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Conquer Procrastination, Transform Goals into Action with Proven Strategies · The Property Unleashed Podcast

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Five ways to overcome procrastination.
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: I have to say I am a champion when it comes to procrastination, so I do have to use these five methods that I'm going to share with you today to help me get out there and, of course, achieve the results that I'm going to share with you today to help me get out there and, of course, achieve the results that I want, and, of course, I'm always striving to achieve those results as well.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: So one of the things that you do want to make sure that you do is write down, journal everything that it is that you're trying to do, so that you can go back and review it, because we never feel at times that we are moving forward, even when we are, and if we have nothing to be able to review those times, then we will struggle.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: So, firstly, step one, if you like.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: I would say anything that you're trying to achieve, goal wise.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: You want to break down into bite sized trunks?
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Ok, you want to make sure that you're not just focusing on the end result that could potentially be a long way away.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: You wanna be focusing on what is the first thing that I need to do to start me moving forward, and I like to look at this as a step-by-step process where you're looking maybe even to go up a ladder.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: So if you thought what's the first step on the ladder gonna be, well, I need to do this, okay.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: What's the second step?
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: What's the third step?
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: And then potentially, as you're walking up that ladder, you will get to the peak, you will get to the goal, you will get where you want to.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: Now what I tend to do is I tend to then find another length of that ladder and I never stop.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: It always feels like I'm always continuing and I bet you any money you've done the same thing, I bet.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: You've set goals, lofty goals up there, and then, when you've got close to those goals, all of a sudden you've forgotten about that, because that goal is quite small.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: There's a bigger picture, a bigger goal above it, and you do pull out that length of the ladder again and you continue again.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: So just continue to break it down, don't get overwhelmed, but make sure, obviously, you review what you have been doing.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: At number two, make sure that you set specific and realistic targets.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, tasks on a day-to-day level.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: You'll have heard me say this before, but you want to be winning the day, okay?
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: Andy Fussellet speaks about this on his podcast and things, and it's a methodology that I've taken into my own business, which is try and make sure that you win the day.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: So he recommends that you set out five tasks and you hit those tasks each and every day and if you do, you can tick it off and win the day.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: I like to break that down a bit further Now.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: We're all busy.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: We've all got things that can get in our way Family things, business things, work things.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: It can be very, very tricky to actually get the results you want.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: What I say is to have three things.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: Keep it easy.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: Trust me Again, we'll have all had those to-do lists that are massive, that are this big, okay, and we're trying to do all of that in a day, and we get to the end of the day and we're like I haven't even ticked anything off.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: I've ticked two things off.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm such a failure, I'm such a loser.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: I'm never going to be able to achieve what everybody else is.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Because we put too much pressure on ourselves.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: So what I say to you is have three things.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: Now one thing has to be done you have to do.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: Are some serious circumstances out there can achieve one task a day.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Why do you have three, then?
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: Mark?
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: Well, because sometimes you can only do so much on one task and you're waiting for outside sources other people, to do things and stuff.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: So if that's the case, you can move on to task two.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: Now you might get task one done as well and still have a lot of the day left and feel really energetic and that you want to get more done.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Then you can go for task two and potentially task three.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: But three tasks a day if you can get through those is amazing.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: But just hit one, hit one task.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: If I get that one thing done that I've set out today, I can give it my tick and I can win the day and start stacking the wins.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: Because you're telling yourself that you are a winner, that you can achieve everything that you're trying to achieve and push yourself forward out there.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: And I love this because I love to tick or cross things off to say I've done it, I've successfully achieved each and every day what I want to do.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: And then you start to get on a run.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: If you document this, keep it in a diary, keep it in your phone notes, whatever, but start documenting it so that you can see.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Each and every time, you'll start to get up a winning feeling and you'll start to say to yourself oh my God, it's getting close to the end of the day.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: I haven't done that one thing yet.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: I need to get that done because I don't want to stop my winning streak.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: You start winning the day.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: You start winning the week.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: You start winning the week, you start winning the month that, of course and you start winning the months.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: You'll win the year.
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: In 12 months time, you'll be in a completely different position than you are right now.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: So set those specific targets and tasks, make them realistic and make sure that you can achieve them.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: Create a structured schedule A that means that you can realistically hit those targets.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: Plan out your weeks before you get there.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: Ok, things will change, diaries can change and things.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: Everybody's got busy schedules.
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: But spend maybe the Friday I like to do it on the Friday before the following week.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: Work out what I'm going to be doing that week.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: Look at my schedule.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: What is in the schedule, what's already there and what can I achieve.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: Don't say I've got one task to do.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: It's going to take you a full day.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: Yet you're going to be working for five days okay, and you set it on Monday.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: You can't do it Monday, can't do it Tuesday, and you know full well that you can't do it.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: Set it for a day when you can do it, potentially when you've got a day off.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, if you've got those one tasks and they are the things that you really want to do, but you've only got a limited amount of time on different days.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Set what you think you can do in that time scale, okay, as long as you are getting things done, you're all right.
