How To Get Sh*t Done

Calling all procrastinators: sometimes getting started on a new project or goal can be the hardest part. Here’s how to stop putting it off and actually press go

- Bethan Rose Jenkins and Cyan Turan

Reading this as an excuse not to get started on that book idea or work project? You’re not alone. When it comes to achieving our ambitions, it can be all too easy to put off what needs to be done. Whether it’s because of fear, busyness or, er, a new season dropping on Netflix, there always seems to be an excuse not to take that first step. Enter transformational mindset coach Noor Hibbert, who’s created a productivity plan to get what you want. Her advice comes from experience – she describes herself as ‘a recovering depressive, anxiety-sufferer, life-plodder and self-confessed drama queen’, and yet she launched a successful business now worth six figures, and forged a new career in coaching. This is her blueprint for success.

1 Visualize your dream career Everything we see – buildings, clothes, Kylie Jenner’s Lip Kits – starts off as ‘a thought, a daydream or desire’, says Hibbert. ‘Think of a tomato seed – yes, really. The seed is the “idea” behind a tomato. We don’t doubt that if we plant that seed, water it and give it sun, a tomato will appear. In the same way, our thoughts are seeds that can manifest into our goals in real life, but they won’t unless we take action.’