Everything Counts! » Procrastination http://www.everythingcounts.com Inspire, promote and celebrate excellence. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:28:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Take Initiative or Get Out of the Way http://www.everythingcounts.com/take-initiative-or-get-out-of-the-way/ http://www.everythingcounts.com/take-initiative-or-get-out-of-the-way/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:00:15 +0000 Gary Ryan Blair http://www.everythingcounts.com/?p=1045 Take InitiativeIn our highly competitive world, your ability to consistently demonstrate initiative is a true competitive advantage as the vast majority of people lean towards procrastination and hesitation as their operative performance state.   ...continues ]]> Let’s begin with a question; what have you done lately to demonstrate initiative and a willingness to go the extra mile in your own life?

This question asks you to demonstrate that you can recognize what tasks need to be completed, when those tasks need to be completed, and how those tasks are going to be completed.

Your answer and behavior demonstrate you ability to think outside the square and display a passion for work.

Initiative can be defined as your ability to activate yourself to do something even if no one has asked you to do it.

Take Initiative

Take Initiative

In our highly competitive world, your ability to consistently demonstrate initiative is a true competitive advantage as the vast majority of people lean towards procrastination and hesitation as their operative performance state.

Your life doesn’t just “happen.” Whether you know it, like it, or simply choose to dismiss this reality, your life is carefully designed by you.

The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. you choose sadness. you choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear.

You also choose to take initiative and take control of your future, or you choose to suck your thumb and wait for someone to tell you what to do.

Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. At any moment of your life, you can choose to take initiative or to offer up an excuse to procrastinate.

And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.

Take the 100 Day Challenge and you’ll learn the true secret to taking initiative and proactive behavior!

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Enforce Self-Discipline

Enforce Self Discipline

Discipline is the umbilical cord of success. Refusing to apply discipline is a withdrawal from the bank account of what is possible.

Discipline is the virtue that gives you the courage and the inner resolve to do what you said you would do – when you said you would do it – period!

Study anyone who has achieved a measure of greatness and you will be studying discipline in motion.

Study a knucklehead on the other hand, and you will be studying procrastination in motion.

Discipline is the cornerstone of self-mastery. You exercise discipline for the same reason you take a bath. Without it you stink!

You may not be breaking any laws by not disciplining yourself, however success requires a higher standard of performance and accountability than that!

Discipline is the source, the wellspring that lets you live the life that you deserve. You must strengthen your inner core if you are truly dedicated to manifesting your highest potential for personal and professional success.

With discipline, you will possess the inner fire needed to focus on your primary goals and realize your dreams.

 

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