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: But if you set yourself up for a failure and you do not schedule your calendar properly and ie make sure that your schedule is planned out before you start the day, before you start the week, that is critical to your success.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: It's all in the planning.
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: Everybody knows that.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: Nobody goes to battle, nobody goes on sports teams.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: They don't go without a plan.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Everybody has a game plan.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: Have a game plan for your life and it will supercharge your results.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: Of course, at number four, you can use some productivity hacks.
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, the 80-20 principle as well.
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: But what I like to do is I like to plan out my time.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I like to say right, I've got 20 minutes, I'm going to do nothing for 20 minutes than this one task.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: And let's get it nailed, a maximum of 60 minutes.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, if you can find 60 minutes a day to get one thing done, or maybe even three things done.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: If you've got those three tasks, you're laughing.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: But for that time, switch your phone off.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: What did he just say?
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Switch your phone off and put it in another room.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: Stick it on silent.
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: Don't have any notifications on anything.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: Switch everything else off so you can just focus on that one thing.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: Focus on that one thing.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: Don't be easily distracted.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: Go and have a 20-minute session with nothing else phasing you.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: You're just solidly working for 20 minutes and if you hit that and set a timer as well, which isn't on your phone, have a separate timer that's not going to have notifications and things like that on it, but set that timer and when you get it, reward yourself.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: Go and have a coffee, go and have something to eat, move around, go and have five minutes on your phone.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: If you're struggling, you know leaving your phone anywhere else, but make sure that you don't have any distractions on that.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: I'm terrible at this, absolutely terrible.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: So I really do have to put my phone outside of my office and then get on with it, and then I can go and have a look at my phone.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: I have an Apple watch.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: I have to turn all the notifications off on that.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: Everybody, every system, every technology device that we have around us wants your attention.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: It gets paid for your attention with the apps and everything that are on there.
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: So lock it out.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Remember this is your business, this is your life and you want to lead the best life that you can possibly lead.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: So don't be easily distracted.
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: Get in there, have those sessions, focus on that one thing and, of course, get out there and do it.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: So one of the things that we could be procrastinating on could be fear, fear of failure, fear of getting out there trying to do something and it not working for us.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: Set us back.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: We'll hold us back.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: We'll stop us from becoming motivated and driven because we have this underlining problem.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: I say stop.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: Find out what it is.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: If you're sat there now and you want to start doing something, maybe you want to get out there and build your own business in whatever it is that you're looking at achieving, but you're not doing it for some reason.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: You know it's good, you've written about it, you've learned about it.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: You just need to take the actions now.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: But you're not taking the actions.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: You procrastinate.
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: You do maybe the fluffy things that don't really ever push you forward.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: Ask yourself why and be honest with yourself as well.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: Really honest with yourself.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: We all have it and a lot of the times it's just the moods that we're in when it comes to our own brain patterns and things.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: Some days we're up for it.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: We'll take on the world.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: We don't care if we make a mistake.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: We don't care if we fail.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Because we're going to get out there and we're going to do it.
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: And then we have a bad night's sleep or we have an argument with somebody, or we're just not really in a very good mood.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: We've got up a bit grumpy and all of a sudden our brains will start talking to us, start talking us out of why we should be doing things, of why we're doing this, why we're doing that.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: It's not your comfort zone to be doing this.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: Mark, sit back down, get back in your comfort zone, play on your phone, do the things that we enjoy doing, that are nice and safe.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Don't be pushing yourself out there.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Why, why would you push it?
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: All of these things go into our minds at different times.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: We'll have all had it at some point, but some people will ignore them.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, and it's about recognizing why you're getting them.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: So start writing down, start journalling why you are procrastinating, why.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: Why is it that I'm trying to do this and I just can't do it?
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: What is stopping me?
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm worried.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: I think it's a fear realistic.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: If I tell everybody I'm doing this and I don't do it, they'll all think I'm a liar, or I can't do it or it's just our minds.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: Most of the time and remember this most of the time, people aren't even thinking about you.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: They're thinking about them and what they're up to.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: So don't worry about what anybody else thinks.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Just remember.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: You can only control you, and by taking these actions, particularly on the days that you don't want to, taking these actions, particularly on the days that you don't want to, you will set yourself above and ahead of everybody else out there.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: I hope these five procrastination skills, tips, methods have helped you and I hope you've enjoyed this episode and I look forward to you joining me in the next episode.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: Why not now?