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When setting a deadline for yourself or others, setting it in the "present" increases the likelihood that the project will be completed on time. For example, a deadline of "this Friday" is more in the present than "next Monday." And while the difference is only a couple days, the conceptual difference to our minds is much larger, say researchers at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

In an experiment, the researchers incentivized 295 farmers in India to open a bank account by promising to match 20% of their initial deposit. To set a timeframe on the opportunity, one group of famers was given a deadline within the current calendar year while the other was given a deadline in the following year, though just a month later. Surprisingly, seven times as many farmers opened the account when the deadline was more "in the present".

So next time you're having trouble finishing a project, you may consider moving the deadline ahead on the calendar.

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Setting Deadlines for "Now" Can Help You Finish Projects On Time

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When setting a deadline for yourself or others, setting it in the "present" increases the likelihood that the project will be completed on time. For example, a deadline of "this Friday" is more in the present than "next Monday."

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I can also set an early deadline for my important tasks. In doing so, I will have extra time to complete other less important tasks.

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I need to just take action and do the important tasks first. If I do this I will be able to overcome wasted time.

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Following a serious accident and injury, a victim's focus is often on their physical recovery. While making your health a first priority is important, you should also begin thinking about legal recovery as soon as you possibly can. This is because state law imposes a strict statute of limitations [1] on all personal injury claims. A statute of limitations means that once a certain period of time has passed, injured victims will be unable to recover from any negligent or otherwise responsible parties. If you have been injured in an accident that was caused by another person's negligence, you should not delay in exploring your legal options and risk the statute of limitations expiring.
What is the statute of limitations in PA?
Pennsylvania law [2] sets out the statute of limitation of two years for all personal injury claims. This means you have two years from the date the accident and injuries occurred. Once two years have passed, claims filed will likely be dismissed by the court with no recovery possible.

There are certain exceptions to the two year time limit to address special circumstances. For example, some accident victims are not able to immediately identify injuries that stemmed from the accident. Some injuries, such as soft tissue injuries, concussions, and more, may not begin showing symptoms for some time after an accident. A victim who suffers concussion and is not familiar with traumatic brain injuries [3] may believe that they are confused or have headaches due to other causes unrelated to their accident. For this reason, the law allows the statute of limitations to start from the point of time when you knew or should have known that you suffered injuries from the accident. Additionally, minors who suffer injury have within two years of their 18 th birthday to file a personal injury claim arising from an accident that occurred when they were still a minor.

Lawsuits must be filed by the end of the statute of limitations; therefore, because lawsuits take time to prepare, you should never wait until the last minute to consult with a personal injury attorney to discuss a possible case.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitations

[2] http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/42/00.055..HTM

[3] http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/traumatic-brain-injury/basics/definition/con-20029302

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Following a serious accident and injury, a victim's focus is often on their physical recovery. While making your health a first priority is important, you should also begin thinking about legal recovery as soon as you possibly can. This is because state law imposes a strict statute of limitations [1] on all personal injury claims. A statute ...

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I am also very bad at estimating time limits, if I have somewhere to be I am always about 15 min. early. I could be doing something more productive than just waiting 15 min. for the event to start.

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I also have a hard time keeping my things organized. If I need a paper it my take me a while to find it, which is a waste of time.

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Matius 6 : 25-27 dikatakan, "Karena itu Aku berkata kepadamu: Janganlah kuatir akan hidupmu, akan apa yang hendak kamu makan atau minum, dan janganlah kuatir pula akan tubuhmu, akan apa yang hendak kamu pakai. Bukankah hidup itu lebih penting dari pada makanan dan tubuh itu lebih penting dari pada pakaian? Pandanglah burung-burung di langit, yang tidak menabur dan tidak menuai dan tidak mengumpulkan bekal dalam lumbung, namun diberi makan oleh Bapamu yang di sorga. Bukankah kamu jauh melebihi burung-burung itu? Siapakah di antara kamu yang karena kekuatirannya dapat menambahkan sehasta saja pada jalan hidupnya ?"

