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Name: Procrastinate on Purpose
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Author: Rory Vaden

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5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time

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What’s in it for me? Don’t find the time – make it.

In our hectic modern world, some of us think busyness is a badge of honor. We believe that rushing from one task to the next and juggling multiple priorities shows everyone that we’re productive. But despite this cult of busyness, too many people still feel overworked, disorganized and permanently behind schedule. Where are we going wrong?

Luckily, there is a solution. Get ready to discover that everything you thought you knew about productivity and time management is wrong. These blinks will turn conventional wisdom on its head and show you how to stretch your time, your money and your effectiveness. Drawing on the insights and experiences of famed management consultant Rory Vaden, you’ll learn the secrets of achieving more by doing less and uncover powerful techniques to multiply your productive hours.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

how successful people avoid being busy;
what farmers can teach you about concentration; and
why your $5 coffee is really costing you $35.

The most successful people never complain about being busy.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed with the demands on your time? If you do, you’re not alone. Research shows that the time we spend on routine tasks like getting dressed, household chores and eating can take 5 hours! According to a Newsweek report, simply trying to find our belongings takes sixty minutes of the day. Add in a full-time job, and it’s a wonder we get it all done. So, how can we manage our time better?

Surprisingly, the first step is to quit complaining about how much you have to do.

For many of us, this is difficult. Rory Vaden, for example, used to take pride in telling people how busy his life was. When they asked, he would sigh and explain how much he had to do. Of course, he was busy. Research finds that the average executive now receives a staggering 116 emails a day. As the cofounder of a global consulting practice, Vaden’s inbox was always brimming with demands on his time.

Nonetheless, looking back, he believes he crafted this image of being busy because it made him feel important. After talking to highly successful people who maximize their productive hours, known as multipliers, he realized that these high achievers never complain about how packed their schedules are.

Vaden asked one of these multipliers why they weren’t as busy as he was. She replied that it wasn’t that she didn’t have a lot to do. She just felt there was no point complaining about the demands on her time – that would be a waste of valuable mental energy. Instead of worrying about her to-do list, she gets on with it.

After spending some time with these prolific multipliers, Vaden noticed that accepting their packed agendas gave them a more peaceful frame of mind. They might have been busy, but they didn’t seem stressed. Instead, the multipliers took responsibility for their own lives and steered clear of a victim mentality.

You can follow suit by remembering that you made the commitments that make demands on your time. By taking ownership of these commitments, you’ll empower yourself to find a solution to your overloaded schedule. You are not a victim of your responsibilities – and you are not too busy to take care of them.

Multipliers eliminate rather than add tasks to their schedule.

Conventional wisdom tells us that less is more. Nonetheless, when trying to become more successful, we tend to think about what we can add to our lives to boost our achievements. We adopt a clever new strategy, for example, or add that productivity-boosting step to our morning routine. But the truth is that adding to your to-do list won’t multiply your time or your success. In fact, the path to productivity lies in eliminating activities from your life.

Of course, this might be easier said than done. Why? Because human nature craves the satisfaction of achievement. Thus, we often engage in trivial activities simply to reassure ourselves that we’ve accomplished something. This explains the common yet pointless practice of completing a random activity and then adding it to our to-do list simply so we can mark it as done!

Multipliers invest money to make time.

Do you think like a wealthy person or like an average person? You can find out by conducting the following simple thought experiment. When deciding whether to buy a $5 coffee, what do you think about? The average person only considers whether they have $5 in their pocket to spend. Although this approach might initially seem sensible, the wealthy person thinks bigger. Instead, they consider that if they spend this $5 now, that’s money they can’t invest in something else. In other words, having a wealthy mindset means having an investment mindset.

Crucially, multipliers make time for themselves the same way that wealthy people make money – with an investment mindset. Let’s take a look at how investment begets both time and money.

Save time and money by delegating tasks.

Some things in life just need to get done. If you’ve got a task that can’t be eliminated or automated, then it’s important enough to receive human attention. But if you’re a time-poor worker, don’t panic – you might just be able to delegate it instead. Consider everything you do daily, from housework to spreadsheet updates. Now ask yourself: Could someone else do this for me? For most tasks, the answer is probably yes.

So, why don’t more of us save time by delegating?

Waiting until the last minute can save you time.

Visit a lake at sunset, and you may find a fisherman there with a line of freshly caught fish. But take a look during the mid-morning, and you won’t see him catching any fish, no matter how long he stands there. Why? Because fish bite at dusk and dawn, not at 11:00 a.m. This shows that success is not just about taking action or how long you spend doing something. In life, just as in fishing, it’s also about waiting for the right moment.

With this in mind, give yourself permission to procrastinate.

Multipliers focus all their concentration on their priorities.

During the harvest season, a farmer works a staggering 18 hours a day. Getting ill, tired or taking a career break isn’t an option. She has only a short window in which to pick her crops and secure her livelihood for the rest of the year. The rest of us can learn something from the harvesting farmer. Sometimes, your only option is to focus all your energy on the task at hand.

So far, we’ve learned how to multiply your time by eliminating, automating, delegating and procrastinating. But if you can’t do any of those things, then the task must become your priority. When it comes to priorities, the best way to deal with them is to give them your full attention.

Great time management should be a priority for organizations, too.

How much time are you and your colleagues wasting in the workplace? It might be a lot more than you think. A survey of 10,000 people conducted by the author’s consultancy found that the average respondent wastes 2.09 hours on irrelevant activities a day! These shocking statistics prove that time management shouldn’t just be a personal aspiration, but a commercial imperative.

Let’s calculate how much all that wasted time costs businesses across the United States. The average American, for example, makes $39,795 annually, which equates to around a $19 hourly wage. So those 2.09 hours add up to a $10,396 cost for employers every year. And that’s just for one employee!

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Procrastinate on Purpose (2019) provides powerful yet simple techniques for saving time and money. Packed with straight-forward advice, these blinks shed light on how to escape constant busyness. They reveal how to boost productivity by lightening your schedule and focusing solely on your priorities.

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

—Rory Vaden

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Über den Autor

Rory Vaden, MBA, is an author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker. As the cofounder of Southwestern Consulting, he helps clients all over the world develop their business and improve their customer experience. Vaden’s first book, Take the Stairs was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. His productivity insights have been featured on CNN and Oprah Radio.

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