Do you procrastinate? Do you often engage in activities other than those you should be doing? Then, you're probably engaging in self-denial and avoidance. These are negative habits that will keep you from achieving your greatest success!

Keep a day planner with you always and make yourself adhere to its schedule. Plan important tasks first. Save less important tasks or unimportant ones for last. Don't begin each day "on a whim," doing whatever pops into your mind at the time. Do you garden or sweep the walks when it's imperative to mail letters right away at the post office so they get on their way or make vital phone calls early in the morning? Do you sweep the walks because you suffer from "phone avoidance," a behavior that lets you tell yourself you 'don't have time to make those dreaded calls because you had to do housework?"

Return phone calls together, in one period of time. Limit television viewing. Use the things you enjoy doing as a reward after you've accomplished the important tasks of that day. After you've completed your weekly written schedule, examine it to find 'wasted time.' Use those minutes, those little periods of time each day, to accomplish miracles!

And are you constantly interrupted? Put a stop to time-wasters, including people in your life who just don't seem to understand the importance you attach to succeeding. If necessary, you may have to 'weed out' people who don't really want you to succeed.

As Eleanor Roosevelt wisely said, "only we permit people to do things to us." Are you permitting others to harm you? Stay on track! No longer permit people to interfere with your success! It's your life. Do your best!