Chapter 14
Do It - Now!!
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Today's Empowering Quote
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"Putting off a hard thing makes it
impossible"
--George Horace Lorimar
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Today's Empowering Question
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"What's the one thing I've been
putting off that, if I did it, I would feel the weight of the world
lifted from me?"
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Today's Fast Session
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You have things that you've been
putting off, don't you?
Is there a secret that keeps it from
happening? I've heard a rather idiotic suggestion of putting
off putting it off. But somehow I don't think that'll work for
most.
Procrastination is a habit. My
wife will be the first one to tell you that I procrastinate a lot.
...But in my opinion, there is a right
way and a wrong way to do it. OK, I'll tell you the right way.
I put off unimportant things. Now I
don't consider obligations to other people that are counting on you
to be unimportant. THAT'S important. Cleaning up after
yourself is important. Cleaning the garage can wait. That's
just my opinion, you see.
In the years since I "woke up," I've
seen co-workers, bosses, employees and vendors' employees take short
cuts, not do things they said they were going to do, put important
things off -- and it affects other people
dramatically.
Their reputation gets ruined. No one
trusts them any more. And even worse, their lives will be mere
shells of what they could be...
...Because putting important things
off is a habit. A rotten, stinking, dirty, selfish and
self-sabotaging habit.
What? You think it's alright to commit
to someone that you'll do something and then blow them off? Five-year-olds do that. Not responsible adults.
And not you... not if you have any
desire to have a happy productive life.
I learned years ago that all I had to
do most times was just show up with my game face on and I'd win.
When I was selling one to one every day, I made sure that the most
important things got done and worked on my to do list in order of
importance, not in order of how much fun the tasks were. And I
earned at least double and often ten times what my stunned
co-workers and competitors earned.
That's what I mean by there's a right
way to procrastinate. Don't put too much on your plate. If you
don't, when someone gets on your case about not doing such and such
a thing, you can truly say you were too busy.
After all, you have to have SOME free
time, right?
Is this hard?
Not if you look at the benefits of
doing the most important thing, instead of the things you're
"missing out" on.
What's more important to you - what
you GET right now, or what you BECOME in your life?
Want to make breaking this stinking,
insidious habit easy? Good.
Then take the statements below, put
them on index cards and read them three times per day. Morning, noon
and just before you close your eyes at night.
When you actually believe them, you'll
act upon them and you'll have given yourself choices in life that
few will ever have.
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Today's Winning Beliefs
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-- I love doing the most productive
thing possible at
every given moment
-- I have plenty of time to do the things I want to do
-- I get everything done on time
-- I see time as a precious gift and I use it well
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