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Your home is full of paper. There are stacks here and there. This was the weekend you were going to get it cleared up. Yet somehow the weekend past, and there arestill papers everywhere! Time to ask howit got this way to start with. Are youa procrastinator? Now is the time tostop procrastinating and start organizing home filing systems. Could I be aProcrastinator? Being a procrastinator can stand directly in the way ofgetting organized. Some people have nodoubt about it, they will loudly and directly label themselvesprocrastinators. Others are less willingto take on the title. So what exactlymakes you a procrastinator? Just because you are keeping busy doesnt mean you areavoiding this pitfall. If you compile ato-do list for the day do you begin by completing all of the smaller, lessimportant tasks? If you want to stopprocrastinating you have to admit that you are putting of your big, moreimportant or crucial tasks. With whatseems like less and less time in the day to get done what we need to accomplishputting off important tasks until a mythical later can have a large negativeimpact on us. Why Do I Do It? There are a number of reasons we put off projects that needto be done. Knowing why you do it is abig step in the fight to stop procrastinating. Lets use your home filing system as an example, but these reasons canapply to other projects as well! · I dont know where to start: Big projects can be complicated. Do you have papers stacked all over your homebecause you havent set up a home filing system? Many people find the process of setting up afiling system daunting. Break up largertasks into smaller steps, this will make it less intimidating. · It is no fun: Lets face it for most of us working on our home filing system is not afun activity. So we put it off. We do tasks that we enjoy more, or at leastprojects that we think we can finish faster! The truth is we need to stop procrastinating less appealing activitiesbecause they still need to be completed! Plan a motivator for yourself. Sometimes you need a reward to get yourself going. For example, when you clear the papers offyour kitchen table you can go on a pleasant fall walk, eat that piece ofchocolate youve been eyeing up, whatever you find motivating. Try to choose something that wont take youaway from your task too long, you dont want to lose steam or get hopelesslydistracted. · Im afraid of failure: This freezes many of us, whether we realizeit or not. If we dont try to completethe task we wont fail. The truth isyour first try at a home filling system MAY NOT be successful. Perhaps that is how you ended up with papersall over your home to start with. It isok, stop procrastinating and get started! Sometimes finding just the right solution to a problem can take a coupletries or some time spent researching. There is a lot of help available out there once you take the first stepand get started. If you are really stuckconsider calling in a professional organizer for a few hours to get youstarted. · I got distracted: The truth is that this is soooo easy todo. While the internet is a fantastictool it also offers us an almost unlimited supply of distractions. Maybe you were just going to check youremail, real quick, and then post a Facebook status, and right after that youwill get started with your home filing system! Two hours later you forgot exactly what it was you had started doing butfound a fantastic new blog and bought a pair of great shoes! When you have a project to complete limityour distractions in the environment. This might mean powering down (gasp) your phone or computer for awhile. Try this trick once you have ahome filing system set up, dont stop moving with the papers in your hand tofile. Dont put them down in awaiting location! Bring in the mail and make decisions. Junk goes straight into recycling and therest of your mail should be shredded, filed, or put into your active paperworkspace. If you put down a stack of papersyou are greatly increasing the chance that this pile will do nothing but growas you give in to distraction after distraction. Figure out your personal weakness and put anend to it today! Procrastination shouldhold you hostage no longer, time to finish those projects like your home filing system and start feelingbetter.
Stop,Procrastinating,and,Becom