Hi, I'm Sarah Ellis and I'm Helen Tupper and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast.

Each week we talk about a different topic to do with work and discuss practical ideas and

actions to help you develop in your career and be successful in this increasingly

squiggly world of work that we all find ourselves in right now.

And we're going to dive straight into this week's topic which feels like the right thing to do given it's on performance. increasingly squiggly world of work that we all find ourselves in right now.

And we're going to dive straight into this week's topic, which feels like the right thing to do,

given it's on procrastination. So I feel like if we talked too much, we'd be kind of getting in our own way. And this was actually a topic that was requested from one of our listeners. Someone on

Twitter said, I'm really struggling with procrastination, perhaps even more so, since

coronavirus, since lockdown, really interested in some kind of ideas, hints and tips.

It really made me pause for thought because actually I think I found it harder as well.

And I don't know whether that's just because there's more distractions, maybe there's a bit less

routine, maybe there's more to just cope with,

you know, like just kind of the amount of things are kind of going on in your head

at any one moment in time. Perhaps it just felt easier to kind of let other stuff kind of get in

the way. What do you think, Helen? Have you been procrastinating more or less? I think that my

emotions have influenced my actions more. So I've had like just a more

emotional stuff going on like highs and lows and family distractions and thinking about our

business. And I think that's just provided a whole load of stuff that I wasn't really

getting my way before. And I've sort of, there's different work and I'm doing work differently.

But I think a bigger impact on

my ability to manage my procrastination has just been how I've been feeling about everything.

It's felt like a different weight that's constantly fluctuating. So I think that's probably

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