10 Point Self-management checklist
From the University of Victoria’s Counselling Services, a paper designed to help students tackle university assignments, but with transferable concepts for any type of personal undertaking.
- Specify a clear cut goal you want to accomplish. Make it specific, measurable, acceptable, realistic, and
- Record your hit rate. Track your successes and failures.
- Make a public commitment. It’s more difficult to back out of a personal goal when you have asked others to keep you accountable.
- Arrange for regular contact with your monitor, daily or weekly as needed. Don’t just ask someone to keep you accountable; meet with them regularly to review progress.
- Add an explicit penalty for failure, if you need to. Give small rewards to your accountability part as penalties for your missing a target or failing on a behaviour.
- Think small. Don’t think about losing 50 pounds, think about losing one pound and repeat 50 times.
- Specify the amount of product you’re going to produce. Define your small steps. Don’t just say, I’m going to do some reading, specify the number of pages you need to read in the session.
- Get a timer that beeps every x minutes and chart whether you’re on task. Divide your task into appropriate segments and use a timer to keep you on track.
- “Put Satan behind you.” Get rid of distractions; temptations that keep you from meeting your goals.
- Recycle. If you self-management project falls apart. Don’t discard it. Look at the parts that worked and recycle them. Examine those things that didn’t work and find a way to make them better.
Related Posts:
Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Leave a comment