You have a Problem, but no Solution for this? Putting things off, waiting and pondering won't get you anywhere. Better: tackle the problem in 5 steps.

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Wait, wait, wait: fear of the sword of Damocles

Is there in your Study any subject or upcoming exam that you have Stress might? Or yours Workplace a task that makes you uncomfortable? Perhaps this sword of Damocles is even spoiling your entire course of study or work?

You may even have Anxiety before this task? Or, are you even convinced: "I'll never make it!" Or you think: "I just don't like the subject, the topic!" Because you can't find access to this hated topic or because you just can't bring yourself to deal with the topic that Projects to finally bring it to a head in a straight and determined manner.

Ruminating alone does not help

You have probably pondered this problem many times?! Perhaps you had made up your mind to finally do this or that in order to…. And then somehow everything stayed the same again. If this scenario, or part of it, sounds familiar to you, then you should check out this one Article read.

In situations like these, we usually try in vain to call ourselves to reason. Or we avoid - although the time may already be pressing - deftly everything that has something to do with the subject.

5 steps to success

Then the following “Jump Start Guide for Uncomfortable Tasks" help. It helps you to view and analyze the topic, your project, from five different perspectives.

After that, the situation looks different for you and the upcoming task suddenly much easier and quite feasible.

Step 1: ask for the "why?"

There are situations where it is possible to delegate tasks, such as a tax return for example.

Step 2: get rid of fixed ideas

Or even plugging them in completely, like the elaborate creation of a garden pond in your backyard, structured according to Feng Shui aspects. Or the fixed one Idea, the internship must be at a Fortune Global 500Companys having to file, i.e. with a company that is one of the 500 companies with the highest turnover Welt for a trip to the Winterlude.

However, if your studies are about taking the exam in a very specific subject or completing this important project, you usually have no other Choice. You have to go through that. Mostly. Because that's not always the case either.

Step 3: find alternatives

As chairman of our audit committee, I have often wondered why students, who had fallen through the examination in an elective subject, then put their entire study at risk by logbernd for the re-examination.

As an alternative, it would have been quite possible to unsubscribe at the request from the subject, which they had determined, as they had not hoped, and to reassign another option.

Step 4: Thoroughly question decisions

But, for example, you don't have this freedom with compulsory subjects during your studies or an important project. Then the question is relevant:

Step 5: we always have a choice

Realize that it's your own free decision was and still is to study exactly this subject at this university or to take this job. And since such situations always year-long Things to Learn and work entails, I assume that you had a good reason for this choice.

It does in difficult times Sinnthat you chose this original parent, yourself Objective make aware again. You may also ask your supervisor, lecturer, colleague or fellow student what exactly this goal is actually important for.