Do It - Now!by Mike Brescia
---------------------------------- Today's Empowering Quote ---------------------------------- "Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible" --George Horace Lorimar ---------------------------------- Today's Empowering Question ---------------------------------- "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?" ---------------------------------- Today's Fast Session ---------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------ Today's Winning Beliefs ------------------------------ -- 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 Mike Brescia is the founder of Think Right Now! International and creator of the Think Right Now! Accelerated Success Conditioning Programs. Mike's programs bring about life-enhancing, permanent changes - not by giving you more information to read or hear then forget about 2 weeks later - but by changing you from the inside-out. I use Mike's programs because they're a TON more effective than any self-help book or audio seminar out there. The only catch is you actually have to use the program every single day. Believe it or not this simple action can be a problem for many people. But as you know, if you're not consistent you won't see results. Mike also writes a great FREE ezine called Today Is Your Day to Win! You should definitely subscribe. You'll get down-to-earth, usable content with specific exercises to help you achieve success. Copyright © Mike Brescia All rights reserved worldwide.
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