Bill Lazor is a FocalPoint Certified Business and Executive Coach & Trainer and a financial & strategic planning expert whose business career spans 43 years in engineering and manufacturing companies across multiple industries.

Prior to joining FocalPoint, Bill spent three decades in Corporate Finance working with senior executives on initiatives in finance, business development, and strategic planning. He has partnered with senior executives on tactical and strategic issues at Fortune 500 companies like DuPont, Procter & Gamble, General Dynamics, Penguin Publishing, Raytheon Systems, Burkert Fluid Controls, Toyota Material Handling USA, Raytheon Technologies, CoreStrategy Corporation, L3 Technologies, and L3 Harris Technologies.

Bill offers a wide range of programs and services – from one-on-one and one-to-many coaching of business owners and corporate executives as well as delivering assessments, workshops, and training tailored to the needs of their executive teams.

He specializes in leading entrepreneurs, business owners, and C suite executives in small to midsize companies to develop and implement strategic plans; to optimize processes and systems; and to build and develop their leadership teams.

21 Great Ways To Stop Procrastinating

1. Set the table.
   • Decide exactly what you want.
   • Clarity is essential.
   • Write out your goals and objectives before you begin.
2. Plan every day in advance.
   • Think on paper.
   • Every minute you spend in planning can save you five or ten minutes in execution.
3. Apply the 80/20 Rule to everything.
   • Twenty percent of your activity will account for eighty percent of your results.
   • Always concentrate your efforts on that top twenty percent.
4. Consider the consequences.
   • Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work.
   • Focus on these above all else.
5. Practice creative procrastination.
   • Since you can’t do everything, you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that really count.
6. Use the ABCDE Method continually.
   • Before you begin work on a list of tasks, take a few moments to organize them by value and priority so you can be sure of working on your most important activities.
7. Focus on key result areas.
   • Identify those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long.
8. Apply the Law of Three.
   • Identify the three things you do in your work that account for 90 percent of your contribution, and focus on getting them done before anything else.
   • You will then have more time for your family and personal life.
9. Prepare thoroughly before you begin.
   • Have everything you need at hand before you start.
   • Assemble all the papers, information, tools, work materials, and numbers you might require so that you can get started and keep going.
10. Take it one oil barrel at a time.
    • You can accomplish the biggest and most complicated job if you just complete it one step at a time.
11. Upgrade your key skills.
    • The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done.
    • Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.
12. Identify your key constraints.
    • Determine the bottlenecks or choke points, internal or external, that set the speed at which you achieve your most important goals, and focus on alleviating them.
13. Put pressure on yourself.
    • Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work as if you had to get your major task completed before you left.
14. Motivate yourself into action.
    • Be your own cheerleader.
    • Look for the good in every situation.
    • Focus on the solution rather than the problem.
    • Always be optimistic and constructive.
15. Technology is a terrible master.
    • Take back your time from enslaving technological addictions.
    • Learn to often turn devices off and leave them off.
16. Technology is a wonderful servant.
    • Use your technological tools to confront yourself with what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important.
17. Focus your attention.
    • Stop the interruptions and distractions that interfere with completing your most important tasks.
18. Slice and dice the task.
    • Break large, complex tasks down into bite-sized pieces, and then do just one small part of the task to get started.
19. Create large chunks of time.
    • Organize your days around large blocks of time so you can concentrate for extended periods on your most important tasks.
20. Develop a sense of urgency.
    • Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks.
    • Become known as a person who does things quickly and well.
21. Single handle every task.
    • Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task, and then work without stopping until the job is 100 percent complete.
    • This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity.

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