This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1640, a guide to overcoming procrastination and finding

focus by Leo Babata of Zenhabits.net and I'm your narrator, just a malloc reading you blogs

every single day of the year to help you live a more meaningful life. This show covers self-help

or personal development, productivity, motivation, inspiration, and a lot more, all in an effort to

help you. Pretty rarely I get an email from someone with no agenda just who wants to share how the

podcast impact of their life. I love those emails. Someone even sent an audio one time and I had

to share it with family and friends because of so moving. I think I even shared it on the show.

I got another the other day just a written email and it actually went really well with the

yesterday's article but I had so many comments that I didn't want to make that episode too long.

So I saved it for today. I'll share that after today's reading from Zenhabits. So for now let's get

right to it as we optimize your life. A guide to overcoming procrastination and finding focus

by Leo Babata of Zenhabits.net. We all procrastinate. The question is how or even whether we overcome

the tendency to procrastinate and if we can find focus. This matters. Our lives are brief and

limited and while we don't need to be productivity robots running in fear of difficult tasks to

distractions and comfort it's not the best way to spend our lives. We can face these fears. We can

learn to deal with them mindfully and in doing so we can develop an ability to return with courage

to the work that matters the most to us to create something important, something that helps the world

at least in a small way. Distraction and running aren't useful habits. Let's learn to overcome them

and find focus to create the procrastination fears. Why do we run from hard tasks? Because of fears

that we don't know what we're doing that we're going to mess up and look bad that will succeed and

then have to face a scarier situation that the task will be difficult and uncomfortable. Basically

we fear discomfort and uncertainty. We want comfort and certainty and distractions like email

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