Procrastination

Last week I gave you all a great blog post on Michael Hyatt's blog to check out about time management.
It's been one week of me attempting to touch my email messages once and only once.
Now, after I have read the email I have to decide to take the appropriate action:

1. Do
2. Defer
3. File or
   
4. Delete it.

If you want to delve into this principle more, read this post where Michael Hyatt writes more about his work flow system and how to do, defer, file or delete.

This has been an eye opening discipline and one that showed me clearly that I am more of a procrastinator than I had imagined.
I've started to adopt this simple principle with my home emails as well. I have noticed that my mind seems less cluttered as I don't have such a huge list of "oh yes - I have to read that email" or "I have __ amount of emails I need to take care of" It's amazing how such a small thing creates such room if even in my mental space. I also like the feeling of satisfaction that comes with accomplishing a goal.


This seems like a simple principle but one that I would encourage you to try and let us know if this helped you or not. Times are busy and as leaders we need to use it wisely and efficiently in order to maximize our impact here on earth.