Ah!
procrastination
the killer of dreams sending everyone to their to their
graves. The wealthiest place on the planet with their songs unsung still in
them and a place where inventions never see the light of day and, and books never
get written.
You know procrastinators are wealthy people when
they go to the graveyard.
I want to be one of the poorest guy on
the planet when I get there. I don't want to leave anything on the table.
And you know what? to do that you're going to have to learn how to be a
reliable action taker.
Kris Krohn here, Limitlessly TV.
And today, we're going to
be talking about how you abandon procrastination and swap it out for the
powerful momentum of being an action taker.
Alright
in this very short video, I'm going to be sharing with you two words.
Two words to help you stop procrastinating.
Now
get ready because
here they come.
Stop it!
Just in case you didn't get that
maybe just one more time.
Stop it
or
stop it.
Okay I'm just messin, I'm kidding
right?
I mean listen, we all know how to
procrastinate. We've all done it before. How do you stop it? How do you stop
procrastinating and how do you successfully get stuff done?
Well that's
what I want to talk about in today's video and I'm going to jump right now
into the hyper practical advice because I'll tell you that in my life when I
look at how you get from point A to point Z, it requires daily action. And
there's this momentum that can build in your life when instead of being a
procrastinator, you become an action taker.
By the way, I want you write those
words down because it's the mantra of the day for you which is, I'm an action
taker.
I'm an action taker. I take action. I take bold action.
So
how you become an
action taker first of all start by just believing you're an action taker and
then there are these additional steps that I do every day in my life.
My morning starts off with what I call a Power Hour.
My Power Hour is my time
before the world begins, to get clear on what it is I want to achieve that day,
what I want to create and my specific steps.
So parts of my Power Hour I will
spend going to the gym working out my body.
there's some prayer, there's
meditation and ultimately I'm going to get myself grounded and clear minded in
the first hours of the morning and I'm going to ask this question, what do I get
to do today?
What do I need to do today?
What will help further my purpose today?
What will help me accomplish an objective and goal XYZ?
And I use a very
simple technique of just quieting my mind, taking in a deep breath,
and asking
that question and seeing what comes up.
Inevitably, what results is a short list
of email this person this thing,
have this conversation with someone.
Um,
right this document, do this thing, especially for entrepreneurs but frankly
anyone that wants to just achieve more, getting grounded and clear and then
getting that short list of what to do is an essential part of being an action
taker because now you're taking inspired action.
But the next part is also really
critical.
In fact, this is my rule that I will never slouch on.
This is the one
that is absolutely worth writing down which is, my day doesn't end until I have
done everything on that list.
Now just think about that for a minute.
Think, think for a moment, I don't care if it's 11 o'clock at night and there's two
more things on that list I'm not going to bed until everything on that inspired
list is done.
It's because of the danger of the number one.
One is the difference
between the impossible and the possible. Between death and life and it also makes
a difference between an action taker and a procrastinator.
How so?
If my day is
coming to an end and I have allowed myself to push one thing off to the next
day
then there it begins the power of a bad habit.
A negative habit,
a sabotaging
habit.
Because there's something important that I got that morning that I
get to do that day and if I get in the habit of saying, it's
okay I'll do it the next day,
that's the danger.
So for me when it comes to
procrastinating, I'm not a procrastinator as long as whatever I get in the morning
I take action on that day.
You can do this too. Start your day off by making a
list of the things that get to happen that day and then make a commitment that
they need to happen. Raise them to that high priority. In my really high priority
is my relationship with my wife and my kids, my connection to God, fulfilling my
purpose and another one of my priorities is finishing my to-do list.
Why?
because if I do my to-do list every single day, guess what? I'm not a procrastinator. I'm
actually developing an amazing habit of growing myself and knowing that I'm
taking action. And you take a look at the difference between really successful
people and those that aren't, it's that they have it and they have a habit of
getting stuff done on a consistent basis.
And what it's going to do
in this last segment of the video, I'm going to share with you is a really cool
gift that it produces for you.
The biggest gift that's going to come to
you by being an action taker is that you're going to start building momentum.
Consider for a moment a large flywheel like on the back of one of those
steamboats that has the the wheel moving in the water or the way they would use
those with house is connected to the fly wheels and generating electricity or
movement, when you start taking action every single day you may not, you might
not see the benefit at the end of the day.
Because all you did was take a step.
And by the end of the week, you might start to feel something building because
you've taken steps all week long.
But mark my words, after a short period of
time, maybe a month, maybe two, you'll have taken so many positive steps in the
direction of what you want as opposed to procrastinating that you'll be able to
look back and say, "how did I get here?".
I've taken some very real tangible steps.
Some of the things work but some of the things didn't but if I have been
procrastinating nothing would have worked.
How cool is that?
It's amazing! it's this amazing gift of momentum and that momentum only comes
when you get in the habit of taking that list every day that you get under
inspiration and then acting on it and making sure that this day doesn't end
till I've done these things. That's what I'm committed to do.
You develop one of
the coolest things. You develop integrity. You develop this relationship with
yourself that says,
I trust me.
I trust me to show up.
And when I received guidance
inspired guidance or I've used free will to make good choices, I can count on
myself to take action.
And the integrity that you get from creating that, that you
can claim?
Oh!
that is an amazing feeling almost the total opposite of anyone that
would ever consider themselves procrastinator.
And now I'm going to test
your ability to take action.
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Measure how much time,
oh you already did?! good job!
See? look at that you already take
an action now in your life I'm so proud of you! I could reach that camera and
just give you a high-five.
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