Rory Vaden talks about the 7 steps to achieving true success and his new book Take the Stairs on Fox & Friends:
Priority Dilution
April 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Efficiency isn’t your problem…Priority Dilution is your problem.
Priority Dilution™ is a new form of procrastination I identified in Take the Stairs that affects the very people who you think wouldn’t be procrastinators: the chronic overachievers.
It has nothing to do with being lazy, apathetic or disengaged – like traditional procrastination – but it’s the same net result: you delay on the day’s most important activities by allowing your attention to shift to less important but perhaps more urgent tasks.
A few of the problems we typically find in organizations affected by Priority Dilution™ include:
- Stifled innovation
- Burned out human capital
- Perpetuating miscommunication
- Failing projects and missed deadlines
- Disengaged and underutilized team members
- A culture of tremendous speed, stress and anxiety
- Wasted potential from people with specialized skills being caught up in insignificant minutiae
Often misunderstood, the root cause has nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with how you as a leader define and act on priorities. Contrary to how most organizations think, it’s not about doing more; it’s about doing what is right.
Anchor
April 4, 2013 By 2 Comments
Procrastination tries to hold me back. Each morning it attaches itself as an anchor to my dream. It keeps me getting more of what I’ve been getting and keeps me from getting more of what I’ve been wanting.
I can handle losing because I made a mistake. I can own failure because my strategy was outperformed. I can live with myself if my execution didn’t match my planning.
But I adamantly refuse to miss out on the opportunity because I simply didn’t get in the game. I will not lose because I did not try. That’s a coward and I am not a coward.
The competitor then, is not the foe I face on the field but the heathen I battle in my head.
And so I choose to simply overpower procrastination today.
It will be back again tomorrow – but I will defeat it then too because I am not a coward.
I know that you don’t cure procrastination; you decide to defeat it everyday.
I will do it today and I’ll do it again tomorrow. Watch me.
Rare New Form of Procrastination Identified
August 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
So you don’t consciously put off tasks for later. That doesn’t mean you’re not procrastinating, according to one management consultant.
Your laid-back college roommate may have been the kind to put off his paper until the last possible moment in favor of lolling about and enjoying life, but that’s not you.
You’ve been a Type A, hyperproductive person since long before you became a entrepreneur. You may be frantically busy, but at least you can congratulate yourself on having conquered procrastination, right?
Not so fast…
Click here to read the full article at Inc.com!
Take the Stairs on Sonoran Living (ABC 15 Arizona)
May 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The definition of success depends on who you are talking to. For some it means being married and having a happy family, for others it means climbing the corporate ladder.
No matter what it means to you, Rory Vaden the author of ‘Take The Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success,’ says there is one common denominator and that is self-discipline…
Click here to read more on ABC 15′s website!
WSMV “4 O’Clock Focus: Author advises facing life’s challenges head on”
May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A Nashville man says “taking the stairs,” or avoiding life’s shortcuts, is the secret to success. And his book about that very subject is already becoming a worldwide best seller.
Rory Vaden has spent the past two years literally taking the stairs everywhere from the Empire State Building to the CN Tower in Toronto.
But he is not just doing this for his health. Vaden is trying to make a profound point that he hopes will change people’s lives.
“Taking the stairs is a mindset,” he said. “It’s a simple metaphor that represents choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.”
In his book titled Take the Stairs, Vaden shares seven key steps to achieving true success. But at the root of all of them is one thing – self discipline.
“When we indulge in spending on credit, eating whatever we want, and saying whatever we feel like. When we chose the escalators of the world, what happens is procrastination and indulgence become these creditors that charge us interest and make things worse in the long term,” Vaden said.
On top of his desk is a dream board, and beneath it is a calendar jam-packed with the activities and things that must be completed in order to make those dreams possible. He says taking the stairs helps you do more than avoid the bad. Those sacrifices will even help rearrange the outcome of your future…
Click here to read the full article at WSMV.com!
