOR ADULTS
TO HELP CHILDREN STOP PUTTING THINGS OFF
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So much time, so little to do. Scratch that, reverse it!
--- Willie Wonka
