10xTalk With Joe Polish And Dan Sullivan

Do you ever find yourself procrastinating? Does your thinking have something to do with it? Dan Sullivan shares the two biggest indicators that show where you are procrastinating and introduces The Procrastination Priority™ – a simple 4-step process that shows you what’s holding you back and gives you back your energy.

Dan Sullivan is the co-founder of Strategic Coach, author of over 30 publications, a visionary, innovator, and gifted conceptual thinker. Dan has over 35 years’ experience as a highly regarded speaker, consultant, strategic planner, and coach to entrepreneurial individuals and groups.

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Dan in this episode:

Dan shares the two biggest indicators that show where you are procrastinating and how to overcome them so that you free up your time, energy, and create freedom for yourself.
The Procrastination Priority™: A simple 4-step process that shows you what’s holding you back and gives you back your energy.
The 4 C’s to upleveling your confidence so that you can achieve your biggest goals.
Most people think procrastinating is a negative attribute. Dan explains how to shift your perspective so that you can use procrastination to achieve more and have greater success.

Show Notes

There are two different mindsets in entrepreneurs when they encounter someone who is ahead of them.
Potential is a way of manipulating people into thinking where they are is not sufficient.
“You are always operating at 100% of your mindset ceiling.” -Dan Sullivan
Very few people step back and observe how their thinking works.
Your growth as an entrepreneur is about going from one mindset ceiling to another.
Every time you get the next mindset ceiling, your performance and achievement will automatically increase.
Procrastination is a secret mindset.
We tend to compare our insides to other people’s outsides.
Your biggest procrastinations can be the vehicle for telling you what the most importants that you want to are.
Procrastination is often felt as a moral failing.
Procrastination uses the word “should” or “shouldn’t”.
The activities that you can procrastinate in within your personal and work life.
Your biggest source of procrastination is often where you are acting as a bottleneck.
Procrastinations are enormous sources of trapped energy. 16:30
“The energy that you feel that you ‘waste’ in procrastination is never lost, it just isn’t available to you right now.” -Dan Sullivan
Your procrastination will establish your priority for the next day.
“The only way you can not be a procrastinator is to simply cease having goals.” -Dan Sullivan
Pick the three things that you feel would give you the most energy once completed or that have the most people relying on.
“Telling the truth always has a big energy boost.” -Dan Sullivan
“The moment you want a courage free future is the moment you start dying.” -Dan Sullivan
Courage comes before Capability and Confidence, Courage is never triggered until you have Commitment.
The reason why practice with live grenades is the most interesting part of basic training.
“Fear is wetting your pants, courage is what you’re supposed to do with wet pants.” -Dan Sullivan
You have to start with Commitment which means establishing a deadline for when something will be true.
Procrastination is like sensory deprivation, it puts you into the no-zone.
There is nothing slowing you down other than not telling the truth about your procrastination.
Procrastination is the raw material for progress. Every mindset ceiling is an area where you are procrastinating.
Children as young as 8 years old can benefit from this exercise.
Dean Jackson’s most common report card comment in elementary school.
Procrastination Priority is one of the mindset gateways that can have the most impact on your life that Dan has come across.

People Mentioned

Dean Jackson

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