Have a SENSE of URGENCY
Last night (late last night) my wife asked me to do something with a piece of her art on this Blog. I got right up and headed to my office. She said, “You don’t have to do it now, just be sure to remember it”. My reply was, “Doing things now is my way of remembering to do them”. It only took me a few minutes to do it. It is so easy to put off doing things that are not urgent, and then when a bunch of them become urgent all at once it’s “stress time”. You may even find yourself being in a state where you have so much to do that you do nothing at all.

Overload
Things done under stress are just not done as well. That’s one of the things I love about Sundays. That’s my creative day; it’s the day nobody is asking me to do something. It’s the day that I had “time” to write all of my books. It’s a great day for me to get things done, and done well.
Today’s technology has provided us with many tools to be organized, and remember to do things. Outlook Reminders for example will put an intended “to do task” in your face as often as you want it to. The problem with these high tech programs is that they also make procrastination as easy as accomplishment. With the click of a key you can move a task that you wanted to do this morning to tomorrow morning, then the next, and the next, until it becomes urgent and you HAVE TO Do It Now.
In Success Made Easy I say, (something like) “It takes less time to do it than to decide if to do it”. Or, as the late great W. Clement Stone said, “When deciding when to do something, just DO IT NOW!” That works for me. Give it a try. 

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