Ketika hidup dihadapkan antara hal yang benar dan hal yang salah, cukup mudah bagi Anda untuk menentukan mana yang akan Anda pilih. Tapi bagaimana jika Anda harus memilih hal yang paling prioritas menurut Anda di antara semua pilihan yang benar? Prioritas adalah menentukan apa yang harus Anda lakukan di antara semua pilihan yang benar. Menentukan apa yang paling benar menurut Anda. Makanan, minuman, maupun pakaian itu penting. Jika kita tidak mendapatkan makanan maupun minuman kita bisa meninggal. Jika pakaian saja kita tidak punya, apalagi yang berharga dalam hidup kita? Namun, meskipun sebegitu pentingnya ketiga hal tersebut, seperti ayat di atas, makan, minum, dan pakaian janganlah menjadi hal yang utama dalam hidup kita.

Dalam ayat di atas dikatakan bahwa Tuhan bahkan memelihara burung-burung di udara yang tidak mengusahakan apa-apa . Jikalau begitu, lebih lagi Tuhan akan lebih memelihara Anda yang percaya padaNya. Tapi apa yang lebih penting untuk Anda lakukan? Anda perlu mencari prioritas utama apa yang menjadi tujuan dari sesuatu yang Anda lakukan. Jika Anda hanya kuatir dalam hidup Anda, hanya sia-sia saja. Di Alkitab jelas dikatakan bahwa dengan kuatir Anda tidak dapat menambah sehasta saja pada hidup Anda. Yang pasti sedetik saja dalam hidup Anda tidak dapat ditambahkan. Juga apa yang sudah berlalu, tidak dapat Anda putar lagi meskipun Anda sangat menyesali apa yang terjadi. Jadi, buat apa Anda kuatir?

Mengenai prioritas, setiap hari kadang kala Anda dihadapkan kepada prioritas. Apakah Anda ingin makan ikan atau ayam? Apakah lebih baik sayur bayam atau kangkung? Apakah sebaiknya memilih olahraga jalan kaki atau lari? Semua pilihan itu benar, tapi apa prioritas Anda? Misalnya saja, Anda lebih menginginkan ikan daripada ayam dan vitamin yang ada pada ikan lebih Anda perlukan, maka prioritas Anda adalah ikan dibandingkan ayam. Terkadang dalam mengambil suatu prioritas, kita harus bergumul mengenai prioritas itu. Yang manakah yang harus kita pilih? Bagaimana jika yang kita pilih itu ternyata salah dan malah membuat hidup kita berantakan. Kita terus mempertanyakan pilihan yang bagaimana yang harus kita ambil.

Bertolak dari situ, hanya ada satu jalan keluar yang bisa Anda temukan. Sebaiknya Anda tanyakan pada diri Anda sendiri, apakah pilihan yang Anda ambil itu sudah sesuai dengan kehendak Tuhan. Jika sudah sesuai, Anda perlu tanyakan pada diri Anda lagi. Dibandingkan pilihan satunya, apakah lebih dikehendaki Tuhan atau apakah lebh efektif. Jangan dibalik.

Ingat, satu hal yang penting ini. Ketika Anda memilih sesuatu, Anda harus mengerti bahwa pilihan Anda itu akan mempengaruhi kehidupan Anda di kemudian hari. dampak yang harus Anda perhatikan, khususnya jika ada keputusan berat yang harus Anda ambil dan akan mengubah masa depan Anda. Setiap keputusan yang Anda anggap sebagai prioritas, harus dapat Anda pertanggungjawabkan dan Anda terima setiap konsekuensi yang menyertainya.

Selengkapnya:

http://www.jawaban.com/index.php/spiritual/detail/id/57/news/100911153322/limit/0/Prioritas-Kehidupan-yang-Menentukan-Masa-Depan-Anda

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Jawaban.com:Prioritas Kehidupan yang Menentukan Masa Depan Anda

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Matius 6 : 25-27 dikatakan, "Karena itu Aku berkata kepadamu: Janganlah kuatir akan hidupmu, akan apa yang hendak kamu makan atau minum, dan janganlah kuatir pula akan tubuhmu, akan apa yang hendak kamu pakai. Bukankah hidup itu lebih penting dari pada makanan dan tubuh itu lebih penting dari pada pakaian?

