How to Cast Aside Procrastination For Good So You Can Achieve Success in Your Work at Home Position

The act of perseverance is equally as important to success in your work at home position as oxygen is to our very survival. Honest perseverance will undoubtedly get you through the hard times even when you feel like you're banging your head against a brick wall.

On the opposite side of the success coin is procrastination. Perseverance can be summed up as simply never giving up, for procrastination; you never actually make it off the start line. In addition, the failure to get across the finish line is too a form of procrastination.

Reasons for people procrastinating in their work at home position are as follows:

* The Perfectionist Mentality - "I like things to be ready before I can properly begin. I can't have any interruptions, the place where I work needs to be calm and peaceful. I can't have any callers disturbing me. I have to be at prime health and fitness. I can't work when it's beautiful outside; I just have to enjoy the sun."

The other form of procrastination - failing to cross the finish line - is also the result of the perfectionist mentality: "I'm not leaving here until this report is perfect!"

For any perfectionist acting this way, they are simply deluding themselves, believing that their defects are examples of excellence. This defect-into-excellence complex means that they believe they operate on a higher plain to everyone else when in fact they are their own worst enemy.

* Fear of Failure - I believe the number one reason for anybody to procrastinate in their work at home position is because of a fear of failure. Many people are simply too afraid of being anything less than right all of the time or on a lesser note, afraid they won't become highly successful on their first attempt. By thinking this way, you are placing yourself under tremendous amounts of unnecessary pressure, becoming paralyzed by fear.

In my opinion there is no difference between never leaving the start line to never crossing the finishing line - you're still no better off correct? You haven't reached where you wish to be. Your work at home position goals are still there waiting to be achieved.

Why allow yourself to be controlled by negative thoughts towards your future in which you create this fantasy of you being criticized, ridiculed, poked fun at by people who are too fearful themselves of becoming who they really wish they could be.

Of course with such negative fantasies dominating our thoughts we find ourselves doing absolutely nothing - it always seems far easier to just stay where we are.

Who else wants to overcome procrastination?

That's fantastic because I'm here to teach you how to flip the success coin over so that perseverance is shining back up at you. This process needn't be a chore, it needn't be painful either.

How it is accomplished is by using two very powerful formulas that cultivate productivity and perseverance and not inactivity and procrastination.

1st Formula: Break It Down

How do you eat an elephant? Easy...one bite at a time! The key to attaining great success in your work at home position is to break down your work load into bite size chunks and pick them off one by one as you progress through your day starting with the most important.

Focus is key to making success out of this practice. How many times have you been concentrating on a piece of work when an email arrives in your inbox...in the email is a link to a web page...from that web page you go to another web page and so on and so on. Accomplish first what you left your starting line for - get across the finish line then check your emails.

You will find that as you tick off each task you feel a mini sense of achievement, each strike-through on your to do list is a mini victory. This keeps you in a positive frame of mind, it keeps you motivated, and it keeps the ball rolling, building more and more momentum, that's when you're in the zone.

2nd Formula: Write It Down

When goal setting it is imperative to write yours down on paper. In order to conquer procrastination writing is equally as important.

With goals you focus on the future, however in this instance you must focus on the present as you go about your day. Start tomorrow by writing down exactly how you spend your time - a diary of the day's activities and the time you spent on each activity. Be brutally honest, no matter what you did - put it down on paper.

By the end of your day just before you go to bed; take a look at your day. It will probably come as no surprise to you that a sizable percentage of your day is taken up with time wasting, unproductive, unnecessary acts - you're only human. All of these prevent you from getting to the finishing line, from reaching your true potential; they are all forms of procrastination.

Your day down on paper brings every thing out into plain view. You can now clearly see how you spend your time and where there is room for improvement.

I personally carry around with me a small jotter pad when I'm doing this. The size small enough to fit into a breast pocket - that way it's not a chore to have to carry around. Whatever task or activity I find myself involved in I make a note of the start and finish time.

It's going to seem a little strange at first to do this but in order to truly get an accurate idea of how proactive or inactive you really are, carry it through for a full week.

Break it down. Write it down. Two simple formulas but very powerful at cultivating productivity that will enable you to keep procrastination away for good leaving you to achieve great success in your work at home position.