Antiprocrastination

Hello Friends,

We are on our way into the new year. So did you make some resolutions? Did you pick up the same ole' ones? Lose weight, spend more time with family and friends, clean out the garage or attic, get organized? If you are like me I have made and broken more new years resolutions than I can count. Although there have been a few I have stuck with.

Let's talk about one of the things that derail our resolutions. Procrastination... it's a thief and a killer of a lot of the good intentions we set out to do. But there is a solution to this monster. It's to change your mindset about the things you want to accomplish. When we think we can git 'er done we most likely will. But when we think we can't .... well it just sits there and stares us in the face every time we turn around. 

If we will attack those things we put off one at a time it will go much better. Instead of getting overwhelmed by too many things we sort them out and decide which one is the most important today. 

Here's another tip. Pick a certain day of the week and call it anti-procrastination day. My day is Wednesday. I have a little ongoing list on my calendar for all those things that I have put off for too long. On Wednesday I pick one of them and just go on ahead and do it. Really I have found out that some of the things I have put off, thinking they will take too long to do them have only taken ten or fifteen minutes and they are done. Wow!  

Think about this: If you regularly do one thing a week at the end of the year you will have done a total of fifty two things... That's fabulous! That's over the top!!! Here's another wonderful thing about this anti-procrastination day. There will be no more things hanging over your head that need to be done. Plus it feels really good when you finally do those things you have been putting off. 

Now this anti- procrastination suggestion is truly a "thrifty" thing. There is no telling all the benefits that will come out of finally getting things done!! Have a great week and remember to stay... "Thrifty."