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[http://www.horoscopes.se horoscopes] Control Your own time - Get rid of Distractions! Procrastination is the better thief of success. And the easiest way to fall victim to the thief, is always to allow you to ultimately be distracted. Ask me. I am a master of procrastination through 'worthwhile' and quite hysterical distractions. When I first got to move from the farm being an 18-year old to start out going to university in the big city - in this instance, Pretoria, South Africa - I felt like I had arrived in an enormous, live Xmas Box, filled with new presents of ideas and new people that have there been purely for me personally to find! I stumbled on study medicine, but rather, I finished up studying all sorts of fascinating things beyond that. I discovered new tastes (olives), new sounds (jazz), new knowledge (horoscopes, yes!), learnt that we now have new lifestyles (gay), studied a fresh language (French) and undoubtedly, got to meet a whole load of new people. Having developed in a very closely guarded, but in addition very loving farming community, I was used to once you know everybody else, at the very least from 'sight': the children and their parents at school and the teachers and pastor were all as close as 'family'. Most of the people living on our farm and the neighbouring farms of my uncles were known to belong to a certain homestead nestled in on the list of hills and forests. Everybody I saw on the street in the little town where we did our weekly food shopping was a known person. If there is a stranger, it absolutely was super easy to figure out to which known person this visitor 'belonged to' or if it was just some one passing through. Strangers really did not arrived at this town, unless they knew some one there, sold stuff to the shops, or were lost. When I eventually got to the town, after a few years I experienced a 'distraction disorder': in the sea of as yet not known people I'd suddenly identify someone from the back that walked exactly like so-and-so. I'd start running to meet them, only to realize that if they turned around, they certainly were another person. Then it got worse. I would start panicking because I saw all these people walking using their backs if you ask me and I might never know how they appeared to be from the front! So I'd start running to see basically could meet up with them, merely to see their face, once. I was seldom fast enough. Needless to say, this sort of distraction did not help me in reaching my goal, which all things considered, was to examine medicine! My imagination has always been my greatest 'distractor'. My childhood and teenage years were full of very little 'outside' entertainment, therefore, alternatively, my imagination was my own, personal personal 'virtual reality' home entertainment device. T.v. only found its way to my life when I was already twelve years old by means of a small black-and-white tester screen. Dad, who was called 'Prof' around town, would install everyone else's tv's, before that he could afford an own one. But that he was also highly innovative, and thus we spent week-end nights driving around in the rebuilt Merc on the farm, with the tester TV on the dashboard, and my dad's arm stuck out from the window, holding a television antenna he had custom-built out of a classic washing machine drum. I'll never forget the excitement of watching the initial children's programmes on that tiny, blurry black-and-white box! For the rest I had acquired my mom's taste for reading (I started reading on her lap as a three-year old) and could easily sink away in to a world of somebody else's make-believe that would jump in to reality as i turned the pages of 1 more incredible book. This blurring of imagination and reality was most evident when 1 day, in the early 1980's as a 16-year old, I was submerged in the novel 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoi. I was reading of a riveting war scene when I looked out of my bedroom window and saw our wide expanse of lawn strewn with men in uniform. I had such a fright that i dove (is 'dove' really a word?!) right under my bed, my heart beating wildly... It took a while, before I surely could rationalize myself into reality again: This is enough time in South Africa when the Apartheid government had convinced all of us 'whites' that the Communists were busy brainwashing the 'poor blacks' in to taking over our Christian country in order that they could rule. Since there is a war raging on South Africa's borders, and 'terrorists' had made their appearance in rural farm areas, the area 'commandos' (volunteer farmer-soldiers) were staging inspection visits to every farm to see if the homestead was secured against 'terrorist' attacks. Therefore the men in uniform on our lawn were section of one of those commandos that had earmarked our farm for inspection that day! Needless, to state, our home was redlined as perfectly 'terrorist-friendly'- we'd no security fencing or window guards whatsoever; my parents regularly forgot to lock the doors at night and most of us slept with windows open to allow in outdoors. Our 'watchdogs' were my beloved 'Goldie' - a toy-pom who couldn't catch a 'terrorist' even if she have been fed steroids and 'Rommel' a mangrel mixture of something and the other, who unlike his German general namesake, would set you back