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Modern Mentor

093 GID Procrastination Is Habit Forming

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3726 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2009

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

Steva Robbins here.

0:04.0

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.0

Today's topic is procrastination.

0:12.0

The quick and dirty tip is to make things a habit.

0:15.0

Hi, this is Julia Kulom.

0:17.0

I live in New York.

0:18.0

First of all, I love your podcast.

0:20.0

I work to do it every night, religiously.

0:22.2

But I had a question about procrastination. If you had any tips of how to avoid procrastinating,

0:27.7

it gets me everywhere, every day in my school work, in my, you know, home life, in my cleaning.

0:33.7

I mean, every little, every time I can find a reason to procrastinate, I use it. Exercise, I mean, every little, every time I can find a reason to procrastinate, I use it.

0:37.6

Exercise, I mean, everything.

0:39.1

And it just gets kind of annoying, you know, everybody, I feel like everybody procrastinates a little bit some more than others.

0:43.1

And I was just hoping you had some tips of how to avoid procrastination and how to really get over that, kick that habit, kind of thing.

0:48.9

So thanks so much and keep doing what you do. It's great.

0:51.6

How to stop procrastinating.

0:53.6

We all procrastinate. And we put off the very things that are most

0:57.0

important. What is up with that? You mentioned exercise? Here's how I procrastinate exercise.

1:03.8

Time to exercise, I say, as I leap out of bed. Then I look around the room for anything shiny.

1:10.0

Oh, look, a penny. That reminds me. I saw a lot of loose change around the room for anything shiny. Oh, look, a penny!

1:11.9

That reminds me.

1:13.1

I saw a lot of loose change around the apartment.

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