Procrastinate with Purpose – Award Winning Accountant in London
And the phrase I just read was “those who procrastinate only meet with failure” and why – I think in life, I think generally that’s probably true because on the big things, the important things, we tend to procrastinate generally. However, I think in my experience, entrepreneurs like you and me, I don’t think we procrastinate. I think we do a whole load of stuff. I think we do too much stuff. I think sometimes that is what is holding our businesses back.
So typically, what we look at doing is too many things that are too shallow and we don’t see them through and as a result, we don’t see the benefits of all that hard work entrepreneurs like you and me put into the team.
So one of the programs on our Profit Multiplier Program, we identify just three projects a quarter and we will break that down into the most important, the second and third. We then attack the most important first and we do that until it’s finished in the first week, in the first month, or whenever it is. Six weeks, it doesn’t matter. We don’t stop until we finish it and then we go on to the second project. So what we recommend you do, is procrastinate on the other projects. That’s the first bit of procrastination.
The second bit of procrastination that I referred to a while ago, procrastinating can be useful, is to procrastinate on the things that are less important than the things that are more important. Very often we have a to-do list which is way too big and some of the things that we do are things that we probably shouldn’t do in exchange for the things that we should. So we leave the more important things because they’re bigger. They’re a bit more scary and they require a bit more thought.
So we will leave that until we have more time and we will do some of these little bits to make us feel good and tick off some of our to-do list and that will make us feel good. In fact what I believe we should do and what we recommend and certainly on our program, what our Profit Multiplier Program is all about, is how we focus on one thing to the exclusion of the others. We procrastinate all the less important things to the benefit of the most important thing which will move your business forward.
