Anti-Procrastination Month ’08: Day 4
October 6th, 2008 by Cristina Favreau
How are your anti-procrastination efforts coming along so far? I’m sure you’ll find today’s productivity tip, submitted by my good friend Ricki Heller, very helpful.
I’ve been using this tip for years, since I read it in an essay somewhere. You tell yourself, “I will just work on this for TEN MINUTES,” which seems so little time that it’s not intimidating, and most people can do it. But the trick is, once you start actually working on the task, you usually keep going even after the ten minutes is up — you just needed that little boost to get started! It usually works for me.
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Ricki Heller is the author of the upcoming baking cookbook for people with food sensitivities, Sweet Freedom and the popular healthy cooking blog, Diet, Dessert and Dogs.
Hey Cristina,
Glad you found the idea useful! I'm just about to use it myself (now that I've caught up on my blog reading, of course)