There can be two types of people, the seed planter or the fireman. The firemen are those that wait until there's a problem and go to put out the fire. The seed planters are those that plant the seed in preparation before there's a problem. The huge difference between the two lies on how they view and manage their time. With emphasis on the significance factor more than urgency and importance.

Rory Vaden is a graduate from the University of Denver. He is the co-founder of southwestern consulting. He is a top performing conspiracy speaker from Toastmasters World Championship several years ago. He's the best-selling author of two different books. And he also shares a birthday with Kevin Spacey and Sandra Bullock. Above all, a fantastic husband. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book called Procrastinate on Purpose. Specifically, about five permissions to multiply your time.

Great Service

John de Julius, who is an author and speaker, has a book called What's the Secret. In this book, he talks about great service. It is about providing something that is so hyper specific to one person. It's not giving out a rose to everybody who walks in your store, but it's doing something hyper specific to that person. And this was one of the best examples of it, where you're listening to the podcast, and then it occurs to you, and then you actually do it.

Getting out of Debt

Being out of debt is a huge multiplier, and people don't realize how impactful it is. When you are debt free, it allows you to do what you want to do, and not as much what you have to do when you're in debt. For once you're out of debt, have a three-to-six-month emergency fund, and pay your house off, your whole life changes. Getting debt free is much more than freeing yourself from financial worry. It frees you to do whatever it is that brings you passion in life. And that's a huge moment. People massively underestimate the impact of doing that. Being debt free is one of the most important and significant transformations that anybody can make.

Types of Procrastination

The book, Take the Stairs, was all about overcoming procrastination, improving self-discipline, and helping people do the things they know they should be doing, even when they don't feel like doing them. In the book, we talked about three different types of procrastination. First is classic procrastination, which is consciously delaying what you know you should be doing. And that's what we all think of when we hear the word. Second, creative avoidance, which is basically creating stuff for yourself to do. So, you can avoid doing the thing you really need to do, but you don't feel like doing. And third, priority dilution is different from the first two because it has nothing to do with being lazy, apathetic or disengaged, it actually affects the chronic overachievers, what happens though is that as you become more successful, you have more and more things coming to you for attention, more people to take care of more responsibilities, more moving pieces of your business. And your priorities naturally start to dilute.

Time Management is Emotional

Everything that you read in time management isn't just logical, it's emotional. And how we choose to spend our time has much to do with feelings of guilt, and anxiety and worry and stress and the desire to feel important and the desire to feel successful. And the desire to feel included as it does with anything. And yet nobody ever talks about the emotional side of productivity and time management. And so, we realized that that is a big element. And that's different in the world today. And that's where the subtitle “Five Permissions to Multiply Your Time” really comes from.

Time Management Thinking

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