Top 10 Ways to Create Your Own Skip Day

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.

4. Skip listening to negative people.  I'd even like to invite
you to be transparent about it and help them become partners in the process. You
can let coworkers, friends and family know ahead of time what you'll be doing.

Get approached by a negative person anyway? You can still share what's going
on with you without being insensitive to their plight. It can sound something
like "Hey; I'm sorry to hear you've been having a rough time and I do care about that, but I'm doing something different today I'd like to tell you about it.
It's called a Skip Day and one of the things I need to skip is anything that's
not positive, so maybe we can talk again tomorrow and maybe you'd even like to
have a Skip Day too in the meantime."

5. Skip cleaning anything.

6. Skip watching TV.  That includes movies, too.

7. Skip using the computer.

8. Skip using your cell phone.

9. Skip one other daily habit - at least!  Or better yet - pick
10 more and double dip on your skip day!

10. But DON'T SKIP evaluating your Skip Day and what you learned from it
at the end of the day.  How did the day go? What surprised you about
the day? What made it easier? Harder? Was it a valuable exercise? Would it be
valuable to repeat sometime? Was it uncomfortable? What are the lessons you
learned that you can carry forward into your regular days both at home and at
work?