hide under the kitchen table if any stranger should turn to check out him. And simply to clarify what I wrote above about 'communists' and 'terrorists': we all now realize that the 'poor blacks' were in reality deeply wronged and fighting against Apartheid out of their own accord and true moral right and that what we (highly patronizing) 'whites' were built to believe were 'terrorists' were really 'Freedom Fighters' who've liberated South Africa from a terrible, racist regime. When I came to discover this a few years later in 1986, during Germany, I felt like I had been living on the wrong side of the Matrix up to the period of my entire life! I digress... But purposefully. I needed to share with you this story to illustrate how easy it really is to let ourselves be distracted by our imagination and the incredible mass of information around us all. Which is not counting the incredible convincing powers of a whinging daughter or son or perhaps a tempting husband... And then, the desk packed with bills and cash slips that induce a dull throbbing in your head every time you lift your eyes from your work... Respect your time! And teach others to respect it. You simply have a limited resource of time and also you can't 'catch up' punctually ever. Time wasted is time lost. I fully understand an 18-year olds' understanding of time is markedly not the same as that of a 40-plusser. But for this reason I'm writing this blog and just why you are reading it: to fairly share a better knowledge of how to reach finally your goals, no matter your age. And should you want to fulfil your dreams you will need to awaken to the reality the period is really a key factor. In the period that you have reserve to work at your goal, whether this really is to examine or even to home based, stick to the following rules: Pull the plug on the tv set. In the event that you cannot live without your favourite shows, then schedule time in your daily policy for them, but keep consitently the TV turned off among. Set your cell phone to 'Silent' and have visitors to send Texting as opposed to leaving messages on voicemail. Then call back the hour you've put aside for telephone calls in your daily programme. Log out of Facebook! Don't keep it open as long as you're working. Log in for a scheduled time, do what you ought to do and log out again. Close your email Inbox. Here is the biggest time-killer of them all. Just open it on one or two specific times per day, prioritise the influx of mail (Delete, Read or Action). The more you delete, the less you read and the sooner you receive into a habit of putting away a certain time when planning on taking action, within your daily programme, the quicker you may end up being the Master of Email rather than the grovelling slave. Ask your household to 'get with the programme': Take a seat with your family members and explain to them that, as you still love them around ever whilst still being want to spend as much quality time with them as you possibly can, you have taken a choice to take control of your own time, to have your goals. And also this means that they have to respect your own time and let you give attention to the work you need to do to make this happen. Reveal to them about your 'DMO' - your Daily Mode of Operation and that in every day there is special time reserve to spend using them, to discuss issues with them and to just be together. Also, point out that each and every weekend you are going to create a concerted effort to focus on them and make a move they would like to do along with you. Work out a time together on the week-end that they would prefer with this activity: Saturday morning, afternoon or evening? And ensure that you calm them down about Sundays: Sundays is a day of rest and from now on they are going to do not have to pull you away from your pc on this day again, because you'll be there to own time for them and enjoy a restful day along with them. Don't feel disheartened if you are met by an unbelieving stare and a snicker. Taking get a grip on in your life involves teaching everybody around one to also manage theirs - at the least as a sign of respect for you. Also, if your previous behaviour has been anything but systematic, planned and organized, you need to earn that respect by proving throughout your new means of doing things, that you have adopted a brand new DMO! Of course, having a plan and staying with it meticulously also always means being flexible enough to understand when you can just change it to allow for new or unknown data. Do not become so focused on your daily life as well as your goals, that you neglect the requirements of the family members around you. If the man or child that you experienced really needs some TLC, get right up, make him or it a cup of coffee or perhaps a hot chocolate and be available to hear him or her. But should this happen all too often during your working hours, you will have to reserve time one week-end to talk this through until both of you are on the 'same page'. You'll be surprised simply how much support you will get over time from your family in the event that you keep them involved with your progress, of course, if they understand that actually, life is becoming better for every body, since you are typical now better at valuing time. [http://www.horoscopes.se horoscopes by date]

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