Interruptitis Jim Rohn Newsletter Share

Hi Everyone, I would like to share a part of my Newsletter from Jim Rohn. Interruptitis I have quite a problem with this and it shows sometimes. Sometimes when there is a conversation going on and I am part of it I tend to be overly excited and possibly rude by interrupting the conversation. It was nice to hear that this is a problem and can be fixed just by sitting and listening. Sometimes it is difficult to not just jump out and say something.Take your break when the break comes to talk. I am impatient sometimes and think that it can't wait. Yes It can wait. Especially, when someone is teaching you to excel in your business or at work. Just listen. God gave us two ears to hear and one mouth to talk. Hmm. Maybe I'll take his advice and hush it a while. I wouldn' want someone to take my thoughts away from me when talking. So game plan is to listen more and talk less. For those who find that this is a problem for you or another person you know: share this.. It could help them like it helped me. Tina

Interruptitis by Colette CarlsonJust let me finish!!! Are any of you like me? Your mind speeds ahead when listening to someone speak, they pause and you... jump in and finish their sentence? Although I'm much more careful about this with business colleagues than I am with my own family, it's still unacceptable and rude. We can listen four times faster than we can talk--hence, the challenge for those of us who are prone to interruptitis. Yes, I just made that up. Let's take a look at how to handle this situation from two perspectives: when it happens to you, and when you're the problem. Research suggests that men interrupt women more than the other way around (my smart-aleck male friend says it's because men don't talk long enough to be interrupted!) and I 've watched this play out at meetings. Perhaps it's just conditioning, as I've met plenty of women who are comfortable just jumping in when someone pauses (me included), which is often what happens during meetings. But what about if you've barely paused and someone starts to take over your next sentence? In order to ensure your suggestions or strategies remain yours, speak up and say, "Please let me finish, and then I'd love your input." Or "Just a minute, please" and continue. Of course, if this is a client you're trying to woo, give them the floor. In that case, let them finish, address their issues and do a brief recap before getting back to business. What if somebody totally grabs your input and tries to make it their own? Be brave and say, "How is that different from what I suggested a few moments ago?" or "I'm glad you're in agreement with what I suggested earlier." It calls them on their sneakiness. Sure, in some circumstances, trying to get a word in edgewise is like trying to thread a needle on a sewing machine while it's bobbing. But whatever you do, don't raise your hand to get noticed! Children raise their hands--in business, wait for the moment and grab it. Now, what if you're the problem? Well, they say awareness is the first step to change. No one wants to get a reputation as a poor listener, or of having such a big ego that you can't take turns.   We all know the type who barely waits for you to finish so they can launch into their own tirade. If you really want to break the habit, ask for support. Get others to hold you accountable--and if you have children they would love this assignment--being in the power seat! Oh, how they'll delight in saying, "Mom! You just did it again! Stop interrupting people!"       Look, being the Interruptor makes you look bad.  Why? Because disruptions cause the Interruptee to lose their train of thought, start over on a new topic, and feel uncomfortable and unimportant.   So, do your colleagues a favor and zip it and listen. And, for your families, make an extra effort to show respect to the people who mean the most to you. Defeat the Interruptor--one sentence at a time. Okay, now I'll shut up and let you have a turn.   PS>If you like to blog and would like to have your own blogging platformclick here:http://joinwithtina.info   PSS> If you would like to learn how to make money blogging . It is fun and rewarding! Click Here Now!

Ending Procrastination

Ending Procrastination

Recently I am subscribed to Jim Rohn's newsletter and I would like to share what
he has to say on Ending Procrastination.

There are many things, ideas that he points out that are so true to today's world when
we CHOOSE to do something or to CHOOSE not to do something. Will it make us
or break us?

His Newsletter here states:

Ending Procrastination by Jim Rohn

Perseverance is about as important to achievement as gasoline is to driving a car. Sure, there will be times when you feel like you’re spinning your wheels, but you’ll always get out of the rut with genuine perseverance.

 

Without it, you won’t even be able to start your engine.

The opposite of perseverance is procrastination. Perseverance means you never quit. Procrastination usually means you never get started, although the inability to finish something is also a form of procrastination.

 

Ask people why they procrastinate and you’ll often hear something like this: “I’m a perfectionist. Everything has to be just right before I can get down to work. No distractions, not too much noise, no telephone calls interrupting me, and of course I have to be feeling well physically, too. I can’t work when I have a headache.”

 

 The other end of procrastination—being unable to finish—also has a perfectionist explanation: “I’m just never satisfied. I’m my own harshest critic. If all the i’s aren’t dotted and all the t’s aren’t crossed, I just can’t consider that I’m done. That’s just the way I am, and I’ll probably never change.”

