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Ep44: How to Stop Procrastinating (and Why it’s so Important)

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Why do we procrastinate?  And how do we stop?

This episode explores some practical tips on how to overcome procrastinating. But deeper than that, I discuss how procrastination can also be insidious when it comes to big life decisions. 

 

Practical tips:

  1. Set timers
  • Break big tasks into smaller ones 
  • Be ruthless about your primary distractions; learn what they are and limit them
  • If something isn’t working, try something else. “You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” -Albert Einstein
  • Stop requiring perfection; perfectionists can struggle the most with procrastination

    • None of these little procrastination techniques matter if the things you procrastinate on are meaningless. Are you using procrastination on little things to procrastinate on the big things? 

    On a deeper level, you may be procrastinating:

    • making decisions or taking action in your career (apply somewhere else? stay where you're at? start a business?)
  • your relationship (you want to ask for commitment, you want to break up, you don’t like your friends but you keep hanging out with them)
  • your religion (it doesn’t fit anymore but you’re scared to leave)
  • your living situation (buy a home? sell your home? move out of state?)
  • getting help for your addiction
  • addressing your trauma
  • seeing a therapist for the first time or booking that next appointment

    • Lastly, how to stop procrastinating on the big things:

    1. Get clear on your values
  • Get to know your true “yes”
  • Get better at making decisions (free up that energy): you already know what you want to do, but are struggling with the “why”

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