Procrastination

Procrastination is a big area of work for me. My preferred strategy for this is to suggest to patients under hypnosis that they spend seventeen minutes everyday tidying their desk, making cold calls or whatever it is they have been procrastinating about. The rationale is that seventeen minutes is short enough to be tackleable but long enough to achieve something. It works very well, with or without hypnosis. I told a networking associate about this and he used it on his in-tray. He was very satisfied that by the end of the week his previously overflowing in tray was now empty; and also found that one of his suppliers had been overcharging him and he managed to recoup some money.