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If I waited for the right time, when everything lined up neatly, it would probably still reside in my mind as a figment of my imagination. It did not qualify for Fortune 500 status, but it routinely averaged several hundred thousands of dollars in annual sales.
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I call the thing that paralyzes us the most as the dreaded "one day" syndrome." Procrastination keeps us frozen in time, in that inevitable state -- waiting for "one day."
Roy H. Williams, the advertising and marketing guru and founder of the Wizard Academy, says many people have become "prisoner of shadows." He asks Saul Niguez Atletico Madrid Jersey , "Do you have plans and dreams 'but now is not a good time' to get started on them? Are your hands and feet bound by memories of yesterday and fears of tomorrow? Have you been living as a prisoner of shadows? NEWS FLASH: There never will be a good time. Procrastination is the passive assassin of opportunity."
Edward Young puts it like this: "Procrastination is the thief of time." A goal in your head or even written down will not move you past procrastination.
Although writing goals down helps with your actualization, many times they only become a sticky note reminder of the fact that "one day" syndrome strikes anyone at will. The only known cure calls for taking purposeful action towards a goal.
Here are five things you can do immediately that will help you to move past procrastination and to finally start your business or take it to the next level.
1. Plan your tomorrow -- the night before.
2. Always keep your desk, or work space clean.
3. Break up large projects into two or more smaller ones.