Proactive Procrastination

most effective of all personal performance techniques. can’t do everything, need to procrastinate on some items, as such you need to deliberately and consciously delay working on small tasks, need to put off less important items and do most critical ones first, eat that frog, need to eat biggest ugliest frog first and procrastinate on smaller and less ugly frogs and tadpoles Difference between high and low performers is determined by WHAT they procrastinate on procrastinate on low value tasks, make list of everything you do who could do what? outsource, delegate or eliminate, and most of all, WHAT can wait? What can you procrastinate on? 3 Questions for Max Productivity 1. What are my highest value activities? What are the biggest frogs I have to eat in order to get the greatest contribution to my business, personal life, health, family 2. What is it that can only be done by me and nobody else? The late management guru, Peter Drucker, came up with this question 3. What is the most valuable use of my time right now? This is the key question of time management, if answered correctly, we can overcome procrastination. You can get your time and life under control ONLY to the degree to which you discontinue lower value activities. Secret of success? Warren Buffet puts it this way when asked : “Simple. I just say NO to everything that is not absolutely vital to me at the moment.” Ask for time Summary Creative Procrastination is: - Procrastinate on low value tasks - Identify time-consuming tasks - This is an ongoing responsibility asking yourself: What’s the most valuable use of my time? Or your “MVU,” as I like to say schedule your free business breakthrough session #ChristophNauer #Balance6 #smallbusiness #entrepreneurs #timemanagement #businesscoaching #business #professionals #relationship #money #health #selfcare#productivity #coaching #consulting #mentoring #teambuilding #leadership