DO IT NOW

Time gain and time loss are apparent within the scope of our willingness to act or restrain acting per time. The two words that easily show how much we gain or lose time are delay and procrastination.

Our successes can always be traced to our ability to do things when they are meant to be done. Though this may not always directly guarantee success, it certainly determines how much access to opportunity you can leverage.

The habit of deferring what needs to be done in the immediate for later is the greatest enemy to time. In order to defeat this habit, you need to develop a better habit as follows:

SET MAIN GOAL

Goal setting is essential in handling a project and in daily living. Goal should be set on paper not in the mind.  This major goal specifies what you want to do without ambiguity. It should also be measurable, so that you can track progress. This goal must be achievable, not so big that it is difficult to achieve. It also has to be realistic, meaning that within available accessible resources, the goal can be achieved. The goal has to also be timed. This would give you reason to be time conscious. I suggest that the time should not be in such a way that it would put much pressure on you, it should be a guide. For instance in the next six months, I would have read three books on Leadership.

SET MINOR GOALS

This is necessary to enforce the achievement of the main goal. It should prescribe key performance indicators, which should become the measurable indices for the level of success being achieved.

In the case of the goal being considered here, it should include when to buy the books. Will you buy the three once or differently? Then decide how many chapters you should read per day to meet the goal of reading them within six months. This is necessary realizing that reading these books will not be the only things you would be doing within those six months.

Setting daily goals and weekly goals are ultimately necessary if you will be delivered from procrastination.

ACCOUNTABILITY

This has to do with publicly saying what you want to do to your spouse, or siblings and friends. The essence is so they can hold you accountable by asking you how far you had gone. Also by reminding you if you are achieving it as you purposed to do, you will be motivated to always do something on the goals, so that you can have a response for your accountability partners.

COURAGE

Sometimes procrastination is borne out of fear of failure. Courage is taking action in spite of fear. Therefore you have the responsibility of psyching yourself at all times and building confidence within you until you develop courage to act on situations per time.