You know that sensation you feel that stops you from what you’re doing and entices you to check your email, or your social media feeds, or whatever has a call on you? Todd Henry calls it ‘the ping’. Todd’s definition of the ping has been really useful for me. When he described it as a Full Article
I was in school just when the personal computer was becoming popular. The ‘coolest’ thing for kids our age. aside from playing football of course, was to get access to a computer. In truth, I preferred playing games, as primitive as they were. But we also did some programming. It was in BASIC, one of Full Article
First things first! Start with your most important task! Eat that frog! All of this is good, sound advice for what to do at the start of a workday. Why would you want to postpone your most important work in favour of trivial tasks? But it’s not as easy as it used to be. Five Full Article
Q1: How would you like to feel when your work is done today? Got it? Q2: What actions could you take now to maximise the likelihood of feeling like that? The answer to Q2 will probably include stuff you don’t feel like doing now. You have two choices: face up to what you need to Full Article
For many people, procrastination is perceived as being the same as laziness. If you’re not getting things done, if you’re not meeting your commitments, people are quick to generate all manner of unpleasant labels: sloppy, unreliable, useless, lazy. But is this fair? Is it even true? For me, laziness suggests an unwillingness to do Full Article
What is it that causes us to delay action? What is it that causes us to procrastinate? Steven Pressfield calls it Resistance. His wonderful book, ‘The War of Art’, explores this concept better than any other book I have found on the topic. It’s a book I use in the Smarter Egg Overcoming Procrastination programmes. Full Article
One common misconception about procrastination is that we only tend to put off the things we hate to do. There are so many examples of tasks we would love to avoid: housework, going to the dentist, having a ‘difficult’ conversation etc. It’s easy to understand why we might choose to delay acting on those. Would Full Article
Procrastination is a powerful force. Quite often, it’s too powerful for us, preventing us from taking action in the way we would like. One of the keys to overcoming procrastination is to allow ourselves to build systems, structures and relationships that give us the means to overcome the impulse to procrastinate. This piece from the Full Article
Even though I use a quote from Albert Einstein elsewhere on this site, this post is not an exploration of his theory of relativity! In recent weeks I have experienced both the total relaxation of holidays and the hectic busyness of a very full work schedule. Every day that passed apparently had the same number Full Article
It’s showtime! The first Smarter Egg Overcoming Procrastination programme will commence on Wednesday, September 23rd at the Ambassador Hotel, Cork. The first session will run from 7pm to 9.30pm. This will be the first of four sessions with the other dates reserved for September 30th and October 14th & 28th. Places on this initial Full Article