If you’re like most people the idea of actually following the suggestions in this article would probably have you clutching your heart or gasping for air. I get butterflies in my stomach just writing about it! But that’s part of the power in Creating Your Own Skip Day – it will help you sift out the time consuming addictions that you use to avoid from the daily habits that actually help you get valuable work done. Any way you slice it this will be an eye opening exercise for you.

1. Skip Incomplete Projects – Permanently

You’ll be surprised during your Skip Day at how you will naturally gravitate towards some of the projects that you’ve been procrastinating on, but you’re going to want to approach them with your new Skip Day mentality, too.

Ask yourself, ‘Are they really even worth doing, or should I permanently Skip the idea?’

2. Skip Reading

Anything. Memos, books, trade journals – you name it – if it’s reading – skip it. Emails? Skip reading those, too. And no – I don’t just mean save them for later. Skip them permanently – as in delete. ALL of them. Especially anything older than a month. Trust me; if you haven’t used it by now the odds are good that you won’t ever use them. If it was important it’s likely that it is relatively easy to recreate.

3. Skip Watching the News

No news is good news! Keeping a positive mental attitude is a real challenge for most people and if you’re a news junkie you may be more affected by it than you realize.

If watching the news is your normal ritual, skipping it will help to got you off your automatic on “how” you listen to it – and the stories you tell yourself about it.

4. Skip Listening to Negative People