. Introduction
In Module 1 you were made aware of your thinking abilities and skills and how to improve them. In Module 3 we continue this personal growth and development by focusing on you as an individual. This section will prepare you to change or improve your personal finances, dress code, setting of goals and general awareness to make you the most successful entrepreneur that you can be.
Studies have shown that successful business people all have well-organised personal lives which lead to a well-organised business life. From these studies we learn that a good, well-structured personal life generally leads to a successful business, whereas a disorganised personal life never leads to success.
The following mind map indicates the topics
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Make sure that:
• You have personal goals and that they are recorded somewhere so that you can refer to them often
• All your personal paperwork is in order (banking information, accounts, birth and marriage certificates, id book etc)
• Your personal area is clear of clutter
• You have plans and systems in place for doing your housework, planning meals or planning your finances
2.2.2 Not Setting Priorities or not Planning Effectively Whether at home or at work, setting goals and having priorities can help you to complete more in less time. Creating a list of “things to do”, with checks next to the most important items, is one way of completing what needs to be done. Other methods may include colour-coding tasks and projects ranked by importance.
Writing down goals can also help. Each morning, decide on one important task or goal to be completed that day (short term goal). By limiting yourself to one goal at a time, you eliminate the overwhelming feeling of trying to accomplish an entire list of “things to do” at
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Imagining a completed project, without determining the steps needed to complete it, often creates a feeling of being overwhelmed and this can lead to undone or unfinished projects.
Instead, break a project down into small tasks and set a goal to complete one task at a time.
2.2.3 Procrastination
According to one dictionary, “procrastinate” means “to put off intentionally and habitually; to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.” We all put things off. Typically, these items include boring, difficult or unpleasant tasks that ultimately need completing.
Understand why you are procrastinating.
Take a look at the following reasons, and see if you can identify which one fits a current project that you haven’t started or finished:
Habit:
• If I wait until the last minute, I’ll have more motivation to finish it
• I enjoy the excitement of doing it at the very last moment
• I’ll wait until the boss reminds me a couple of times, then I’ll know it’s something he really wants done
• I have so much to do that only the crisis things get my attention
Attitude:
• I don’t have the desire or the drive to do the assignment
• I only get around to things when I feel up to doing them
• I want to do something else
• I lack
Procrastination is the word that I would use to thoroughly depict people. It’s not that everyone procrastinates, but most people do, and almost everyone has at least once in their lifetime. I am positive that you have put off an assignment and had good reason to do so. I often put off all my assignments because the TV is always a better way to spend my time. The history paper can wait, as can the dog that needs feeding. The job doesn’t need to be completed until the very last minute. Now, there is a very sound science to procrastinating. Some would say that it is a skill; furthermore, all my friends refer to me as the “Pro” crastinator. Procrastinating is the best thing ever it feels amazing, and especially if the assignment is boring. The
...n you desire, taking an encompassing goal and breaking it down to smaller specific goals allows you to create a defined map that will promote your progress, one small step at a time, until your dreams have been achieved.
There have been countless times in my life where I have struggled to stay focused on a task ahead of me. I always plan out my work time ahead in order for me to complete a task, but every time I find that I have to revise my plan every day closer to the deadline. The little work that I should have done each day turns into a tremendous amount of work before the due date. Occupying myself with other things that keep me entertained, only brings me a lot of distress at the end. As I continue to torture myself , this bad habit of mine continous to dwell inside of me. One could say that there may be many implied meanings to this concept, but nevertheless, this force that messes with me everyday is considered to be procrastination.
I think the core of chronic procrastination is feeling "disturbed" or some kind of low-level dread. This feeling arises whether you are consciously aware of it or not -- and whether it even makes sense to feel that way.
Procrastination has become such a bad habit for me. It is very hard to stop procrastinating everything once you have gotten into the habit of doing it. Once I had a term paper due for my religion class. It was to be ten pages long and we were told to spend a lot of time doing it. Being the procrastinator that I am, I waited to the very last minute to do it. I waited until the night before to do most of it. Needless to say, I was up very late that night. In this class there was always a part of the paper due on a certain date before the final paper was due. Having things due before the final paper is due keeps me on task and keeps me from procrastinating until the day before the paper is due. There was one paper which we had to get sources for a while before the paper was due and it forced me to keep up with the paper, rather than let it go to the last minute. This class has taught me that the earlier you start the more positive your final result will be.
Make a list of tasks you need to finish each day, then rank them in order of importance. Give yourself permission to finish only the most important tasks today, and let everything else go for another day or delegate them to helpers.
On any given day, my time regardless of how planned it is by making lists can be thrown off track due to usually a sick child/pet. No matter how hard I try, I know my kids will get sick and they will expect me to take care of. Since I cannot usually control when that will happen, it’s important that I take advantage of what I can control, such looking ahead at assignments that will need my attention to plan adequate time to complete assignments a head of time, instead of waiting till the last minute. When I know what to expect I can make plans. Another
Napoleon Hill said procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. A lot of people today will actually experience procrastination in their everyday life, and is not looked at as a problem until it interferes with peoples’ ability to work and if it creates psychological and physical discomfort. Students often procrastinate and most research is observing the college students likeliness to procrastinate. To look at only college students would be bias however since it affects everyone, almost every day. To find out why people procrastinate, looking at personality and motivation can be where the answer lies. One of the leading researchers in procrastination is Joseph Ferrari. He looks at the definition of procrastination, many reasons procrastinations occurs, and the personality types it occurs in.
About 4 out of every 10 people avoid facing difficult task and deliberately look for distractions, and unfortunately there are distractors everywhere. When there is a significant period between when you intended do a job and the time you actually did it, you procrastinated.
Do not procrastinate. Choose a task and start working on it. Delaying a task will only make it that much hard to get started. Commit yourself to working on the task for a specific amount of time each day until it is completed.
Procrastination is hard for me, mainly because I have a bad habit of waiting to do an assignment closer
Looking at my own approach to time management I have noticed that I am well organised and good at prioritising tasks and jobs. When I log onto my computer to start my shift I am sent down numerous jobs, each job is different and has different deadlines for attendance and completion. I plan my day based around the date and time deadlines of the jobs and also the locations of the jobs. I then schedule the most effective order of completing the jobs, putting high priority jobs at the top of my list and grouping sites that are geographically close to each other. By effectively planning my day I keep a focused attitude towards my work and I have time to think about tasks and situations, rather tha...
I am gratified to reflect on my Entrepreneurial Potential Self-Assessment. I have always enjoyed learning the concepts of running and managing a business. Personally, what I enjoy generally is implying these concepts in real life situations. Seeing the ‘real life’ effects are stimulating to me. I always saw myself running a stable/well- establish business; however, I never saw myself running my own business. For my part, I find that I do not have all the characteristics an entrepreneur should have. Therefore, the results are not surprising, but assuring of what my strengths and weaknesses are.
Put all of the projects you have to have done on the top of the list. The things that can wait can go on the bottom of the list. Make sure you know out of all your tasks which ones you have to accomplish. Then set the goal to how far you have to get on the list for each day.
A successful business person must recognize that the measure of success is established throughout life. Therefore, it is important that a successful business person takes time to enjoy the fruits of the business profitability after achieving the set goals. Taking time to have some fun also rejuvenates a person and ensures that the stress of the business life not to accumulate and inhibit the ability of a person to move forward. Therefore, failure to spend some of the profits on enjoying life will prevent a person from knowing the true value of success since success implies finding enjoyment and happiness in daily