<p><strong> Scenario: </strong><em>"Dude, just do it. You'll win. Yay!"</em></p> <ol> <li><strong> Imagine staring up a freakish mountain.</strong> It's big, it's tall, it's freaky, and it's scary. You don't wanna go up, now -- you don't wanna fail.</li> <li><strong> Now, imagine starting at a bunny hill.</strong> It's small, it's kiddy-like, and it's oh-so-easy-to-accomplish. You could do it with your eyes closed.</li> </ol> <p>Typical Entrepreneur Elemo imagines his workload as if he's staring up some big, freakish, Everest-like mountain. So:</p> <ol> <li>He avoids his work as much as possible.</li> <li>"It's too scary now! Maybe the workload will scare me less later!" he subconsciously thinks.</li> <li><span class="highlight">That leaves him little room to really kick butt on his work, resulting in mediocrity-after-mediocrity.</span></li> </ol> <p>Uh-freakin-oh. What to do, what to do?</p> <h3>Reverse your mindset.</h3> <p><span class="highlight">Instead of seeing your pile of work as some Everest-colossal-like mountain, tackle your plethora of tasks by completing one, easy, feasible bunny hill.</span> Ask yourself the secret sauce: <span class="highlight"><strong> "What can my badass accomplish in 60 seconds?"</strong></span></p> <h2>Piles of Work Starts With a Bunny</h2> <p>Freakishly efficient people accomplish their freakish workload by starting with one small, easy, bunny-hill-like, accomplishable thing that they do in minutes. <strong>Bite-sized chunks.</strong> Easy, simple, and digestible. Why? <span class="highlight"><strong> If you accomplish something in 60 seconds, you build more momentum to accomplish more stuff -- then some more, and some more -- until you're working like a rapid ostrich on crack.</strong></span></p> <h2>The Power of the First Bite-Sized Chunk</h2> <p>Imagine a big-giant flywheel -- similar to what Jim Collins describes in his bestseller.</p> <ol> <li>Initially, you can barely move the giant flywheel.</li> <li>But, as you continue to push some more, the increasing momentum makes the flywheel rotate faster -- then faster.</li> <li>You push some more, and it goes even faster.</li> </ol> <p><strong>Accomplishing your massive tasks works the same way:</strong></p> <ol> <li>At first, you'll see minimal-but-promising results.</li> <li> <span class="highlight">But as you complete accomplish an initial task, the follow-up task becomes easier.</span></li> <li> You complete that, then the third, fourth, fifth, etc., becomes increasingly oh-so much easier.</li> </ol> <p><span class="highlight">After a while, you start seeing yourself leveraging the work momentum you've created to complete task-after-task-after-sexy-task.</span> "Hey, this ain't bad. Oh, no. Let's accomplish something else!" you tell your bad-self. Follow-up work becomes freakishly easier, resulting in a cherished: <strong>"@#$, wtf! I'm one productive mofo!"</strong> <span class="highlight">From a 60-second bite-sized start, you prep yourself to become one vigorous, focused, efficient mofo that chases down tasks -- and beats them into utter submission.</span></p> <h2>The 60-Second Trick: It's Oh-So Magical</h2> <p>Feel like you're procrastinating? If at any point -- in your fabulous life -- you ever feel like an unproductive crazy person, try the trick:</p> <h3><span class="highlight"><strong>Accomplish something in 60 seconds.</strong></span></h3> <p><br /> Then, see the resulting magic: You'll accomplish more -- then, increasingly, more. Becoming the efficient mofo you've always wanted to be:</p> <h2>"What can I accomplish in 60 seconds?"</h2> 2007-06-24T22:20:00-07:00 true 556 how-to-end-procrastination 0 2009-11-06T21:45:46-08:00