Okay, I've been procrastinating on dealing with this next topic. It is procrastination. You know, you're not supposed to procrastinate. But everyone procrastinates on some things. Not all procrastination is equal. Adam Grant, the famed business writer and best selling author and Ted speaker has a whole Ted lecture on how many of the absolute best inventions the best papers, the best thinkers are notorious for procrastinating.

His theory. And I think there's a lot to this is, by procrastinating your brain, your subconscious continues to play. With the challenges you continue to seek new solutions, you come up with more innovations. Whereas the person who just says oh, that's the assignment for the next semester end of the semester. Let me start now and finish it and check it off. isn't going to have as much creativity as many new insights because their subconscious, the rest of their brain will not have been playing with innovations and new ideas for as long.

So sometimes procrastination can be great. Mark Twain stopped writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer he for a couple of years, he kind of lost interest in it, he lost his Mojo his steam, he waited for more inspiration to come back then he finished it and wrote a classic that is still read so many years later, by schoolchildren all over the world in the English speaking world. So procrastinating for two years on something you would normally say that's a horrible idea. It worked for Mark Twain. You've got to distinguish between areas that's going to help you or hurt you. If you procrastinate, brushing your teeth for two years.

Your teeth will turn black and fall out and it will happen extraordinarily negative effects on your health. But sometimes whether it's a great novel a great business idea solution to a major societal problem. procrastinating means you're just giving yourself more time to think. And you can actually make it better. But let's not get ourselves. For most of us.

Procrastination deals with tasks we know we should do. But we just don't want to get around to it. We know we should send this memo to this client is expecting it, but it's boring. We know we should go through the database of calling our clients five or 10 a day but we just don't like doing it because we don't want to bother people. We know we should clean out our email in our inbox, but we don't get around to it and next thing you know, it's this long. There's so many tasks in life, that it's not critical that you do it this second This moment this morning or even today, but if you procrastinate too long, there are serious negative effects.

And that's where you've got to decide what's important. And what isn't. You tell yourself, there's no time for it. Not true. All you're doing is saying, this is important. For my time, always time.

For anything that's important. My advice is you got to look at the task at hand and ask yourself, what's making you not want to do it? Maybe it's not really important. Sometimes you can procrastinate. And a couple of months go by and you realize what you thought was important wasn't. But sometimes that can just dig you deeper in a hole.

If it's paying your bills and you procrastinate, you haven't solved any problems. By procrastinating you now have extra fines tossed on that will make it even harder to pay your bills because you now have late fees. So you gotta be ready. rational about this and to figure out is this something I can delay without penalty? Is this something I can delay and make better? Is this something I can delay and maybe it won't end up being important.

But for everything else, you've got to figure out when do I need to do it and just do it