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How To Recover From A Productivity Meltdown
“So how was YOUR day? Did you
get much done?”
“Well, I guess. I started off
OK, but then I got sidetracked for a couple of hours.
Then So and So came over and
we talked for awhile.
By the time they left, the day was pretty much shot anyway,
so I
just set my To-Do list aside and decided to mess with it tomorrow.”
I don’t know about you, but
this kind of thing used to happen to me all the time.
I would start the day off
with a positive mindset and a list of things that I was GOING to accomplish,
but then I would get sidetracked or start to procrastinate
and eventually throw
in the towel.
The idea was that my momentum
was gone so I wouldn’t be able to get much done
with the time left in the day
and I’d be better off starting fresh in the morning.
Sounds reasonable, right?
WRONG!!!
This is a terrible way of
doing things if you are REALLY trying to get things done.
By going this rout you are
giving into your lazy side and letting it win.
You might think that you are
not giving in by intending to continue your tasks the following morning, but
your lazy side knows that tomorrow is a new day for IT as well.
You will be just as tempted
to repeat these unproductive habits as you were the day before.
And not only this, but you
will be throwing away the precious time that is still left in that day.
How to recover from this.
It’s quite simple actually.
Just hit RESET! When your computer gets bogged down,
resetting it is the best way
to refresh its performance.
Here is what I do when I have
procrastinated half the day away and still want to get things done.
Go into a quiet room (turn
the lights off if it helps), close your eyes and clear your head.
Focus on your breathing and
just relax. This is your actual reset button.
You are recreating the
experience of getting up first thing in the morning.
After a short time of doing
this (however long it takes to reboot) go straight to the place
you normally plan for your
day (office, dinner table, etc…) Get out a piece of paper
and re-create your To-Do
list. Be sure not to use the old one.
The idea is to restart, and
using the old list will just remind you of what you DIDN’T get done.
Write out the new list as if
it’s the first time you’ve seen the tasks.
Assuming that a chunk of your
day is already gone, make sure to create the list
according to the time left.
There’s no advantage to running around like a crazy person
as you try to do a full day’s
tasks in half the time.
The point here is to try to
recover what’s left of the day.
Once you’ve re-created your
list it is important that you think positively.
Remind yourself that you
would normally have been on the couch watching TV,
but are instead taking
responsibility and ‘Getting Things Done’.
Be excited that you are
actually pulling yourself out of the rut of procrastination
that you would have normally
laid in for the rest of the day.
Then use this positive energy
to start knocking out the things on the list.
At the end of the day be sure
to make note of the things you accomplished.
Point out to yourself the
fact that these are things that would have otherwise been put off
until tomorrow and that, even
then, they might not have gotten done.
Finally, write out a new
To-Do list for the following day. Not only will THIS now be accomplished,
but you can then see all the
things that would not have been accomplished had you continued
to procrastinate and pushed
your responsibilities onto tomorrow.
There are three reasons why this ability to RESET is SO important.
1: However you react to
certain situations you are training yourself to be a certain way.
If you give in once, then it
will be easier to give in the next time. And it just goes downhill from there.
Anyone can keep up a strong momentum, but what we are doing here is much harder
and a much more crucial
skill.
We are going from a dead stop to positive
momentum in the same day.
2: How you end your day has a
great affect on how you start the next one.
So if you had thrown in the
towel you would not only be less productive on THAT day,
but you wouldn’t be giving
the following day any momentum to work with.
3: One of the goals I have
when I make my To-Do list is to accomplish some of the things
that will help me get closer
to my life goals and dreams. Every day that I REALLY push through
my lazy side and ‘Get Things
Done’ is one day closer to reaching those goals.
So it is that much more
important that when I have a rough start, I am still able to finish trong.
There is nothing more un-motivating to the
pursuit of your dreams
than to be no closer to them from one day to
the next.
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