I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination. - Zig Ziglar

What actually keeps us away from being straight and determined is our own head.

We all know these situations: While we could go straight towards the goal, we discover ways on how to distract and distance ourselves from the original target.

It's quite easy to lose track when we're open to any possible distraction.

Here's how we can get rid off that procrastinator inside ourselves!

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Master your inner procrastinator!

That's probably easier said than done.

I guess all of us know these circumstances. Whether we're in a business or private life situation, there's a high probability of inadvertently getting distracted from our original path. Sometimes we're not even aware of it until we suddenly find ourselves doing something completely different from what we had originally planned to do.

Think about an upcoming job interview for instance.

While we may be preparing ourselves with regards to the content of the conversation anticipating the questions we're supposedly going to be asked and possible answers, we eventually start to think about the right outfit to wear and begin to select various combinations of garments to then end up tidying up our wardrobe.

Now that we're already far away from the original project, suddenly the idea of a new hair cut - which could also considerably improve our appearance during the job interview - crosses our mind. So we pick up the phone in order to make an appointment with our hair dresser.

Apparently, some inner voices tried to suggest that with the interview in mind we should primarily focus on the impression rather than on the message. Instead of following our original idea of effectively working on the preparation of the appointment, we listened to the procrastinator inside ourselves and stopped being efficient.

As some of you who are constantly following my blog might know: I'm a huge fan of the entrepreneur Sam Ovens and his business strategies. Now it's him who has a great advice for us in this context:

Listen to your inner procrastinator and then see what activity or task it's pulling you away from. Whatever it's trying to pull you away from, that's the actual target you should work on. - Sam Ovens

Listen to these distractive voices and let them guide you to the real target!

It's us who are our biggest time killers.

The next time you end up tinying your wardrobe instead of preparing a business appointment, remember my words :-)

And now enjoy your weekend!
Best, Marly -

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