Sticky Learning Lunches

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

Today's topic, Putting Off Tasks Part 2. 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:

Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch with me, Nathan Simmons. Just the last couple of people coming into the room now, and we're just gonna get them in. And then we are gonna crack on because we've got some core content to cover. We're gonna carry on the theme of yesterday around procrastination. We're gonna dive even deeper into those seven excuses that, you know, these words that we use to validate why we don't do things, and then boil those down to the core values and core fears that we display that often come up and trigger these excuses.

Nathan Simmonds:

And when you understand this and get it right down to its root cause, it's gonna enable you to take better actions, more considered approaches to things and help to eliminate those things off your to-do list. So let's get everyone in the room. He says, where's my mouse on? There it is. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning. Hello, Andrea. Good to see you again. Colin. Darren, Fabian. Thank you Gareth. Good to see you again. Gina Howard. Karen Lynn. Nice. See you Petra. Thank you for being here. Ramah and Tim, handful of more people, handful more coming in.

Figure out your procrastination and be more productive

 

Nathan Simmonds:

First things first, as always, let's get the phones on flight mode. Zero the distraction, a hundred percent attention on where you're going today and what you are doing. And this is about investing your time in you to make you more incredible than yesterday. That's what we came here for. So, phones off. Fresh sheet, fresh sheet, fresh thinking at the top of that page. In your notepad, you're gonna write keepers, as I always say now, it's about things that you hear, things that you learned today that you want to keep hold of, that you want to remember, reignite and help to kind of reimagine and reinvigorate the thinking.

Nathan Simmonds:

As you know, as you reread those notes, new ideas percolate to the surface so you can come up with new ideas, new actions and and new thoughts that are gonna help you deliver even better result. Also, making sure you've got a drink, it's getting warmer over here, wherever you are, on, in, on the planet, on the globe at this point in time, making sure you've got a drink and you are ready for this.

Nathan Simmonds:

We are in Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM, making Business Matter, the home of sticky learning. And these sessions all about helping you be the best version of you in the work that you are doing right now. And if you are returning back to the office for that return as well, we are the leadership development and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry.

Nathan Simmonds:

And I want to give you some of the skills up here that I've learned in 23 years of leadership and the last nine, maybe 10 years now, of coaching leaders and developing leaders. And share some of this content with you just to help push that thinking further. Where are we today? Someone's already told me how they're feeling On a scale of of 10, obviously a 7.5 is pretty good. How are we feeling today? First question is, how are we feeling today? One being terrible, 10 being phenomenal. How are we feeling on a sliding scale? What's going on for us? How are we feeling right now? Got nines. We've got a six. Okay, we're gonna work on that today. You've got nines, nines, nines up for it. Good. Seven.

Nathan Simmonds:

We've got a couple of sixes. Weather has brought the score down. Oh, well let's, let's lift this score up. Yesterday when we talked about it, it, I also said, you know, what's the one small action you can take today that's gonna create imp...