How not to Procrastinate Pt. 2

So yeah, last night Wicket wanted to go for a walk, and then the phone rang and then I wanted to play Tetris for awhile. I never did get around to doing any videos. I mean… why do today what I can put off until tomorrow with?

Chris Pirillo: Number five, think about it, this one really helps me. Thinking about what needs to be done, if there is a lot of stuff to do, think about it. It can make you more aware of how important it is to do it. When you think about it, remember what the rewards and consequences are and when they come into play, look at the whole picture. What you have to do? What happens when you don't do, what happens when you do do it? What are the other things you want to do today? So largely what gets me motivated to do work, is 99% of the time, there is an incentive for me. Not just thinking it about, you think about the big picture, but componentize each particular piece of that bigger picture. If you don't look at it as one big task, potentially, but as several small task, it's going to be easier to complete the bigger task. So if you break it up, if you use apes that are better suited to work within less of a learning your fashion, when it comes to task tracking. GTB apes are what spring to mind, I thought a great one for OS X called THINGS, I think I've talked about that before. THINGS, it's a great desktop ape, and it let's me just write down tasks and then categorize them in various categories, and then I can click a button, and see every task that I have tagged with this keyword or that keyword. It's a great way of tracking things that otherwise are very difficult to track in traditional task lists. You find which method works for you. For me, and I have mentioned this before too, by and large and things that I need to get done are sitting in my inbox. My inbox is for the most part pretty pared down. I try to keep less than a hundred in there a day. Of course, it floats up to about 300 when I wake up in the morning, and most of those emails luckily are emails from princess in Nigeria, who want to send me all their money, it's kind of neat. I've got a lot of friends in Nigeria apparently, I didn't know I did, they are following me on twitter, all of them. My email address is chris@pirillo.com maybe you've got further tips. There maybe just want to give out some general reminders, and spur people to get to the point where they are actually talking care of things, instead of just thinking about talking care of things, that's what stops people. You realize that, it's not doing the work, it's thinking about doing a work and then never doing it, or talking about doing it, then never doing it. Doing it is I swear 10% of it, just doing it, and then if it didn't work the right way, you do it again, and if you don't do it again, well, then you are either lazy, or you are just not proud of the work that you do. Find your workflow, find what works for you, stick with it, be consistent, don't start one system, then drop it two days later, then pick up a new one and then drop that a week later, stick with it. I am not procrastinating, okay, you want me to finish the video, fine. You got my email address chris@pirillo.com, and you know we were chatting, right? We're typically talking tech, getting things done 24 hours a day. Speaker: I have got another thing. Chris Pirillo: Oh, okay, guess I was glad. Speaker: The system that I use, is called active procrastination. Chris Pirillo: And how does that work? Speaker: Basically it works by, you procrastinate from doing the very big project, by doing the smaller ones, the easier ones first. So you are actually doing work, but you are still procrastinating at the same time. Chris Pirillo: I see. I don't want to end this video, because as soon as I end the video, then we're going to do a give away, I wanted to wait until we had like more people watching us live. Right now we've only got 630 people watching us live. We'll do it later, we'll do the give away later. Speaker: I never procrastinate. Chris Pirillo: I would do it later, this is not that big a deal, if it's that big a deal, you guys really want me to do the give away, fine. You are watching this video possibly not live, and if you are, then I bet you're really disappointed, because you procrastinated stopping by our website, which is at live. pirillo.com, See you later, maybe.