How to make things Hard

One of harsh realities soon to pursue a dream is that sooner or later, you're going to do some things that you do not like much. And ' simply inevitable. Enter procrastination. Dread. Meltdown. complete inertia.

But the prospect of making things difficult does not need to stop you cold. To this end, I was teasing some different ways you can go ahead. Here are some of my favorites:

* Listen to music. I learned when I started running, jogging or ' ' as we called again in the years 70. Tightening on the headphone made go much better. Even today, as I pound the treadmill, it's just much easier if I do not have country music videos playing together, while I work out.

In fact, I recently saw a film in which a soldier speaks on overcoming and his fear of going into battle with the ' listening to heavy metal music in pipes with the helmet. Neurosurgeons, docs, and other emergency operating rooms in high pressure slightly optimistic, often play soothing music to keep stress at work.

* ' ' it Bookends. This is a sentence of 12-step wisely use to call a friend for support before and after a difficult task ... just so you can give an account to someone out there. Use the phone or e-mail and make the connection. You'll be less likely to procrastinate on your way out of it.

* Delegate. You have a task that you can somehow do? I always three or four lurking around the edges of my desk until the day I get up and give it away. Hire a local teenager, elderly person who wouldn't mind working a little ' of light, a family member, or even a local odd-jobs to come in a day and give you a hand with any or your ' stuff. ' if the problem seems to be underway, hiring a virtual assistant, one of the online sources like AssistU.com. This is a person you hire on hourly basis, usually in some other part of the country, which helps you electronically with all kinds of administrative needs. If you can't afford to find help, friend with a friend and offer to do each other tough stuff ' ' in a swap of peers.

* Plan of a large and juicy reward. We are talking about what you want to seriously ... and more perverted the task, the greater the reward. If you must, combine this with the book-end, to ensure that not only the task, but rewarding you as well.

OB in person to come in a day and give you a hand with all your hard ' stuff '. If the problem seems to be underway, hiring a virtual assistant, one of the online sources like AssistU.com. This is a person you hire on hourly basis, usually in some other part of the country, which helps you electronically with all kinds of administrative needs. If you can't afford to find help, friend with a friend and offer to do each other tough stuff ' ' in a swap of peers.

* Plan of a large and juicy reward. We are talking about what you want to seriously ... and more perverted the task, the greater the reward. If you must, combine this with the book-end, to ensure that not only the task, but rewarding you as well.

* Give yourself not to do so. Really imagine life without this particular task completed. Then see what are the consequences. Really awful? If not, maybe you can actually drop the difficult thing from your to-do list. D ' the other hand, you will be disappointed? Not only things seem right somehow? Better to use the ' image of disappointment to move your dream along.

* Try it, first thing. We tend to be cooler and less confrontational, stressed or distracted first thing in the morning (post-coffee, of course.) This is the best time to take seriously the day and do the hard thing. success manuals all preach do it before, and they are right. Works.

* Imagine the ' target. ' and 1,000 new subscribers to your ezine? It is a big potential sales that will change your business, or leaving a job that will help you to live your dream? Make a small note and parcheggiarlo somewhere that is frequent in your line of site, such as a post-it on your computer screen. (It is possible that obscurely Word to protect your privacy in an open work environment.) Keeping your attention on the picture, you get of course less hung on day-to-day things, small.

* Impose a temporary goal. One of my tasks is feared vocalizing, or exercise my vocal cords every day in an attempt to keep my voice and singing in the form. Almost the only motivator I've found that works is you always have a small performance right ... especially in times when I'm working on a long-term project that does not need ' ' my voice anytime soon. Knowing that I have to play, even at a dinner party, keeps me interested to stay in shape. Same applies if you want to work on a regular basis. Find a charity walkathon fun run or you can get in shape for the '.

Ly say? If not, maybe you can actually drop the difficult thing from your to-do list. D ' the other hand, you will be disappointed? Not only things seem right somehow? Better to use the ' image of disappointment to move your dream along.

* Try it, first thing. We tend to be cooler and less confrontational, stressed or distracted first thing in the morning (post-coffee, of course.) This is the best time to take seriously the day and do the hard thing. success manuals all preach do it before, and they are right. Works.

* Imagine the ' target. ' and 1,000 new subscribers to your ezine? It is a big potential sales that will change your business, or leaving a job that will help you to live your dream? Make a small note and parcheggiarlo somewhere that is frequent in your line of site, such as a post-it on your computer screen. (It is possible that obscurely Word to protect your privacy in an open work environment.) Keeping your attention on the picture, you get of course less hung on day-to-day things, small.

* Impose a temporary goal. One of my tasks is feared vocalizing, or exercise my vocal cords every day in an attempt to keep my voice and singing in the form. Almost the only motivator I've found that works is you always have a small performance right ... especially in times when I'm working on a long-term project that does not need ' ' my voice anytime soon. Knowing that I have to play, even at a dinner party, keeps me interested to stay in shape. Same applies if you want to work on a regular basis. Find a charity walkathon fun run or you can get in shape for the '.

This should give some fodder to face the harsh reality of life, and go ahead with those annoyingly procrastinated to-do has. Feng Shui experts insist this mental confusion ' ' keeps us small and inefficient, once you actually go through the hard stuff and clear our anxiety and procrastination, we prosper.

And guess what? They are absolutely right!

TRY THIS ...
Create a to-do list

One of my small projects for the ' estate was to tame my unruly, wildly unreliable to-do list. Somehow has escaped from my book date, spewing post it all over my desk and computer, with another undocumented stack of tasks always clogging up my Inbox. What to do?

Before I read the book by David Allen, Getting Things Done, and a little light bulb goes off in my head. Allen proposes to organize activities for where to make them. So you keep lists like ', ' At Computer ' Boards, ' ' ' ' to ' and Office Time. It is easy and efficient. Allen then several suggestions about where to keep these lists.

I chose the Tasks feature in Outlook, on my computer, and the guy who is fantastic! Every day when I turn on my e-mail, c ' is my list of tasks I stared into the face. productivity experts note that a graphic representation of functions is actually helpful to understand, and be motivated by them. Some are done, some are canceled ... and I can split into lists, check list, a calendar, or any type of list you want with a click of a button.

Not only that, the computer becomes fact that put a timeframe on all activities (whether I want to) and then I remember when the deadline is near or past.

This is just the kind of office structure of a maeander, creative mind like mine (and yours?) Needs to stay focused and on track.