How to increase the odds of getting something done

You know how in the movies the volume gets louder and louder as the actor is thinking through their list of what needs to get done faster and faster, until finally, the persons head explodes because they're so overwhelmed?

Well, it seems as though many of us feel like that because we just have so many things to do.

And we'll wind up doing a majority, if not all, of the things we commit to do. Why? Well, because we're very good at keeping our promises to other people.

BUT when it comes to ourselves? Forget about it.

We all have great hopes for the day. For the week. For the month. We start each day with promises that we intend on following through with.

Yet, statistically many of us aren't going to.

So what can we do?

Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz in their book, The Power of Full Engagement, describe a study in which a group of women agreed to do a breast self-exam for a period of 30 days.

100% (yes, 100%) who said when and where they were going to do it completed the 30 day exam. Only 53% of the others did.

In another study, drug addicts in withdrawal (can you find a more stressed out population?) agreed to write an essay before 5PM on a certain day.

80% of those who said when and where they'd write the essay completed it! In this case, NONE of the others did.

That's pretty amazing.

If we want to get something done, decide when and where we're going to do it. Otherwise, don't expect to do it.

Why not give it a shot? (Right now, wherever you are!)

-Adam

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