Muliple demands, job stress, & financial worries are turning more and more managers, small business owners, and working mothers into Workaholics with less time for family and health and liesure activities.
To make more time for the actions that will make a difference in your life:
-- Stop trying to get everything done. "Done" is in the imaginery future
-- Focus for 15 uninterrupted minutes on one project-- that means No checking email or Facebook, no getting up for a donut and coffee -- and your brain will learn that you mean business and want Problem-solving rather than your favorite distractions
-- Use 3-12 breaths [see Fiore's Centering exercise at www.neilfiore.com/articles.shtml as a transition to Focused Mindfulness
-- Tell your brain and body [your workers] When to start and What to do. Tell yourself the specific time you will start for 15 or 30 minutes on your Top Priority project. Become a more Effective Self-Manager and you will manage others effectively.
See my latest book, The Now Habit at Work offers new strategies for Optimal Performance on the job, in your business at home, and for entrepreneurs.
see www.neilfiore.com and www.neilfiore.com/coach.shtml for articles and coaching
Neil Fiore,PhD: Executive Coach, Speaker and Author of Awaken Your Strongest Self, The Now Habit, and The Now Habit at Work: Perform Optimally, Maintain Focus, and Ignite Motivation in Yourself and Others [Wiley, 2010]
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Hello Dr Fiore,
I finished reading "The Now Habit" a few days ago. I am a student who bought this book in my freshman year and procrastinated reading it until my senior year. I wish I had read it earlier! I'm sure it would have saved me a lot of cramming and stress.
I already have my 'Unschedule' ready for the start of my last semester and I'm sure your book will help me face the huge capstone project that I have ahead successfully, one step at a time.
I have also opened a blog, together with a friend, to answer math questions for people who need help solving a particular question: http://solvehsmath.blogspot.com
Our main audience probably consists of people who procrastinate a lot. I might recommend The Now Habit to them.
Thank you
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