Kevin Kruse

So if you can't delete it, delegate it, do it right now, then schedule time for it right then and there. And I mean, it sounds corny. It's worked for me. And I'm just getting great feedback from people who have adopted this system. And for some, maybe they're going to check it twice a day. Others, maybe it's four times a day. Maybe it should be 25 minutes for you instead of 21 minutes for me.

So if you can't delete it, delegate it, do it right now, then schedule time for it right then and there. And I mean, it sounds corny. It's worked for me. And I'm just getting great feedback from people who have adopted this system. And for some, maybe they're going to check it twice a day. Others, maybe it's four times a day. Maybe it should be 25 minutes for you instead of 21 minutes for me.

3-2-1-0 is just an easy way for me to remember the system. So tell me about the Harvard experiment thing. What was that all about?

3-2-1-0 is just an easy way for me to remember the system. So tell me about the Harvard experiment thing. What was that all about?

So as reported in Harvard Business Review, these two researchers went into companies, started watching what executives, middle managers were doing primarily, white-collar workers, and they realized that they had much more control over their tasks than the individual workers thought. So they taught them

So as reported in Harvard Business Review, these two researchers went into companies, started watching what executives, middle managers were doing primarily, white-collar workers, and they realized that they had much more control over their tasks than the individual workers thought. So they taught them

every morning to look at their to-do list or their calendar and ask three questions around drop, delegate, or redesign. So for drop, they were trained to ask, how valuable is this task? What would happen if I dropped it? For delegate, you ask, am I the only person who can do this task? Who else might be able to do it? And redesign says,

every morning to look at their to-do list or their calendar and ask three questions around drop, delegate, or redesign. So for drop, they were trained to ask, how valuable is this task? What would happen if I dropped it? For delegate, you ask, am I the only person who can do this task? Who else might be able to do it? And redesign says,

You know, how can I achieve roughly the same outcome, but in less time? Or, you know, what would I do if I only had half the available time to try to get this thing done? Just by training people to ask those three questions, on average, people were able to save six hours of desk work each week and two hours of meeting time. You know, can you just drop them completely?

You know, how can I achieve roughly the same outcome, but in less time? Or, you know, what would I do if I only had half the available time to try to get this thing done? Just by training people to ask those three questions, on average, people were able to save six hours of desk work each week and two hours of meeting time. You know, can you just drop them completely?

You know, can you delegate things? It is so powerful. And people will say, I don't have team members reporting to me. I can't delegate anything. You know, delegating to me is just another form of outsourcing. So whether it's you're a solopreneur and you're hiring a VA, you're a stay-at-home parent and have decided to hire the teenager to mow your lawn, these are powerful tools.

You know, can you delegate things? It is so powerful. And people will say, I don't have team members reporting to me. I can't delegate anything. You know, delegating to me is just another form of outsourcing. So whether it's you're a solopreneur and you're hiring a VA, you're a stay-at-home parent and have decided to hire the teenager to mow your lawn, these are powerful tools.

So drop, delegate, redesign ended up on average saving eight hours of time each week. Long before this book, you know, was even an idea, I had a mentor who was one of the ones who started to teach me the right way to think about time and productivity. He went on, he's an entrepreneur. He ended up selling his last company to IBM for $1.3 billion. And this guy, I mean, he was never frazzled.

So drop, delegate, redesign ended up on average saving eight hours of time each week. Long before this book, you know, was even an idea, I had a mentor who was one of the ones who started to teach me the right way to think about time and productivity. He went on, he's an entrepreneur. He ended up selling his last company to IBM for $1.3 billion. And this guy, I mean, he was never frazzled.

He walked slowly. You know, he had time for everybody. When he was with you, he was fully present. And one of the pieces of advice he gave me is that when I look at all the things I'm supposed to get done, he said, you know, most people look and say, how can I get this thing done? Or how can I get it done in less time? He says, I take the eye out of it. He says, How can this thing get done?

He walked slowly. You know, he had time for everybody. When he was with you, he was fully present. And one of the pieces of advice he gave me is that when I look at all the things I'm supposed to get done, he said, you know, most people look and say, how can I get this thing done? Or how can I get it done in less time? He says, I take the eye out of it. He says, How can this thing get done?

And he says, as soon as you talk about, it's not about, you know, it's just the result. How can I get this result or how can this result occur? How can this result happen and take yourself even out of it? It opens up a whole bunch of new possibilities. Okay, so we're running out of time. So this last question, procrastination is kind of the enemy of self-discipline.

And he says, as soon as you talk about, it's not about, you know, it's just the result. How can I get this result or how can this result occur? How can this result happen and take yourself even out of it? It opens up a whole bunch of new possibilities. Okay, so we're running out of time. So this last question, procrastination is kind of the enemy of self-discipline.

You talk about your idea for the cure to procrastination is time traveling to defeat your future self. The time travel trick is a tool that we can use when we're finding that we're procrastinating on the significant items, you know, whether that be

You talk about your idea for the cure to procrastination is time traveling to defeat your future self. The time travel trick is a tool that we can use when we're finding that we're procrastinating on the significant items, you know, whether that be