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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

056: Conquering Procrastination with Rita Emmett

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Recovering procrastinator and professional speaker Rita Emmett lays out a handy framework for overcoming procrastination in the heat of the moment.


You’ll learn:

  1. How to tackle the fears that breed procrastination
  2. Approaches to turn procrastination into prioritization
  3. The 5-step STING method to overcoming procrastination


About Rita

Rita Emmett was once The World’s Greatest Procrastinator. Then she converted and is now a “Recovering Procrastinator”.

She is also a professional speaker, and author of: The Procrastinator’s Handbook, The Clutter-Busting Handbook, and Manage Your Time To Reduce Your Stress. The books have sold over 300K copies in 42 countries, garnering Rita hundreds of media appearances, including Katie Couric.

Rita’s customized presentations cover Procrastination, Clutter, Customer Loyalty, Burn-out, and Communication Skills have helped hundreds of organizations improve their performance, productivity and profitability, and head off burnout before it starts. Her clients include AT&T, Kraft Food, Mercedes Benz, Met Life, and The National Kidney Foundation.

She emails a free monthly “ANTICRASTINATION Tip Sheet” available at www.RitaEmmett.comwith tips and ideas to help people blast away the procrastination habit.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello and welcome to episode 56 here, we're tackling procrastination and the tackler helping us do just that is Rita Emmett.

0:29.0

Rita offered a fun acronym for handling procrastination, sting, take the sting out of procrastination.

0:37.2

And so I don't know if some people think acronyms are cheesy or old school.

0:41.4

I think they genuinely have helped me remember it and I have used it and applied it over a month later.

0:47.0

So I dig it. I'm a fan. You tell me, you dig speakers with acronyms, you don't dig that. Let me know. Every bit of feedback helps

0:54.4

progressively refine and guide the show. So that's Pete at awesome at your job.

0:58.9

com. So from Rita, you're going to learn one, how to tackle the fears that breed procrastination, two, approaches to turn procrastination into a productive time of prioritization, and three, the five-step sting method,, ST-I-N-G,

1:14.3

to overcoming procrastination.

1:16.1

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcripts,

1:18.2

the links to things mentioned,

1:19.8

you'll find that over at awesome at your job.

1:21.7

com slash eep- or if you'd like those

1:25.4

takeaways in something you can read faster in an email that comes to you that

1:29.9

could be read in under two minutes sign up for the gold nugget email list

1:33.9

at awesome at your job.com

1:35.3

where you can find summaries of Rita's Insight

1:37.7

as well as the other 55 guests we've had here

1:40.4

and more to come as they emerge.

1:43.0

So here's a bit about Rita, Rita Emmett was once the world's greatest procrastinator.

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