So, having noticed this unwanted behaviour I’ve decided to up the ante and have technology come to my aid in the form of the LeechBlock plugin for FireFox which I posted about last June in, “The App Between Your Ears”.
Are You Having Trouble In Finishing What You Started?
As a coach, teacher, copywriter and parent I fall down on good intentions more often than I would like to admit.
But I’ve been testing out an approach since May 2007 that has helped me a lot.
Many of us are filled with the best of intentions – goals and resolutions are evidence of that.
So why do some of us keep sabotaging our own success by not consistently following through?
These two gentlemen might just have a working solution to that conundrum.
Psychologist, Steve Levinson and Peak Performance Educator, Peter Greider – paid attention to nature and came up with an intriguing theory on what they call “an inherent design flaw of the human mind”.
After voluntarily departing cubicle land in 2007, my life/career as a freelancer, like most anything else, has had its share of ups and downs.
The good times are when a deal is won and my creative side can get to work
Not convinced?
OK, in these dodgy economic times, where job security now feels like skating over ever thinner ice, here’s another quote from the same interview:
“I definitely have more confidence now. I can rattle off memorized material at work meetings and people have noticed the improvement.”
Around 19:00 hours Saturday, Japan time, my blog’s email autoresponder service will send a special password to all “blog post by email” subscribers.
This password will open a new protected blog post to be published at midnight Saturday, Japan time.
And inside this protected post you’ll find out how to ‘maybe‘ claim your 1 hour ‘Laser [...]
Well, I can truthfully report that Al Secunda’s 15 Second Principle works for me – in the form of using it to finally release the audio interview I did with him some weeks ago now.
Ever the latent perfectionist, I soon noticed the urge to do anything but publish the d^%n thing!
Such as:
editing it with Audacity [...]
The right hand side of my mouth is still numb as I write this post.
Yes, that’s right. I’ve been at the dentist.
After adopting an “out of sight, out of mind” approach for nearly 3 years, I finally plucked up the courage to go for a checkup.
Six visits later, 3 cavities have been drilled and filled!
At [...]
Here’s the followup to yesterday’s post on Al Secunda and his 15-Second Principle.
I created an 8 minute YouTube Video to highlight the relevance of Al’s approach to slipping past the procrastination giant. (The answers to yesterday’s quiz are also shown underneath the video here.)
1- For many people their biggest DREAMS remain FROZEN FANTASIES.
2- Al’s purpose [...]
Yesterday’s post referenced my all time favorite book on slipping past the (sometimes well intentioned) procrastination giant. It’s subtitled: “Short, Simple Steps To Achieving Long-Term Goals” and is available on Amazon.com
I’ve read and lent Al Secunda’s book out so many times that the pages are coming apart! And he’s such a great storyteller that you [...]
