Old-fashioned willpower: An action day

taken from the book “Think Smart Act Smart”

All too often, life can become an almost robotic cycle of tackling urgent but not necessarily important tasks. If you want to boost your effectiveness, you’ll need to try some new tactics. One way to jump-start your mind and body is by having an “action day”, in which you work at full throttle.

to cut the story short, you prepare a list of preferably 50 tasks.. mixture of small and large, physical and mental, administrative and creative.. from “start composing symphony” to “pay phone bill”

then you start the day at 8am and complete every item on your list.. remove all disturbance and temptations.. no interruptions, no distractions, not even break for lunch.. you prepare something to munch while you complete the tasks.. you only stop when you finish the whole list..

well, i tried tat today.. but i cant complete everything.. i made a list of 39 items to do.. i completed 22 of it.. slightly more than half.. not bad ehh.. guess my willpower not tat strong.. but it will improve.. cos i wanna attempt another action day on monday.. hahaha..

you guys should try it.. the boost in self esteem when you complete the list is really marvelous.. if you guys want, i can photocopy tat page and pass to you.. =)