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
2. Break big tasks into smaller ones 
3. Be ruthless about your primary distractions; learn what they are and limit them
4. If something isn’t working, try something else. “You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” -Albert Einstein
5. 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
2. Get to know your true “yes”
3. 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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