Procrastination is the enemy of the 12-hour week

There is one thing you need - without it, this system won't work

If you can eliminate procrastination, you’re well on your way to getting there.

I would never have gotten down to working 12 hours a week, if I hadn’t figured out I needed to do one thing.

It’s kind of doh! thing actually.

But for me… well, the thought didn’t really occur to me.

Freedom is everything

I had quit my day job in 1995.

I enjoyed my freedom. I wanted to do whatever I felt like that day.

That’s freedom, right?

If I had a book to write, then I did that. In fact, to hit the deadlines, I would also write books on days I didn’t feel like it. These days, I interrupted the work often by checking my emails…

With my joy of freedom, I didn’t restrict myself.

Planning, I figured, would be too much constraint.

Bad choice

That lack of planning resulted in one thing: lots of wasted time.

Time wasted, staring at my screen, thinking: what should I do today?

Time wasted, doing other things like checking my email, going to Facebook (that was back then), watching a video…

Even though I worked around 15 hours per day, 7 days a week, I could have condensed my “work” into 2-3 hours per day.

Slowly, I figured out a system that worked for me.

Find your system

You need to find the system that work for you. I’ll tell you what I’ve tried over the years, though.

• Scheduling hour by hour as recurring entries in my calendar (didn’t work)

• Writing down 3 things to do the same morning (didn’t work - it took me hours to write down those 3 things)

• Scheduling broad strokes as recurring entries in my calendar (didn’t work)

The system that works for me know is simple.

Here’s my working system

Every Sunday, I plan which info products I’m going to promote that week.

Then I add one big thing I must do that week. It can be write a PLR bundle or work on a course.

That’s it. Job done. After that, I go doing something interesting, playful and relaxing.

Nothing in my method to work only 12 hours a week would function without planning.

Nothing.

Believe me, I’ve tried. ;)