5 Tips to Accomplish Any Goal
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Chris_Vanek]Chris Vanek
Don’t Multi-Task
Although Multi-tasking seems like the greatest concept of efficiency, studies have now shown that it’s just simply not true. Distractions are more prevalent now than ever before. With Facebook or Skype a click away to chat to your long, lost relative or “BFFL,” it can be so easy to steer off the path of work. One way to resolve this is to set a time limit for your tasks. If you know you have an hour to complete a task, you’ll think twice before jumping on to play a round or two of Flappy Birds when your deadline submission is in the next 30 minutes, rather than just “at the end of the day.”
Just start
Just start! By not starting your tasks right away you end up doing two things. Procrastinating and building anxiety, both of which feed off each other and increase each other in severity. So how can you just start? Well if you can’t think of your first line don’t start with your first line. Write out some dot points about your article, perhaps you know how you want to close the article so write that first. Additionally, you may want some quotes from some famous folk so go and grab them as well. Before you know it you might have everything but your first line! It’s very similar to meeting someone for the first time, that ice breaker is always needed to get things flowing.
Know when enough is enough
If you don’t have an end in sight it can make a task seem endless. Not having some form of outline on what your task should or shouldn’t be makes it very difficult to sculpt it into the perfect end product. After all does a sculpture just start chiseling before he knows what he is sculpting, of course not, and you shouldn’t either, no matter the task. Timeframes are once again a great way to also help handle this. Sure, if we had a year to write one 500 word article it could possibly be the best article in the universe. But no-one has a whole year dedicated to spend on a single article! By setting a final goal and a realistic timeframe it puts the task into perspective and allows you to rationalise your problem easier.
Define Milestones
Similar to the above, defining milestones is a great way to improve efficiency and effectiveness. However unlike point No.3 milestones are interim goals that can be achieved. So if we have a gigantic task ahead we can break it down into smaller pieces. As you complete each piece it allows you to feel a sense of accomplishment before the product is even completed and also motivates you to keep going in hope to achieve the next milestone. Breaking down the problem into smaller chunks also makes a monolithic problem less scary!
Quality vs Quantity
A key point to remember is that more of something does not mean better of something. Keep things precise and to the point. In today’s world people want information faster and more direct than ever! Why read your article if it claims to resolve my issue in 10 dot points rather than the next Blog which contains only 3? Finally, remember, no one likes to hear the same thing ten times over.
Some people give up when the task seems too tough. Well here is 5 steps to break it down and simplify your approach so you complete any of your goals, big or small!
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