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I have a problem with doing the unimportant tasks first and doing the important tasks later.I am wasting my time because I should be doing the important tasks first

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By:In: Srikanth AN Life Hacks

The creative mind is often a labyrinthine of thoughts and plans, and channeling them properly takes a lot of effort and perseverance. Procrastination or putting things off for the day tomorrow is what most people have to face with almost on a daily basis. Doing the things planned for the day, for the moment becomes an act of thinking, 'There's always tomorrow for it'.

What people fail to recognize is that resistance the brain offers does not spare you with these thoughts when the sun rises again tomorrow. The resistance your mind offers that leads to you putting off things right now would be more or the same when you sit for completing those tasks again the next day. Procrastinators are creative visionaries who dream about building a beautiful mansion or writing a bestselling novel, but don't get the basics right like putting together the bricks and the words needed for accomplishing what they set out for.

The difference between a bestselling author and a wannabe author is not much to be concerned about. As Eugene Ionesco puts it, " For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing ", there isn't much difference at the end of the day between both, apart from a few pages completed by the author. While the published author is laying down his words page by page, the wannabe just fantasizes about the perfect end he must have. At the end of the year, the author will probably have the first draft completed and the winnable will have. Well, Nothing! And that's how procrastination tears down through the dreams of the creative visionaries out there.
Are you procrastinating? Answer these simple questions to know

Are you checking your eMail multiple times without intend to reply to all of them?

Are you opening social networking sites Facebook and just browse through and not taking any action?

Are you doing small and low priority tasks and leaving important tasks for tomorrow?

Always waiting for right moment to start that one important thing and you are still waiting for it?

If your answer is yes, you are Procrastinating my friend and now it's time to take action and change your Procrastinating habits to get things done. Before you follow these life-changing tricks, I would suggest to make a note of it in your notepad and repeat it every day. This way it will become a habit for you rather than just one-time thing. If you are motivated enough to get more things done and achieve your goals, let's go ahead and kick the hell out of Procrastination from your life.

Beating Procrastination With 7 Proven Ways

The thing with the creative work is that it is difficult and excruciating in its original senses. It is something that has to be endowed with, something that the muse speaks to you; it works in harmony with Mother Nature. The main problem that procrastinators face is their fear when faced with the actual process of brick-laying.

A wannabe author, fears for a sentence that might go wrong considers himself a perfectionist, but ends up with nothingness. Bloggers are also one of those creatively gifted people, but many of them are bogged down with procrastination and it hinders them to achieve what they've been working for. Here are some of the proven ways to beating procrastination and get more work done.

Follow the '2-minute rule' - Get started now!

This is a good piece of advice by James Clear, an entrepreneur and motivational writer. According to him, doing any task should always begin with 2 minutes of your time. If the task is small, you must set aside two minutes to get started on it; if it is a new habit, it shouldn't take you more than 2 minutes everyday in the beginning. The advantage with this system is that, you can get easily started on things you want to do, as it wouldn't seem be too much of a burden to do so. The thing that you start out for 2 minutes usually ends up being worked upon for over an hour, i f you're really into it.

For me as a writer, and many other similar people out there, laying down the first line on paper is always the hardest task; once done, the rest is itself taken care of. It has also been scientifically proven by psychologists and actually makes sense in the realms of the physics world, that starting with small thing provides you with the much needed momentum. This momentum proves to be a powerful procrastination enforcer. Once your dread about a daunting task is dealt with, you stop worrying and start doing.
Practical implementation: When you check your Emails on mobile or desktop, make sure you reply to it right-away if it takes 2-3 minutes. This way you will have one less task to deal with and you have defeated most common procrastination habit.
Break it down to the basics

Your tasks and priorities are not properly defined if you can't break your big task into chunks of do-able tasks. Every big task is made up of pieces of little tasks that collectively work together. Once you've identified your task at hand, break it into a few set of small tasks. Having something like ' Collect and organize all the available stats of the blog', seems less daunting than having, ' Build a business plan' on your to-do list. The jest here is that when you break down an important and daunting task to its basics, you get a clearer vision of the things at hand which are absolutely doable and less likely to be put off.

