Coach Raphael Djine argues that procrastination is the difference between wealthy and poor people. He says a businessperson who can't decide in five minutes shouldn't be in business, and that postponing tasks steals your time. The fix: treat everything as urgent and finish your daily list before the day ends.
Chapters
Number eight, procrastination. Procrastination. I always advise all my students: whatever you need to do now, do now. Work with a sense of urgency. Let it be your habit. Let it be part of you. Don't tell somebody I'll call you in five minutes and hang the phone. Let's talk about this in 5 minutes. Unless it's something you have to go and think about it, and hang up the phone and just sit down and do nothing. Talk about it for that 5 minutes and be done with it. Matter of fact, the difference between the poor and the rich person, it gets down to the use of time. And whenever you push things, you report things to next time, you are actually killing your time. You are reduced the time you have to accomplish things on earth. Whatever you have to do, you have to do and you have to do now. Donald Trump said something very important. He said a man that cannot make a decision within— business decision within 5 minutes is not sweet to do business. The urgency. sense of urgency. Get things done. Don't do what you need to do today tomorrow. Never push to tomorrow. Before you lay your head down, make sure whatever, whatever was on your agenda for today is done, as much as it depends on you. Don't report to tomorrow.
