Over at Zen Habits there is a great post, 7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done. One of his 7 steps for overcoming procrastination is to schedule a time and place to get things done. This is great advice and something that I have put into place recently to get this blog going.
I’ve wanted to start this blog for months. But I never seemed to find the time. Recently, I started forcing myself to wake up an hour earlier so that I could spend an hour each morning working on this blog. This works for me for two reasons:
- I hate waking up early. By forcing myself to get up and work, I don’t procrastinate or get distracted. Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth the early morning wake-up call.
- First thing in the morning means I have no other distractions. I don’t read email, blogs, news, etc. The first thing I do is work on my own blog. All those other things have to wait until I’ve completed my blog task for the day.
When I was in high school, my journalism class had a motto: Make it happen! Sometimes, the easiest way to make something happen is simply to schedule it. What can you schedule?
Tags: GTD, morning, productivity, scheduling