Re-do your To-Do list and try and define each big task into chunks of different smaller tasks that are patently doable. When your mind sees the smaller doable tasks, there is very little resistance offered by it as it considers it to be fairly accomplish-able. The mind tends to avoid what it fears and it takes a fair amount of effort on your end to make it think in terms of smaller set of tasks.

Kill the fear, somewhat!

While I here mean to say kill the fear, it doesn't imply to kill the fear of deadlines, that would be futile. Killing the fear here relates to the creative process at hand. You can't be creative if you are doubtful or fearful about going wrong somewhere. Allowing yourself to make mistakes and learning from them is the only way to nourish your creative mind. If you fear of going wrong while producing a work, you end up not doing it at all.

While the fear of deadlines shouldn't be attenuated at any costs, the fear of going wrong should be eliminated from your mind. Having a fear of the deadlines is a good way of staying on track while accomplishing your goals. Channel your anxiety about the deadline onto the creative part. Instead of worrying about an upcoming deadline, focus on the getting the work done and spend your energy coming up with creative solutions to the problem or situation at hand.

Slow, steady progress is the key

Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare that overshadowed your childhood stories? Well, that's exactly what works in real life. There's a huge difference between doing things and doing things daily, it is perseverance, something harder to get by. Daily work on a task at hand yields far much superior outcome than churning out something just before the deadline strikes. Although two students are of the similar aptitude, the one who crams just before the exam is at a much greater risk of failing the test than the one who worked daily for a week on the test.

How many blogs are out there that are rarely getting updated and still nurturing lots of daily visitors? Little to none. No one would want to visit a website that gets rarely updated, so why would they want to come to you? As a blogger, persevering through all the situations thrown at you and still managing to produce content on regular intervals is the key to your blog's success. The speed doesn't matter as long as you are going in the right direction.

Try being accountable to someone

That is when you realize that your inner self is not strong enough to be too self-critical. That is when you need someone else to oversee the way you get about things. Some people tend to do better when done collectively and the group thing inspires them to churn out more work with relatively little efforts. That is when you need to join interest groups and forums, where like-minded people work to encourage one another.

One such good example for writers is the Writers' groups, which comprises both offline and online groups where these writers gather and critique each others' work. The advantage here is that you can get a clear and insightful suggestions and feedback on your work from a similar minded people. Find yourself one such group if you aren't much of a self-starter when it comes to blogging.

Schedule, Timer and Batching similar tasks

I haven't talked much about the tedious things that have been said almost everywhere earlier about getting things done - 'Prepare a schedule'! Although this cannot be itself abolished from the things one must do to avoid procrastination, it needs a little tweak and diverge a little from its very basic definition. Just having a schedule with a fixed amount of time allotted for each task won't make much difference in eliminating procrastination.

In your schedule, make sure you batch similar tasks. If you set aside some part of your time for social media promotions, have the very nearest task to it similar to this one - like doing something promotional. Same things when batched together tend to be a little easier on your mind and help you work efficiently and focus better.

It all comes down to choices

At the end of the day, the things you choose to do or not to do boils down to the very basics of your intent of doing for or against it. A psychology professor at the Bishop's University in Canada says that, "You've got to dig a little deeper and find some personal meaning in that task." Taking some time out to be introspective and redefining the 'why' of the things your doing makes it much easier to put off procrastination.

The personal choices you make define you and questioning yourself every now and then the whole purpose of your doing this would definitely set you on track. Thinking about why exactly do you want to do it, will help you re-define your plans and goals and propel you to get things done and achieve what you've been working for.

What actions do you take to eliminate procrastination from your work? Shout out your thoughts and comments about the techniques that help you beat procrastination.

