Sticky Learning Lunches

#34: Keep Putting Off Your To-Do List?

Today's topic, Annoyed That You Keep Putting Off Tasks Part 1. Find out why you procrastinate, how to avoid it, and simple tips to start doing the tasks that you are putting off.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon, sticky learning lunches. Just gonna give it 30 seconds. Everyone has just suddenly compiling in at the, just a few seconds beforehand, which is great. It's fantastic to see you all. Colin, thank you Darren. Great to see you. Fabian, lovely to see you again. Gina. Always a pleasure. Howard, John. John, thank you for being here. Karen, good to see you again, Lynn. Alia sorry. Yeah, ela, Stuart, Tim, Vicki. There's some wonderful, there's some new faces here, which is always great to see.

Nathan Simmonds:

There's some I want, I don't wanna say old faces, 'cause in that would be wrong. You know, just some regulars. We've got some regulars in. And it's lovely to see you all. Thank you for being here. Just gonna give it 10 more seconds. Just wait for the last handful of full of people to arrive. Jane, good to see you again. Diane. Welcome Andrea. Thank you very much for being here. Just before we get in, on a scale of one's 10, one terrible, 10, phenomenal, how are we feeling today? How are we feeling?

Work on your procrastination and get your to-do list done

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Oh, and also just writing the comments. How are we feeling about learning some stuff about procrastination and how we overcome that state, one to 10, how are you feeling? And also, let me know how you're feeling about getting some tips around procrastination. We've got a seven. Can't wait. Good. Thank you very much, Karen. Nine, six. Tired. 10 up for it. That's a good trade.

Nathan Simmonds:

Seven. I wanted to put this off to be fair or to be honest. Thanks Howard for the joke. Good bit harassed. Ready for a break. Dunno. Can't make up my mind. Ha, funny people, funny, funny people, right? So let's dive into this. If anyone's coming in late, that's absolutely fine. Like I said, they might have been putting it off. They didn't wanna face the hard truth of what's actually gonna be talked about today. Let's get into this. Welcome to today's Sticky learning lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM Making Business Matter.

Nathan Simmonds:

The home of sticky learning idea of these sessions is to give you skills to help you be the best version of you in the work that you do right now at home. And also preparing you for return, returning back to the office if that's the case. These sessions, we've got three sessions now all around procrastination. And I know from the previous trainings that I've delivered and the previous conversations that we've had, I've been drip feeding some elements around procrastination, some elements around mindset, and some ideas that are gonna help shift that.

Nathan Simmonds:

And what we wanted to do with these sessions is bring 'em together in a package of three learnings so that you can really understand at a deep level what is procrastination, how you are doing it, and also have a mechanism to overcome that in the best possible way and keep you moving forward. And that's what we wanna do. We wanna bring this to life for you to keep you, give you that momentum.

Nathan Simmonds:

First things first. Who here is a procrastinator yes or no in the comments? Who here is a procrastinator? We've got a yes, I've got an everyone tell you later. Maybe I can be sometimes last minute Charlie. A-K-A-A-K, a big time, sometimes good. And it's the same with Alcoholics Anonymous. Now the first thing about when you are, when you are an addict or you are an alcoholic, is to admit it. You have to take ownership of where you are with what's going on.

Nathan Simmonds:

Now, if you are not able to do that, you won't be able to put the actions in place or the steps in that are gonna help you m...