 

 

 

Do you see what’s going on here? A fault is being turned into a virtue. The perfectionist is saying that his standards are just too high for this world. This fault-into-virtue syndrome is a common defense when people are called upon to discuss their weaknesses, but in the end it’s just a very pious kind of excuse making.

 

It certainly doesn’t have anything to do with what’s really behind procrastination.

Remember, the basis of procrastination could be fear of failure. That’s what perfectionism really is, once you take a hard look at it.

 

What’s the difference whether you’re afraid of being less than perfect or afraid of anything else? You’re still paralyzed by fear. What’s the difference whether you never start or never finish? You’re still stuck. You’re still going nowhere.

 

 You’re still overwhelmed by whatever task is before you. You’re still allowing yourself to be dominated by a negative vision of the future in which you see yourself being criticized, laughed at, punished, or ridden out of town on a rail.

 

 Of course, this negative vision of the future is really a mechanism that allows you to do nothing. It’s a very convenient mental tool.

I’m going to tell you how to overcome procrastination. I’m going to show you how to turn procrastination into perseverance, and if you do what I suggest, the process will be virtually painless. It involves using two very powerful principles that foster productivity and perseverance instead of passivity and procrastination.

 

 

 

The first principle is: break it down.

No matter what you’re trying to accomplish, whether it’s writing a book, climbing a mountain, or painting a house, the key to achievement is your ability to break down the task into manageable pieces and knock them off one at one time.

 

 Focus on accomplishing what’s right in front of you at this moment. Ignore what’s off in the distance someplace. Substitute real-time positive thinking for negative future visualization. That’s the first all-important technique for bringing an end to procrastination.

 

 

Suppose I were to ask you if you could write a four-hundred-page novel. If you’re like most people, that would sound like an impossible task. But suppose I ask you a different question. Suppose I ask if you can write a page and a quarter a day for one year.

 

 Do you think you could do it? Now the task is starting to seem more manageable. We’re breaking down the four-hundred-page book into bite-size pieces. Even so, I suspect many people would still find the prospect intimidating. Do you know why? Writing a page and a quarter may not seem so bad, but you’re being asked to look ahead one whole year.

 

 When people start to do look that far ahead, many of them automatically go into a negative mode. So let me formulate the idea of writing a book in yet another way. Let me break it down even more.

Suppose I were to ask you, Can you fill up a page and a quarter with words—not for a year, not for a month, not even for a week, but just today?

 

 Don’t look any further ahead than that. I believe most people would confidently declare that they could accomplish that. Of course, these would be the same people who feel totally incapable of writing a whole book.

 

 

If I said the same thing to those people tomorrow–if I told them, I don’t want you to look back, and I don’t want you to look ahead, I just want you to fill up a page and a quarter this very day–do you think they could do it?

 

 

One day at a time. We’ve all heard that phrase. That’s what we’re doing here. We’re breaking down the time required for a major task into one–day segments, and we’re breaking down the work involved in writing a four-hundred-page book into page-and-a-quarter increments.

 

 

Keep this up for one year, and you’ll write the book. Discipline yourself to look neither forward nor backward, and you can accomplish things you never thought you could possibly do. And it all begins with those three words: break it down.

 

 

The second principle is: write it down.

My second technique for defeating procrastination is also only three words long. The three words are: write it down. We know how important writing is to goal setting. The writing you’ll do for beating procrastination is very similar.

 

Instead of focusing on the future, however, you’re now going to be writing about the present just as you experience it every day. Instead of describing the things you want to do or the places you want to go, you’re going to describe what you actually do with your time, and you’re going to keep a written record of the places you actually go.

 

 

 

In other words, you’re going to keep a diary of your activities. And you’re going to be amazed by the distractions, detours, and downright wastes of time you engage in during the course of a day. All of these get in the way of achieving your goals

 

. For many people, it’s almost like they planned it that way, and maybe at some unconscious level they did. The great thing about keeping a time diary is that it brings all this out in the open. It forces you to see what you’re actually doing... and what you’re not doing.

 

 

The time diary doesn’t have to be anything elaborate. Just buy a little spiral notebook that you can easily carry in your pocket. When you go to lunch, when you drive across town, when you go to the dry cleaners, when you spend some time shooting the breeze at the copying machine, make a quick note of the time you began the activity and the time it ends.

 

 Try to make this notation as soon as possible; if it’s inconvenient to do it immediately, you can do it later. But you should make an entry in your time diary at least once every thirty minutes, and you should keep this up for at least a week.

 

 

Break it down. Write it down. These two techniques are very straightforward. But don’t let that fool you: These are powerful and effective productivity techniques that allow you put an end to procrastination and help you get started to achieving your goals.

 

Original post By Jim Rohn...Americas Foremost Business Philosopher

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