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This follows on from yesterday’s post here. You should read that first (it’s only short).

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So… the story begins with a lot of introspection…

…After asking myself wh I was not getting things done, I had a revelation!

I realised that our willpower is like a small child – mine is like a stubborn little git that won’t do anything he doesn’t want to.

Have you ever seen a small child, about four or five years old, that is over tired?
When it’s way past their bed-time and after the extra energy they get from the thrill of being up late, they then degenerate into a demon that throws tantrums beyond all proportions?
Sound familiar?

OK, so my willpower is like that.

How do you get any kind of order and good behaviour from a child?

Routine. Kids NEED routine in their lives; from morning routines to get them dressed and teeth brushed to evening routines to get them to bed at a certain time.

They might complain at the introduction of a new routine, but pretty soon they get into the groove and, once established, a change to this routine results in apocalypse.

So that’s step 1 in getting myself to make any progress:
Routine.

Every day do the same things at the same time.
And while we’re at it, making plans and all that, let’s make sure the most important things get done first. Before anything else. By doing that one thing you’re probably outperforming most people  – I mean, how many days have you had where you wonder if you achieved anything at all?

The toughest part of all this is that I don’t have a parent forcing me to adhere to the new routine.

So how do we replace this with something equally persuasive?

Find out tomorrow, in the next part of Getting Shit Done

If you enjoyed this, thought it was helpful, useles, complete crap, or the ramblings of a madman, then comment to let me know, and while you’re at it, why not tweet it too?

Tony.