Tip # 36    Job description is your main guide

You got that much coveted job.  It’s tailored fit to your skills and experience.  The perfect job, congratulations! 

So as not to procrastinate in this new job the way you did in the previous one, sit down and examine your job closely with a fine-toothed comb.  Assess what the priorities might look like, and what the most difficult tasks will be, based on your past experience. 

Then map out a navigation chart, with AVOID PROCRASTINATING as your guiding principle.  Imagine different situations that might occur, and the relationships you need to cultivate and nurture that will help you accomplish your objectives. 
Study the short term goals versus the long term goals.  Remember:  companies measure your performance using certain parameters.  One wrong move and it will obliterate all the good deed you did the month before.  Don’t give them the satisfaction of labeling you a procrastinator. 

Tip # 37    Hone that keen sense of smell

If you’ve developed a strong sense of smell and have judged character with surprising accuracy, use that to your advantage.  Try to distinguish the good colleagues from the back stabbers. 

It’s easy to receive cooperation from the good ones, harder from the blockers or those who resent you.  If hostile feelings are preventing you from doing an effective job, don’t procrastinate because you dislike confrontation. 

Deal with the problem.  Nip it in the bud, as they say.  Try every trick in the book to win their confidence and trust.  Help them not to procrastinate so that you don’t procrastinate.

Tip #          38     Procrastinating can lead to tunnel vision

If you analyze a lot, you could get paralyzed and stay stuck analysis mode.  This could lead to tunnel vision. 

If you eliminate procrastination from your life, you avoid tunnel vision.  As Jane Smith said, “there is always more than one way to get to where you want to be.  Make the effort to look for the alternatives even if they are hard to find at first.” (Successful Work Habits in a Week, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002).