Rory Vaden - Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time

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PROCRASTINATE ON PURPOSE

Managing your time is a lot like managing your money. Its not about the numbers; its about your behavior. The best time-management tricks in the world wont do you much good if they dont actually make your life better. In Procrastinate on Purpose, Rory builds on what weve all heard about time management and adds the two things that have always been missing: emotion and significance.

Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio show host

A brilliant insight turned into an actionable method. Start now!

Seth Godin, author of Linchpin

We all have the same 24 hours in a day to make an impact but what if you could actually create more time? Procrastinate on Purpose shows how the greatest leaders in the world have figured out how to literally multiply their time. This book is a game changer.

Jon Gordon, bestselling author of The Energy Bus and The Carpenter

Rory Vaden has invented a way to manufacture more time in your day! This book has brilliant insights on how to become more productive in every area.

Randy Gage, author of the New York Times bestseller Risky Is the New Safe

Rory Vaden is a contrarianand thats a good thing. Most rail against the evils of procrastination, but in Procrastinate on Purpose, Vaden shows us how to use it to our advantage. In doing so, we get more of the one resource that used to be finite: time.

John G. Miller, bestselling author of QBQ!, Outstanding!, and Parenting the QBQ Way

Procrastinate on Purpose will alter the way the professional world thinks about timeIve never read anything like it. Useful, unique, and relevant... this is an absolute must read for every leader.

Sue Schick, CEO of UnitedHealthcare of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Procrastinate on Purpose is the unorthodox guide for mastering time-management and productivity in our 24/7 business world. If you only read one book this year on how to become more effective and focused at work with less stressand fewer emailsread this one.

Jason Dorsey, cofounder of the Center for Generational Kinetics and bestselling author of Y-Size Your Business

Rorys commitment to living life on purpose has challenged and inspired me again and again. In Procrastinate on Purpose, he shares a fresh take on time management, giving you tools and techniques that will empower you to say no to the mediocre in order to say yes to the best.

Crystal Paine, founder of MoneySavingMom.com and New York Times bestselling author of Say Goodbye to Survival Mode

The thing I love about Rory Vadens books is that long before he writes about principles, he lives them. If youve ever thought, I wish I had more time, read the great principles in this book. And then I dare you to do what Rory does: live them.

Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Start and Quitter

We all wish we had more time. It turns out we have plenty to spare. In Procrastinate on Purpose, Rory Vaden shows us how to take our time back and sets us free from the shackles of tired time-management techniques.

Ken Coleman, author of One Question and host of the EntreLeadership Podcast

Every once in a while you read a book so impactful that you buy a copy for each of your teenage kids and make them memorize it. Take the Stairs was that book for me. The world NEEDS Rory Vaden. He is a big thinker and action taker who will challenge the way you are living your life. I couldnt wait to get my hands on his second book. Procrastinate on Purpose will not disappoint.

Sarah Petty, owner of Joy of Marketing and New York Times bestselling author of Worth Every Penny

All of our days are numbered, but in Procrastinate on Purpose Rory Vaden reveals the unconscious method that top performers have been using for years to multiply their results. For the first time ever, now you can understand their same methodology.

Robert D. Smith, author of 20,000 Days and Counting

By the fourth chapter, I was ready to completely rewire my business and my life. We all think we have twenty-four hours, but Rory Vaden crushes that myth with his time multipliers approach. If youre a super-busy person, this is your new playbook.

Jay Baer, New York Times bestselling author of Youtility

Every once in a while a book comes along that completely shifts the way an entire generation thinks about a specific topic. When it comes to time management and productivity, Procrastinate on Purpose may be the one!

Andy Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Travelers Gift and The Noticer

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Vaden, Rory.

Procrastinate on purpose : 5 permissions to multiply your time / Rory Vaden.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-698-15928-0

1. Time management. 2. Labor productivity. I. Title.

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