Mentors

Did you know that most Mentors have Mentors themselves, as they know that however good they are they could still do better?
"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you"- bob Proctor
Tony Robbins says that most people just drift through life as though they were floating down a river in a barrel, happy when the river current is gentle, helpless when they hit the rapids. You have to make sure you are directing the movie of your own life, you have to forward plan, develop strategies, get those LONG-TERM things done, not just firefight daily problems. It's tough to give priority to long-term projects eg studying for an exam which is a year away, paying for a pension which is 30 years away, progressing your dream project which is forever bobbing away on your horizon.
How can you counter this:- 1) Create a written Business (Time) Plan for your Project 2) Plan what daily or weekly time you will allocate 3) Put a checklist on your wall to ensure you complete these tasks 4) Detail the mini-rewards you will promise yourself when you complete an item 5) Find a colleague/friend (not easy) or hire a mentor who will hold you accountable
Mentors sometimes known as life coaches help you to rationalise your project(s), help you to decide a plan and a timetable then gently hold you accountable. Good mentors guide you without you ever being aware of it, however in fact mentoring mainly works because you make sure you reach your targets because it is embarrassing to say you've made no progress. There is also peer-mentoring where two Success Seekers mentor each other, the great of advantage of this is that it's free, disadvantage they likely have little experience, the real problem is finding one!
Make a list of all your long-term projects Consider which of the steps above you could complete now Think about whether Mentoring/Peer Mentoring would be useful to you

Give Money Away

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." - Helen Keller
Many of the ideas you will find in the Great Success Classics will seem strange or even odd when you first meet them. Here's one of those principles if you want to succeed you have to GIVE AWAY MONEY. That's a tough one to swallow, the way it appears to work is that you attract good Karma. Now the more cynical might be more interested to know that eBay (learnt at eBay University) can prove from their statistics that eBayers who offered items for sale with a percentage donated to charity had a very significant boost to the sales of their other items. What you will also notice as you become more organised and ACTUALLY get round to sending thank you notes, or giving little unexpected extra services to friends, relations and businesses you deal with is that you much more back in return. Now is that Karma or just obvious!
Think of all the little services you could render to people in your circle, and actually do them. Don't expect any benefit but just be pleasantly surprised.

Procrastination

Margaret Thatcher said, "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it is when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
There are many ways of tackling procrastination none seem to work when you most need it. I will suggest a brutal solution, make yourself so busy that you just don't get time to think about whether you can procrastinate. Where in fact you bounce from job to job, and squeeze in other tasks in between.
Think about times when you got things done and felt that pleasure of resolving problems, try and analyse why you were so resourceful then and not at other times.