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I Procrastinate Too… This Is How I Avoid It

24 min episode · 2 min read

Episode

24 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Productivity, Investing, Fundraising & VC

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Key Takeaways

  • Peak Performance Timing: Schedule hardest tasks during your best hours—Porterfield does video work and important tasks between 10AM-noon when energy peaks, saving lighter review tasks for afternoon when focus naturally declines.
  • Tiger Time Blocking: Reserve calendar blocks weeks in advance for focused project work, treating them as unmovable meetings. Limit sessions to 30 minutes-2 hours maximum, ensuring Asana tasks match calendar entries so to-do lists remain achievable.
  • Anxiety Management Through Action: Tasks circling in your head create mental clutter and delay. Make nagging items your first morning priority to clear headspace. Ask executive assistants or team members to hold you accountable on delayed commitments.
  • Zone of Genius Evaluation: Apply delegation, automation, or elimination to tasks outside your strengths. If most days feel like drudgery rather than energizing work, restructure responsibilities immediately—building businesses on your terms requires loving most daily work.

What It Covers

Amy Porterfield shares her personal strategies for overcoming procrastination and staying productive, including identifying peak performance hours, using Tiger Time blocking, delegating tasks outside her zone of genius, and maintaining accountability systems.

Key Questions Answered

  • Peak Performance Timing: Schedule hardest tasks during your best hours—Porterfield does video work and important tasks between 10AM-noon when energy peaks, saving lighter review tasks for afternoon when focus naturally declines.
  • Tiger Time Blocking: Reserve calendar blocks weeks in advance for focused project work, treating them as unmovable meetings. Limit sessions to 30 minutes-2 hours maximum, ensuring Asana tasks match calendar entries so to-do lists remain achievable.
  • Anxiety Management Through Action: Tasks circling in your head create mental clutter and delay. Make nagging items your first morning priority to clear headspace. Ask executive assistants or team members to hold you accountable on delayed commitments.
  • Zone of Genius Evaluation: Apply delegation, automation, or elimination to tasks outside your strengths. If most days feel like drudgery rather than energizing work, restructure responsibilities immediately—building businesses on your terms requires loving most daily work.

Notable Moment

Porterfield admits changing an Asana task due date approximately 50 times to avoid one dreaded item, illustrating how even successful entrepreneurs struggle with procrastination on tasks they dislike, making self-awareness and systems essential.

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Episode Transcript

Delegation, automation, or elimination, those three words are incredibly important if you find that every day you're dredging, like, I don't even wanna get out of bed. I'm not even excited about what I'm working on. I mean, my friends, we're building our businesses on our terms. So if most days you don't feel good about what you're working on, we gotta change what you're working on. I'm Amy Porterfield, ex corporate girl turned CEO of a multi 7 figure business. But it wasn't all that long ago that I lacked the confidence, the budget, and the time to focus on growing my small but mighty business. Fast forward past many failed attempts and lessons learned, and you'll see the business I have today, one that changes lives and gives me more freedom than I ever thought possible, one that used to only exist as a daydream. I created the Online Marketing Made Easy Podcast to give you simple, actionable, step by step strategies to help you do the same. If you're an ambitious entrepreneur or one in the making who's looking to create a business that makes an impact and a life you love, you're in the right place, friend. Let's get started. Well, hey there, friend. Welcome back to Online Marketing Made Easy, and thanks for stopping in to hang out with me because I've got actually a very special guest for today's episode. So Stacy is joining me and she is my social media manager, and we're changing things up a bit. And I'm going to be interviewed by Stacy about how I deal with procrastination and feeling stuck. Because listen, I procrastinate all the time and I get stuck all the time. So I feel like that's might be you as well. So I thought maybe we should talk about it. This is a shorty episode. It's gonna go by quickly, but I thought it was extra special because I have Stacy here. So, Stacy, say hello and tell everyone a little bit about your role on the team. Yeah. Of course. So first, I'm so excited to be here. I've actually never done a podcast before, so it feels right that I get to do my very first one with the Amy Porterfield. I'm so excited. So as Amy mentioned, I'm her social media manager, and I can't believe it. I've been on team Porterfield for almost three years now. Can you believe that? No. It feels like yesterday. I remember your interview. I remember it like it was just yesterday. Exactly. But, yeah, as Amy's a social media manager, I really focus on our organic social media strategy and all the content creation. And I'm also in charge of making Amy do all the silly things for Instagram reels, so she really loves that about me. It's true. I have to say one thing that's special about Stacy and why we chose her to interview me for this episode, she's really easy to be …

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