What a difference a week can make!

Thank you again for your patience while I took some much needed time to focus on my business. The past week has been very productive and I have concluded that it is time to jump in with both feet. I think I have been trying too hard to avoid making any bad decisions about my business strategy, to the extent that I was paralyzing myself. I simply needed time to figure out the steps and the right order in which to implement them. I made it and am on track.

I will be bringing you along on this journey, so hold onto your seat and let’s go! Beginning this Wednesday, there will only be 100 days left until the end of 2009. I intend to make the most of that time and get more done than I have in years. I am grabbing hold of a personal challenge and you can too. What have you been wanting to accomplish but haven’t started? Do you want to lose some weight, pay off debt, start a business? It’s okay to think big, as long as you are committed to doing whatever it takes to get the job done. If you are ready to rock, take the next two days to write down your personal pledge.

I am committed to strongly positioning my business and earning a multiple five figure income in the next 100 days. Wow! Now it is out there in cyberspace, so I have no choice but to get it done. I can’t wait to cross over into 2010 and set my next personal challenge! Join me on this adventure and please share your challenge with me. We can be accountability partners.

I will be sharing my successes with you every few days as I go along and hope you will let me know how you are doing too. Thank you for reading and be well.

© 2009 Dr. Shannon Reece

The Queen of Procrastination relinquishes her throne.

Ahhh..to be efficient with my time. A life-long dream for someone like me who has spent her life on the procrastination highway. But something happened as I traversed from my third decade to my fourth. Was it some sort of internal alarm, genetically set by my parents’ genes? If that is true, I am sure they have been wondering if my clock was in desperate need of a new battery. Frankly, I think as I have aged I have become less tolerant of adding unnecessary stress to my life.

If I had a rewind button I would love to go back and recapture the months of time wasted while I procrastinated about one thing or another. Think about what I could have accomplished if I had applied myself more diligently every moment of my life! I could have been the one to invent velcro! Okay maybe not velcro, but something great. Since I can’t go back, I must push forward and there is no time like the present to apply oneself to making the world a much better place.

Although I do work very well under pressure, when my genius is pushed out at warp speed, it can be a very draining process requiring a nap. The more things I get done in advance, the more peaceful my life. The more peaceful my life, the healthier I am. The healthier I am, the more things I can get done. So everything people have been telling me for years (and when I say people, I am referring to my wonderful mom) makes some sense after all. It just took me forty plus years to figure it out. I am smart, really. It just sometimes takes a while for all that brilliance to get processed with everything else going on in my head.

Today, I am the world’s greatest list maker. I don’t always check things off in order, but eventually I get it all done (and when I say eventually, I mean sometime before I die). I am working to be all about simplifying, streamlining and systematizing my life so I can experience greater balance and tranquility. My “home” work the past year has been to organize everything from closets and drawers to the bulletin board in my home office, so that home feels more like a sanctuary where my creativity can flow. Has the procrastination fairy been your best friend? If so, you might be ready to drop kick her to the curb to make room for bigger and better things. Take it from me, you won’t miss her too much and you will welcome the space to breathe a little easier each day.

Thanks for reading and be well.