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I'm your host Trish Blackwell and I teach entrepreneurs and dream chasers to take action on the dream got put on their hearts.

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deep. All right, let's dive deep. Indeed, welcome to the confidence podcast with your host, Trish, that's me.

You are listening to episode number 285. And we're talking about a topic that has come up a lot.

For a lot of my coaching clients, a lot of my college confidence members,

just a lot of people I know in general,

and it is procrastination.

And before you say, okay, I don't struggle with that. I want to ask you if you're putting off anything that's important to you or that you care about deeply because you're not ready.

Because if you're not ready or you're not blank enough or you just want everything all your ducks to be in a row my friend you are procrastinating and what procrastination is it is a gentle lie a safety net that we tell ourselves that we think is keeping us safe

from the risk of failure, from the risk of putting ourselves out there.

And what happens is we end up feeling this dullness of heart because we know that we're not thriving

and rising to the to our fullest potential in our fullest capacity and our fullest calling and

it not only is it detrimental to helping us get to certain goals,

but you guys I really think, I believe, I don't just think, I believe that procrastination

is a spirit crusher.

And so before you get down on yourself because maybe you feel like you're a

procrastinator, we are going to be clear today and today's coaching session that a procrastination is a habit not a character trait.

So I want to encourage you to start separating yourself from these names you've called

yourself or these behaviors that you've sort of maybe cornered yourself into thinking this is just how it's always going to be because you're not set in that that is not who you are.

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