Are you a shuffler?

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Are you a paper shuffler? You know the kind of person who has a list of things they need to do, yet instead of taking the first item off the pile, you shuffle through the stack until you reach one that you want to do. Well, as you will have gathered by now, you're not the only one. We are all shufflers to one extent or another.

But leaving the work tasks to one side just for a minute, and focus on our personal projects and goals, you would think that we would have no problem at all getting fired up and enthusiastic about those items on the list. So how come when it is cold and wet outside, we really don't want to get up, put on our running shoes and go outside?

Yet we know that health, fitness and losing weight is no.1. on our list for 2007.

How come we say we are going to save money to pay for a holiday yet we continue to spend our spare cash buying things that we know we shouldn't.   We tell ourselves that it's OK, we'll start tomorrow, we absentmindedly shuffle the pile, conveniently "forgetting" what it was we said we wanted to do/achieve.

Structured procrastination (otherwise known as shuffling) can depend on how we are feeling at a particular place/point in time. It may also be that the tasks we really want to do aren't on the list (why not?). If we really can't get inspired, then what do we do?

Accept that sometimes we don't want to do something - regardless of the fact that we know we will have to do it at some point?

And then what - we accept that we don't want to do it, so what happens now? Well the only way we can get over this particular hurdle is to do it anyway.

Yes you can have the day off if you want to. I'm not going to stand over you and watch you. But what happens when tomorrow comes around? Well not only have you got today's tasks to do, but - now you have "tomorrows" tasks to do as well.

If you persist past the point of "I can't be bothered" you will achieve quite a lot. So stop shuffling, pick a task and just do it (as a well known company tells us).

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