| You have heard how successful people teach losers | | | | of your "frog", the faster you can move on to other |
| that unless they become ready to breakaway from | | | | tasks in your list. |
| mediocre attitudes and habits, they will never really | | | | Don't Touch that Remote. While at work, no TV, |
| become ready for success. True. | | | | period. |
| However, mediocrity is hard to shake-off. As bad | | | | Ignore Facebook. Too much of a good thing can be |
| habits are learned by repetition, a good habit should be | | | | bad. When you are spending a great deal of time |
| repeatedly practiced until it sinks in and replaces the | | | | adding friends on Facebook, planting crops on |
| bad one. | | | | Farmtown, or feeding pets on Petville, you need to get |
| One "defining" attitude of a successful person is his | | | | hold of your self before you get scythe-out of job! |
| ability to finish a task at less time, and with the least | | | | Invest on White Noise Machines. Have you heard of |
| amount of resources necessary. To succeed, one has | | | | "sound masking"? |
| to practice this attitude, at every given opportunity. | | | | If you have not heard about it, it is time you should. |
| However, office or home distractions are many; some | | | | Office noise can come from different sources: ringing |
| of these time-wasters are things you may not even | | | | phone, laughing colleagues, slamming doors, foot traffic, |
| consider as threats, but you lost count on the number | | | | etc. and they all distract! When you are distracted, you |
| of hours you spent on them anyway. How do you | | | | cannot become effective in your work; productivity is |
| bypass these spoilers? Here are some tips: | | | | diminished, also your chances to get promoted. Even |
| Stay on course. Acquire focus. Do not take on a lot of | | | | at home, noise can sidetrack your concentration and |
| tasks that you cannot manage, and would not place | | | | this has a limiting effect on what you set out to |
| you a few steps ahead towards your goal. | | | | accomplish. |
| Fix a schedule. Devise a daily schedule of things to do | | | | White noise machines emit a pleasant sound that |
| and keep at it until you learn to work on autopilot. A | | | | masks noise in a manner that it becomes |
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| steps. | | | | So, you see? Finishing any task at less time is possible. |
| Start with your "Frog". You will not eat a frog, will you? | | | | Just maintain focus, stay organized, do the task you |
| "Eat your frog" is a phrase that will remind you of a | | | | dislike first and get rid of distractions. Build a habit by |
| task you keep on putting off because you dislike it or | | | | doing these things repeatedly until they become like |
| you find it difficult to do. Regardless of reason, putting | | | | second nature to you, and success wouldn't be far |
| off a task never gets it done. The sooner you get rid | | | | away. |