Make it a lifelong habit to do at least three things every day (no matter how small each is) to move you toward your goals. List them the night before in your diary or to do list and make the first task on your list the one you are most likely to procrastinate on. Once you have completed that one, the other two plus the rest of the day will be a breeze, and you will feel great. 

It might be sending out a thank you letter, thereby building a relationship. It might be making a phone call to a specific client either to sell something or to develop rapport. It might be to design an ad, write two pages of a new book, or confront an issue at work. The tasks change every day. The only things that shouldn't change is your resolve to accomplish at least three of them in pursuit of your goals. Every one of them is positive. Every one of them should make you feel good for having done it and it will make you feel good as well. Every one of them can be done that day. That means every week you should cross at least 21 items off a to-do list. Try crossing them off with a red pen, it's a powerful colour, and a powerful feeling. And if for any reason, you do not get these three items done, then the items not completed get added on to the next day's total.

Winston Churchill once said, "There are plenty of good ideas if only they can be backed with the power of action." Although goals and strategies are very important, the greatest plans in the world won't amount to anything without action.

No matter where you stand in your business, career or life (and no matter what challenges you now face) when you make the conscious decision to become a person of action (rather than being indecisive) you instantly turn the tide of your life in your favour. Often, if you are mentally ready for action, opportunities will present themselves in the most unusual ways, and you will find yourself involved in new and interesting endeavours. Action has a way of increasing opportunity, while procrastination and inaction always inhibit success.

As Benjamin Disraeli said, "Action does not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

The very worst use of your time is to do things well that don't really need to be done at all.

The Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule) states that 20% of your activities will account for 80% of the value of your activities. This means that, if you have a todo list of ten items, two of those items will be worth more than the other eight items altogether. So concentrate on those activities that contribute the greatest value: stop procrastinating and prioritise. The best way to prioritise is to determine the potential consequences of doing something or not doing something.