http://www.beatprocrastination.com Get back on track with those activities that are in your own best interest Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:05:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Focusing on what’s missing This one is last, but by no means least. We are all good at this and most of us practise it not only daily, but hourly and by the minute. – You don’t believe me? – Do you keep a list of things you need to do each ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/procrastination/everyone%e2%80%99s-favourite-procrastination-patterns-6/ Choosing to lose This one is slightly surreal. Do you hate losing? Do you hate losing so much you avoid situations which bring you into competition with people? - Welcome to the Choosing to Lose procrastination pattern. Procrastination provides the perfect way to avoid competing with others. Avoiding competing with others guarantees failure. ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/procrastination/everyone%e2%80%99s-favourite-procrastination-patterns-5/ Paralysis by analysis This is another favourite of many people. You are taking on a goal/task/project. Before you begin, you start to analyse what and how it needs to be done. This is good, as it is necessary to plan a project through step by step. However, while analysing, you start to convince ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/procrastination/everyone%e2%80%99s-favourite-procrastination-patterns-4/ The Lone Ranger This is very popular with people at the helm of a business. You feel you can – or even MUST – do everything yourself. Either because you’re so smart, creative and amazing (remember Avoiding Effort?) or there is a sense of: “If I ask for help or delegate any ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/procrastination/everyone%e2%80%99s-favourite-procrastination-pattern-3/ Avoiding effort This is a very interesting pattern and goes something like this: you’re smart, creative and always able to make the right decision – so taking on this task/goal/project will be easy for you. However, when things get tough, and you are down to the boring implementation rather than the ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/uncategorized/everyone%e2%80%99s-favourite-procrastination-patterns-2/ In our research around procrastination, we have looked at many ways of how people procrastinate – and we have identified a few Favourite Patterns – 6 in total watch this space to get to know them all. Let’s start with what currently seems to be ‘Everyone’s Darling: Last minute mania This is probably ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/procrastination/everyone%e2%80%99s-favourite-procrastination-patterns-1/ Following from the last blog, it’s probably time to look at what’s going on behind those patterns, and whether we’re just ‘condemmed’ to live with them forever… Well, you guessed it, all is NOT lost -  We CAN do something about our unwanted behavioural patterns,  if we look at the problem ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/procrastination/eq-or-iq/ Are you frustrated because your business isn’t where you want it to be? Are you too busy trying to get through your ‘to do’ list to concentrate on what is strategically important? Do you: •    Put things off until tomorrow? •    Busy yourself with long lists of jobs to do every day? •    Still ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/procrastination/getting-down-to-business/ Nicole Bachmann is a masterful coach and facilitator with a strategic business background and a law degree. In her longstanding career across the international media and other industries, she has successfully lead and inspired a wide range of people from many different cultures in four different languages. Nicole is passionate about people ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/profiles/nicole-bachmann/ 'The Beat Procrastination programme is utterly supportive; the homework projects are creative and revealing. When I joined this programme I had many projects on the go and there were definite areas that just weren’t happening. Six weeks later I am totally on track, ... http://www.beatprocrastination.com/testimonials/utterly-supportive/