293: How to Stop Procrastinating
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Curious how I managed to go from chronic procrastinator to energized and prepared? Listen in. This week, I'm sharing the exact steps I took to understand my procrastination and the changes I made to my mindset so you, too, can put an end to your procrastination habit. The benefits of stopping procrastinating are endless, and I can't wait for you to enjoy them too!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 293. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm talking about how to stop procrastinating, even if you've been doing it for a very long time. |
| 0:12.8 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:13.4 | Hi, I'm Jen Ridey, and this podcast is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive. |
| 0:26.2 | You'll gain the emotional, physical, and spiritual tools you need to get your sparkle back and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life. |
| 0:30.7 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | Hey there, my friends. |
| 0:35.5 | We're talking about procrastination. It is something I have done my whole |
| 0:42.0 | lifelong. Yet, I wouldn't have admitted that to myself until just today. Okay, how did I discover |
| 0:52.1 | this about myself? How did I end my denial? Well, I have something I've been |
| 0:58.4 | wanting to do and I found myself feeling afraid, afraid to the point where I'm not doing it. |
| 1:05.3 | That's the definition of procrastination, right? I'm not doing something I want to do or something I need to do to the point |
| 1:13.2 | where I'm having to apologize to someone who's waiting for me to do my thing. And I decided to nip |
| 1:21.0 | it in the bud today and to do a thought table. You've heard me talk about thought tables before. |
| 1:26.9 | This tool fixes everything. Yet, I hadn't ever used a thought table. You've heard me talk about thought tables before. This tool fixes everything, |
| 1:28.8 | yet I hadn't ever used a thought table to figure out why I'm procrastinating. So today, |
| 1:35.8 | I got out my trusty whiteboard and I wrote down what I'm feeling right there in the middle. |
| 1:41.9 | I'm feeling fear. Thought tables, which stem |
| 1:45.9 | from cognitive behavioral therapy, thought tables are my version of this, a way to simplify |
| 1:52.8 | things. Well, thought tables teach that every feeling we have, every single one of them, |
| 1:59.2 | comes from a thought that we're thinking. |
| 2:03.5 | So we don't feel anything because our kids did something or because our spouse said something |
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