Friday, November 14, 2014
Hayley Hynd: Procrastination
Hayley Hynd: Procrastination: Hi, my name is Hayley, and I am a procrastinator. Not only, in fact, am I a proscrastinator, but I am an EXPERT one at that. I decided to ...
Procrastination
Hi, my name is Hayley, and I am a procrastinator. Not only, in fact, am I a proscrastinator, but I am an EXPERT one at that.
I decided to write this blog about three hours ago. Since then I have found another 10 'to do' items which I have indeed ticked off and completed, but what about the first idea? What about the project I first started?
As we speak I have another ten items in a pile on my desk. All important and yet so many MORE imporant items seem to come on to my desk all day long. And the items already there are pushed to the bottom.
Make no mistake, I have read books on how to prioritise. I have read books on how to PRIORITISE prioritising :) I have researched, I read motivational material every single day. I am mentoring curently for the biggest business school in South Africa. And yet I STILL battle to get this right.
I realise that as an entrepeneur, the 'to do' list never decreases, and as somebody who has ideas every single hour of every single day, that I feverishly email to myself all hours of the night, that it is expected that some things would be pushed to the bottom of the pile..... I also realise that it has been a very long year, not only for myself, but for every person in my immediate circle, and the people in their circles too! 2014, let's be frank, has been a nightmare.
HOWEVER I also realise that I only have 20 more working days until the much-deserved December break. And as a perfectionist, and as somebody who takes tremendous pride in my work, I realise that this means that the time is now. To prioritise. To diarise. And to accomplish.
If you can identify with this at all, join me, hold me accountable as I will hold you accountable, and let's end 2014 off with a bang and with a totally empty inbox :)
I have now typed this blog in ten minutes - and this means that I have accomplished what I have been postponing for weeks. Says something doesn't it :)
Lets go. Benoni, Joburg, South Africa. Let's put our all into not just this day, but every day. Not just this week, but every week we are blessed enough to see.
Let's live our legacy and leave our mark!
Bring on 2015!
Be kind to one another.
I decided to write this blog about three hours ago. Since then I have found another 10 'to do' items which I have indeed ticked off and completed, but what about the first idea? What about the project I first started?
As we speak I have another ten items in a pile on my desk. All important and yet so many MORE imporant items seem to come on to my desk all day long. And the items already there are pushed to the bottom.
Make no mistake, I have read books on how to prioritise. I have read books on how to PRIORITISE prioritising :) I have researched, I read motivational material every single day. I am mentoring curently for the biggest business school in South Africa. And yet I STILL battle to get this right.
I realise that as an entrepeneur, the 'to do' list never decreases, and as somebody who has ideas every single hour of every single day, that I feverishly email to myself all hours of the night, that it is expected that some things would be pushed to the bottom of the pile..... I also realise that it has been a very long year, not only for myself, but for every person in my immediate circle, and the people in their circles too! 2014, let's be frank, has been a nightmare.
HOWEVER I also realise that I only have 20 more working days until the much-deserved December break. And as a perfectionist, and as somebody who takes tremendous pride in my work, I realise that this means that the time is now. To prioritise. To diarise. And to accomplish.
If you can identify with this at all, join me, hold me accountable as I will hold you accountable, and let's end 2014 off with a bang and with a totally empty inbox :)
I have now typed this blog in ten minutes - and this means that I have accomplished what I have been postponing for weeks. Says something doesn't it :)
Lets go. Benoni, Joburg, South Africa. Let's put our all into not just this day, but every day. Not just this week, but every week we are blessed enough to see.
Let's live our legacy and leave our mark!
Bring on 2015!
Be kind to one another.
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