Knock on Wood...

But Shawn gave me some great insight into something that he is doing to help work on procrastination. It has helped give me some peace and get a few things done (but today is only day two).
Shawn had heard the story about Ivy Lee.
Ivy Lee went into the Charles Schwab corporation and told them,
"If I can make your employees more productive in three months, pay me what you think it's worth."
He introduced every employee to the 6-thing list...
Three months later he came back and they paid him $35,000 for the improvement. What? $35,000 doesn't seem like much for one day of talking with the employees?
They paid him $35,000 almost 100 years ago when the average worker was earning $2 PER DAY.
Wow. Even with my poor math skills knowing that people today earn a minimum of $5.85 per hour... so for an 8 hour day that's around $45 per day... over 22 times what the average worker earned back then... so $35,000 would be $770,000. Wow.

So here's how it goes:
The following day, Ivy Lee met with Charles Schwab's management executives, spending only ten minutes with each in order to tell them:
Ivy Lee: "I want you to promise me that for the next ninety days, before leaving your office at the end of the day, you will make a list of the six most important things you have to do the next day and number them in their order of importance."
Astonished Executives: "That it?"
Ivy Lee: "That's it. Scratch off each item after finishing it, and go on to the next one on your list. If something doesn't get done, put it on the following day's list."

And that...

Is the rest of the story.