Most of the time when making a change or working towards a goal, we hit a "plateau" where we feel less progress, this can result in losing some of the important gains we have made. Review this month's newsletter to see if these suggestions for recognizing and pushing past your plateau are applicable to you:
Pushing Past a Plateau

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Facing Procrastination Head-On

Procrastination happens to everyone at some point or another, but there are some people who procrastinate with nearly everything. This can pose some major problems when it comes to meeting deadlines and your health. Putting off tasks until you are under a time crunch weighs you down and puts your body through unnecessary stress.

Before you can begin to conquer this behavior, you need to first stop and think about why you are putting it off. Once you have established some trends in why you engage in such behavior, you can begin to target and beat procrastination through the following tips:

• Maybe you want to start a project, but don’t want to start it now. Set yourself a deadline to get started, and be sure to stick to it! 
• The workload of a project may be large and intimidating, so you put it off. Find a way to break up a big job into smaller tasks. Then go step by step until your project is completed. While on the first step, don’t think about the second step, just think about the step that’s being done and move forward.
• You tell yourself you have plenty of time. Without beginning the task there is no way for you to judge how long you think it’s going to take to complete. Try and at least attempt a job really early so you can gauge when you should be investing significant time.
• You don’t know where to start. Take care of the easiest and most enjoyable parts of the job first. Then move on to the bigger parts once you’ve got momentum going. 
• You feel a sense of really not wanting to do anything. If you get a habitual sense of that feeling, take a step back. You may want to examine why that is, and maybe make some changes in your life to do more things you love to do.

Source: LifeAdvantages ©2020

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