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Tips For Overcoming Procrastination

Reading blog posts and articles about home – based business can be a wonderful way to get tips and suggestions that can inspire you to start your own business or make changes to a business that you already own and operate. That said, if you find yourself reading the aforementioned blog posts and articles (or anything else, for that matter) in order to avoid doing your work, read the rest of this post and then stop procrastinating and get to work. One of the most dangerous enemies of the home – based professional is procrastination, so it is important that … Continue reading →

Is Procrastination Worth Your Time?

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I’m a procrastinator, I always think things are going to take so long, so I put them off, and off and off. This is probably truer of housekeeping than anything else in my life. Vacuuming takes too long. I’ll do the dishes tomorrow, they’ll take too long tonight. Making the bed takes too long. We pass these habits on to our children as well and before we know it, the house is out of control. In an effort to stop procrastinating I’ve decided to time everything I do. I’m not going to rush through each job, just do it at … Continue reading →

Beating Procrastination: The Once A Day Cleaner

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In the past, I’ve written about my lack of motivation to clean, especially the scrubbing variety of cleaning. I just don’t like it. I’m sure that someone out there does like it, but I don’t know many of those people. Like many, I dislike the process of scrubbing: the procrastinating, the other procrastinating, collecting the equipment, moving everything out of the way, scrubbing, wiping, putting things back where they were. To be honest with myself, it really only takes ten to fifteen minutes to do each of these tasks. It’s just that the procrastinating bit takes longer. Much, much longer. … Continue reading →

Overcoming Procrastination

Do you feel like you can never accomplish what you would like to in your house because you are a procrastinator? Good intentions will get you nowhere. But I can relate. In fact, I have been procrastinating on several projects in the home that I need to tackle. So how can we overcome procrastination? Here are 5 ways that can help stop us from putting things off… First, break down the bigger jobs that you need to tackle. One of my biggest tasks to get done is the basement. We have so much junk. But when I think about the … Continue reading →

Procrastination – Why We Do It

All of us are likely to procrastinate at some time or another. Sometimes there is a reason behind why we drag our feet, such as not liking the task that you keep putting off again and again. Sometimes, though, procrastination happens for no reason at all. You know that this is going on when you find yourself doing something instead of what you know you should be doing yet you cannot come up with any reason why. Today I caught myself tidying up the house instead of sitting down to work after putting my son to bed. Normally, I do … Continue reading →

Procrastination With Special Education Could be Expensive

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The Department of Education in New York could be creating a very expensive problem for itself. Education officials have delayed finding placement for 15,500 kindergarten students who have special needs. This could result in having those students sent to private schools, with the public school system being required to pay for it. The delay is also causing anxiety for the parents of these children. The New York City Department of Education is struggling to figure out where 15,500 kindergarten students who have special needs will attend school in the coming school year. They must find placement for all of these … Continue reading →

On Procrastination III

The last two times I’ve explored procrastination. In the first part I wrote about that peculiar individual who always gets everything done on time but is a chronic procrastinator. They ALWAYS wait until the last minute to do the things they do but ALWAYS get things done. Somehow, though, they know they could do better. The minute after that paper is handed in or that presentation is given they see the flaws, the mistakes, and the areas for improvement. Their procrastination drove them to get things done, but not to do them as well as they could have. While their … Continue reading →

On Procrastination II

Last time I admitted to my horrible tendency to procrastinate. One of the interesting things about procrastinators is that they tend to hate the fact that they procrastinate even if they’ve accepted that procrastination is “just how they work.” Having been a procrastinator for as long as I can remember you needn’t worry, I’m one of you. I always did my best work the night before. Still, after I’d handed in my work or given that presentation I always knew that I could have done better. A little tweak here, a little more preparation there. While procrastination drove my success, … Continue reading →

On Procrastination

Anybody else have trouble working on things (in a serious way) unless the deadline is just around the corner? It’s a classic problem. Procrastination. Teachers can generally identify work done in a slipshod manner, it generally involves a loss of sleep for the student, and an entire sub-genre of t-shirts have sprung up in praise of and admiration towards the procrastination of the slacker. Slacker or not, the important thing is, in many cases, simply being on time. If there is a deadline, and you consistently make it, then you’ve certainly solved a problem. Getting things done on time is … Continue reading →

Writing and the Dangers of Procrastination

Earlier in the semester I was a substitute for one of my wife’s high school classes while she was spending time with our newborn son. My wife requires the students write a final research paper by the semester’s end so part of my job was to get them thinking about a suitable topic to write about. This situation forced me to think about how, exactly, one can prepare themselves to write. Writing, then, is my subject for today. I’ve spoken about note-taking before but it is extremely important when you are thinking about writing. It is even more important if … Continue reading →