Some days, I like to see myself as a decent executor.

But really, most of the time, I need to admit that I am pretty lame.

Especially when comes the boring unexciting tasks.

The administrative stuff.
The things I know I have to do but I keep procrastinating on it.
Even the things I am exciting about but never start doing.

To be fair, my days are pretty full, and developing a remote island from scratch implies a ton of decision making, and time consuming tasks.

But I do have time.

I just don’t take the time for some important tasks that would make a significant impact on my business.

So I came up with a simple method to kick my own butt and get those things done.

I called it the “do it now”.

Early in the morning, while drinking my coffee, I allocate 1h of my time to get rid of the boring stuff.

It doesn’t matter if I “feel like doing it”.

It’s the time to specifically do all the stuff that annoys the F out of me.

By having a dedicate time for it, I no longer have excuses.

I can’t get away with “I could do something more impactful with my time”, or “I could do it tomorrow anyway”.

Because this time is the specific time for those stuff.

Just one hour of solving things that end up taking me 5-10 minutes,
although I have been procrastinating on it for weeks or months.

And in the end, it feels good to get them out of my mind.

Because it’s done.

So I can move forward.

When you keep something you know you have to do undone, you ruin your mental bandwidth.

It’s there, in the back of your mind, hitting you at times, reminding you you need to do it.

Yet you keep not doing it, so it stays there, sucking up your mental space for weeks or months.

But when you just get it done, you do it once, and then bye-bye.

Get your mental space back.

Just allow some time in your day for those things.

And “do it now”.