Procrastination is driven largely by the emotion that we feel.

When I start doing the work, what's the emotion that I feel?

Usually I feel pretty good once I'm in the motion of doing it.

And then when I accomplish the goal, how do I feel?

I feel really good when I did that.

Where is emotion not good?

Where does the emotion feel the worst?

Just before we start the work, right?

So we have to trick our brain to jump over that emotion,

to just ignore it and start the process. And that's what the first minute does.

Everything starts to become just a little more meaningful and we start to feel more connected

when we choose not to multitask. Where we're trying to do two attention requiring tasks at the same time, things take longer, we make more mistakes, we increase our stress, and we damage relationships.

And, you know, I've always talked about it in terms of those four things, but having this conversation, Pete, I think there's a fifth cost.

And the fifth cost is the impact on our mental health.

We damage our mental health and we train our brains to skim through life.

That's Dave Crenshaw.

He helps develop productive leaders through his speaking, online courses,

and writing. He's author of five books, including the myth of multitasking. Today, we're talking

about procrastination and taking action when you really, really don't feel like it. Still learn,

one, how to overcome procrastination one minute, Two, the five costs of multitasking.

And three, why to pick a terrible stopping point?

And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actionable wisdom for this episode,

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