074: How To Fight Procrastination

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When we think of procrastination, it’s easy to believe that it is simply about poor time management, but in reality it has nothing to do with time management and everything to do with our emotions. Today, I’m sharing the most common excuses we use to justify our procrastination & tips on how to combat each of those excuses. It is so important to press into the excuses we give, to recognize the harm that procrastination is doing to your work and to commit to change.

What’s In This Episode:

Fight Procrastination: Why it’s not about time management
Letting go of the shame & guilt associated with procrastination
Questions to ask yourself when you can’t get started on a task
6 excuses you’re using to justify procrastination & tips on how to combat each
Commit to tackle your procrastination mindset

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on finding success and happiness through the power of productivity.
0:09.1	Each season, Tanya focuses on specific strategies to help you discover your own priorities and purpose.
0:14.6	Season six is all about turning your stumbling blocks into starting blocks.
0:19.0	You can also join Tanya for more interaction and support in her
0:21.9	free Facebook group at Incwellpress.com slash group. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:29.1	Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of
0:35.2	Inquell Press, and this is episode 74. Today's episode is brought to you
0:40.6	by Blue Apron, and I'll be sharing later on in the episode how you can get a discount on your first box.
0:47.4	Right now, though, I want to talk about procrastination because I know this is one of the biggest
0:53.5	stumbling blocks so many people have shared with me.
0:57.3	So let's talk about how to fight procrastination.
1:00.5	Because procrastination has long been thought about as a time management or a willpower issue.
1:07.7	But psychologists have recently been discovering that it has more to do with how our brains and our emotions work.
1:14.9	In other words, procrastination has nothing to do with time management and everything to do with your emotions.
1:22.8	Procrastination is largely a coping mechanism to avoid emotionally unpleasant tasks by doing something that provides
1:30.4	a temporary mood boost instead. The procrastination itself causes a lot of shame and a lot of guilt,
1:38.4	which leads people to procrastinate more. So this is a vicious cycle. Psychologist Tim Pitchell, a professor at Carleton University in
1:47.4	Ottawa, Canada, has been studying procrastinators for over 20 years. He co-authored a paper showing that
1:54.4	students who forgave themselves for procrastinating on studying for a previous exam were actually less likely to procrastinate on their next test.
2:04.3	So this is a way to break that cycle, really letting go of some of this shame and guilt.
2:10.1	Pitchell found that procrastination is connected to being able to relate to our future self,
2:16.2	which if you recall, we talked about that back in
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