 Okay guys, I'm talking about procrastination again my my favorite topic. I think this is gonna be helpful because many people obviously are day-to-day schedules for many of us have been changed with all the the difficult Challenges we're all facing right now that changes Maybe working from home more. I'm gonna give you a few tips. Okay. I'm gonna give you a few tips in terms of how you can stay productive and really Really be deliberate and conscious and happy as you're making your your your your day More more productive So the number one tip I'm gonna say here is to be conscious to be deliberate about your choices Okay, so start off your day with well, what kind of a day do I want this to be for me? Do I want it to be a passive day where I'm reacting to things or do I want it to be more deliberate? Deliberate with what with deliberate with okay, there's gonna be work goals, you know You could be working from home for your business To be honest most of the people I work with are self-employed So they're kind of always have that huge amount of autonomy over decision-making but You're talking about Deliberate with my work deliberate with my exercise deliberate with time with my family deliberate with My relaxation time whatever that might be So to make conscious choices have some kind of a schedule for yourself. Okay It's tip number two when you're working from home and you're trying to stay productive is reverse things So one of the main things I first identify with people when I'm working with them on procrastination Is show me a schedule that you've made up for yourself It's usually the exact opposite of what they think I'm going to say But they'll show me a schedule and it'll sit to work from here to here work from there to there work from there to there And all I see is work work work work work on their schedule By the way, this is someone who procrastinates so it should be your first clue as to how effective that approach is the problem with that is it's It's not motivating I Get them to do something called motivational scheduling so Take out your day, and you're looking at the hours you have available break them up into half hour blocks Maybe first thing you're going to write down is where am I going to have fun? What does it look like and if you don't know what it's going to look like you're just going to write down relax relax relax consciously and liberally Right, so now you're looking at your chart and you're thinking well, okay However busy I get at least I have guaranteed time for myself there Two hours three hours, however long you need when you schedule that in for yourself huge huge boost your motivation What that also does is number three it's kind of ties in with number three and number three is to have boundaries with your work Having the schedule like that means well look I'm going to have to my have to do items are usually for work But now they're going to become I will I have to relax. I have to stop. I Have to have fun And that creates boundaries because no longer. Can you have this thing where well? I'm working when will I stop working? When I'm finished some arbitrary random vague time in the future No, that's not going to work. That's a recipe for disaster. Okay, especially if you're doing that approach day after day You need boundaries Another way to understand boundaries is this Ask yourself this question. Who's more important you or your work? It's a serious question. It's not a rhetorical question I want you to answer that as you're watching this video right now Who's more important you or your work? You know, there shouldn't really be any hesitation in that answer You are and always will be and you're more important in your work And you're more important than any side project you have or hobby or you name it You come first And when you set that out as the the starting point everything else will fall around you Okay, but that has to be your star point. That's your boundary a boundary could also look like look after this point in my day I'm not working anymore. I'm stepping away from it. Okay having those boundaries makes you far more productive You'll get more work done in the time you have available You don't have this endless day or work can drop in anywhere It's too vague and it doesn't leave you enough space for you to be separate from those goals in that work What number am I on I can't remember what number I'm on four or five But I'm gonna give you one other other tip here from for procrastination if you want to learn all the tips in this You can go to my website dr. Dave from moe.com. I have a complete I have a full book on this and a full video course that will show you everything But I'm going to give you another tip here because this video should be a standalone video if you don't want to get the courses or the book introduce something called Consequences that this is the hardest tip of all. It's the most advanced one and it's outlined in the in the course, but I'm going to give you a sense of what I'm talking about Let's say You say it yourself. I'm going to start some work at 10 a.m. Or Doesn't matter what type 2 p.m. Whatever it is and you say, okay. Well, that's that's that 2 p.m. Rolls around and you're not there You're not doing it. You're you've decided. Well, sure. Look, I could Watch another episode of that show What you've done there is procrastinate, right? That's almost a definition of procrastination so what you need to do is Install or implement some kind of a negative outcome for when that happens now How the heck do you do that? You can't get someone to follow you around and throw a bucket of cold water on you Every time you do it, right? That's not that's not practical here's the secret What if You don't show up, so let's say you don't show up What I tell people to do is don't allow yourself to do any more Work related to that goal for the rest of the day Now that's going to scare people when they hear that. Well, I have to do the work You do maybe you do maybe there'll be consequences. I'm not doing it But what you'll do if you do that approach and do it day after day as soon as I procrastinate and break a promise to myself I Have to leave it a message goes through to you that there's a few things I can do I can either relax or I can either work, but I can't procrastinate I can in fact I can relax and And do non related work non work related stuff as much as I want really and you can But you have to do them consciously Consciously remember earlier. I said about being conscious in your day If you implement that strategy your your your mind the procrastinator side of it gets a message like what? I'm not allowed to procrastinate anymore That's what that means effectively do it once and you okay and implement what I'm saying your mind will go that was strange Didn't like that It'll feel don't easy If you do that the next day and implement that consequence it well, I can't do it now Maybe you'll procrastinate that day to day three four five and onwards you won't procrastinate anymore Your mind gets a message This guy's serious and there are serious consequences to every time I Put off a piece of work that I had said I would do which is procrastinate Right you need to train yourself out of the option of putting it off like that If it's a chronic thing that you see coming up again and again Quick video guys. Hope that was helpful. Take care of yourself and put yourself first