Self Help: Procrastination: Why It's Bad For You and How To Beat It

Procrastination: Why It's Bad For You and How To Beat It

Written by Dr Kem Thompson

PROCRASTINATION: WHY IT IS BAD FOR YOU AND HOW TO BEAT IT.

Procrastination – putting off things that need to be done presently- is a habit that’s easy to cultivate. Trouble is, it’s a bad (and sometimes dangerous) habit. There are several reasons why it is vital to break this habit. I have listed a few below:

·It wastes your time – if there’s something you’re supposed to do, and you postpone doing it, you’ll have to do it anyway. If you don’t do it when you’re supposed to do it, you’ll end up doing it when you should be doing something else. ·It lowers your self-esteem because you feel you’ve failed if by repparttar end of repparttar 131119 day you haven’t done what you know you should have done. ·It keeps you from reaching your goals. ·It gives you a false sense of comfort. You deceive yourself when you think ‘I’ll do it later’. You never know what might come up later, making it impossible to do repparttar 131120 task. ·It’s a sign of laziness. Chances are, if you’re lazy in one aspect of your life, you’re lazy in other aspects as well. ·It keeps things piling up. This makes you feel overwhelmed when you finally get round to doing them. A vicious cycle then develops because you are put off by how much you now have to do. ·Procrastination keeps you stuck. It prevents you from progressing in life. ·You are unable to concentrate on doing other tasks until you’ve completed repparttar 131121 one at hand. You feel like there’s ‘unfinished business’, which there is.

18 Resume Presentation Tips

Written by James North

1. Do print your resume and covering letter- simply not everyone's writing is a joy to read. Make sure that repparttar

recruiter will at repparttar 131118

very least attempt to read your application.

2. Only use a laser or bubble jet printer to make copies. Never use a dot matrix printer, copier or a fax.

3. A Times Roman font works seems to work best for paper based resumes and Courier, Monaco, Arial or Verdana fonts work well for electronic resumes

4. Although changing font size for headings is okay, never change fonts themselves.

5. A general font size of 10 to 12 point for repparttar 131119 body and 11 to 14 point for headings is generally used. The best tip here is to get repparttar 131120 body and header font size in proportion; i.e. don't use a point 10 font for repparttar 131121 body and a point 14 for repparttar 131122 headers. A 10 font for repparttar 131123 body and a point 12 for repparttar 131124 headers is fine. Also remember, repparttar 131125 font size you may see on screen is not repparttar 131126 same as on repparttar 131127 resume when printed out (and vice-versa).

6. Use bold for headings

7. Use black or dark blue ink throughout your application. Usually, companies will make copies of your resume for distribution among human resources and relevant line managers. Darker ink colours display repparttar 131128 best in repparttar 131129 event of your application being photocopied.

8. Ideally white paper (or ivory) with a matching envelope. Remember repparttar 131130 darker your paper repparttar 131131 more difficult it is to photocopy (which recruiters tend to do) and circulate within a company as we have just said. The paper and repparttar 131132 ink must contrast.

9. Use normal margins (1" on repparttar 131133 top and bottom, 1.25" on repparttar 131134 sides) and don't cram your text onto repparttar 131135 page.

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