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7 Magic Ways To Beat Procrastination For Bloggers

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The creative mind is often a labyrinthine of thoughts and plans, and channeling them properly takes a lot of effort and perseverance. Procrastination or putting things off for the day tomorrow is what most people have to face with almost on a daily basis. Doing the things planned for the day, for the moment becomes [...]

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A huge time waster of mine is procrastination. This is a big problem of mine, I am constantly putting of doing everyday tasks.

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"People say I am indecisive, but I am not so sure about that." I have seen this quote attributed to a former US President, but I doubt he actually siad this. First, it is too intelligent a comment for him and, second, he is far from indecisive. The liberal pundits trying to attribute that quote to him confuse indecision with defective decision making. You can figure out who the President is on your own; however, it is irrelevant. This article is about leadership not politics. Organizations confronted with a decision-challenged individual in a leadership role, is adrift in the sea of serendipity. They bobble around having no direction.

The Problem With Indecision

Indecision is worse than a bad decision. With direction, even poor direction, the individuals affected can properly plan the decision's execution, understand its risk, develop mitigations, and define contingencies when its plans start to falter. Rivals to the direction do the same, obviously, in an opposing manner. The result is a set of critical plans covering nearly all aspects of a decision-regardless of the decision's quality. Indecision denies the framework for proper planning. It leaves everyone unprepared to suffer the consequences of fate, removing their ability to influence the result to fit the stakeholder's requirements.

Fear of the Poor Decision

The source of paralyzed pronouncements is the fear of a poor decision. Affected individuals, with the best of intentions, hide their fright behind two general behavioral traits-ignorance and over analysis.

With blissful ignorance, also known as unrealistically optimism, the hope is that everything will work out based on the misguided belief that there really are no problems. In this situation, the realist is considered negative, a pessimist, disruptive to the team, and is usually banished from the organization. In the end, this is the best outcome for the realist. Otherwise, they are condemned to eternal frustration and, if their prognostications become reality, they wear the blame for their "self-fulfilling prophecy." No one wins.

The opposing trait is deferring the decision in anticipation that new specks of data will create an irrefutable edict. Analyze, collect data, analyze more, and search for more data. The typical scenario brings in consultant after consultant to assess the problem and leaders wait for the answer they want to hear. Meanwhile, time ticks away and fate takes its toll.

Good Decisions Do Not Preclude Change

Poor leaders do not make bad decisions; poor leaders refuse to admit weaknesses in their decisions thereby failing to correct the flaws. By acknowledging that a decision has faults, leaders create an environment that fosters critical thinking. This is an environment that reinforces every aspect of success: critical thinking prior to the decision, wide spread support of the decision, and development of mitigation plans when weaknesses are found in the decision. Most importantly, when (not if) flaws are found in the decision, it provides the platform for non-accusatory change. The result is that lessons are learned in an atmosphere devoid of blame. Everyone wins.

Affecting Change

Understanding the reasons for the indecision is fundamental in affecting change. Attempting to push the eternal optimist to accept reality or convince the consternated analyst that the data is conclusive, is fruitless. You must define an alternate route. The only avenue to address the issue is your ability to objectively lead.

It takes a leader to make effective decisions. The person's position or rank is irrelevant. The leader is identified, in part, by their ability to make and be accountable for decisions, to assemble a team to assist in the definition, execution, and continued critical evaluation of the decision.

Accountability, though, is the most critical trait. It earns trust from the team and the stakeholders. It is contagious. Peers and subordinates will step up and model the behavior. In short, accountability subverts a superior's indecision. It imbues leadership below the consternation and drives the organization forward.

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Indecision: The Graveyard Of Good Intentions

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"People say I am indecisive, but I am not so sure about that." I have seen this quote attributed to a former US President, but I doubt he actually siad this. First, it is too intelligent a comment for him and, second, he is far from indecisive.

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Worrying about a task and putting it off is a huge time waster of mine. This time waster often prevents me from making decisions quickly.

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Don't be intimidated. All journeys begin with a first step.

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. By: Lao Tzu
I like this quote because it is so true because no matter how great the journey the first step is the hardest. Once that first step is taken the hardest part of the journey is over.