If you’ve ever thought that procrastinating was bad…listen to this now. In this episode Russell talks about mastering the fine art of procrastination. He talks about how procrastinating can actually help you get things done faster. Here are some fun things to listen for in today’s episode: Why Russell says it’s okay to procrastinate. How Russell used his procrastination skills to graduate from college. And why procrastinating means you have pressure and a timeline that forces you to get things done quickly, and as long as you do it the right way, its an awesome tool. So listen below to find out how you can be an expert procrastinator like Russell. ---Transcript--- Good morning everybody and welcome to marketing your car. All right, so the title of this podcast is one that I think is going to get met with some opposition, so it’s Mastering the Fine Art of Procrastination. We’ve always been told throughout our lives that we shouldn’t be procrastinating, like, “Don’t procrastinate. Don’t procrastinate.” We should be planning ahead and preparing and all these things. I agree to that to a point, but I also think that procrastination, if done correctly, will increase your productivity and help you to focus on just those things that are actually important. That is the title of this podcast. One of the reasons why is, in about 6 hours from now I am boarding a plane to fly on a weeklong trip to New Zealand, Australia, and then Phoenix. It was funny because I had people on Friday at the office like, “Hey, so you started packing yet?” I’m like, “No.” They’re like, “Oh, ho, ho, like you’re probably going to wait until Sunday to pack huh?” I’m like, “No, I’m going to wait until Monday to pack. I’m not leaving until Monday.” Some of you guys are probably thinking, “You probably packed this morning before you head into the office, right Russell?” I’m like, “No! My flight doesn’t leave for 6 hours, why would I start packing right now?” Okay, there’s some law, and I don’t know who’s the law is, Parato or some dude, I don’t think its Prato though, some dude. He’s got a law that basically says, “However much time you have to complete something, somehow magically, you will fill all that time up.” This is the problem with planners, they will say, “Hey, I’m leaving on a trip in a month,” and so for an entire month they will start packing. They waste so much time and energy and effort on the packing process that somehow they fill up the entire time with packing, and then they’ve wasted all that time. I want to do the opposite. I know that to pack, if I focus really, really hard, I’m looking at maybe 30 minutes. If I started packing on Friday, I’m looking at like probably 30-40 minutes on Friday and 30-40 minutes on Saturday, and 30-40 minutes on Sunday. Then today is when I’m actually flying out, I’m going to sit down and spend another 30 minutes making sure I have everything, right. I could have just done that once, but because I was planning I felt this desire to fill up space and time with all this crap that doesn’t even matter. This is probably why I struggled at school because it was always my philosophy in school where in school I think there’s … I think it is good to study a head of time, I probably would have remembered things better if I did. I did graduate from college, so my mom is proud of that. This is what I did. This is how I graduated college. All the entire semester long I would focus on wrestling and on dating girls and then we’d have final week. My first year was at BYU and they have this really cool thing called the testing center, and you could schedule out your finals any day you want. I’d like, Monday is my math final, Tuesday is science, Wednesday is whatever and I would take the final at the very end of the day. What I would do is on those days I’d wake up at like 6:00 in the morning, I would go down in the basement of my dorms and there was these little tiny room, and I’d lock myself in the room, I’d read the entire book