3175: A Guide to Overcoming Procrastination & Finding Focus by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits on Intentional Living

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3175: Explore how to combat procrastination and enhance your focus with insights from Leo Babauta. Dive into the practical strategies for dealing with discomfort and uncertainty, empowering you to tackle important tasks and contribute positively to the world. Read along with the original article(s) here: http://zenhabits.net/focusguide Quotes to ponder: "When you get the urge to switch to something else, pause and deal mindfully with it." "Our lives are brief and limited, and running in fear of difficult tasks to distractions and comfort is not the best way to spend our lives." "The trick to overcoming procrastination is to catch ourselves when we’re about to switch tasks, and instead stay with the urge without acting on it." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.6	This is optimal living daily episode 3175, a guide to overcoming procrastination and finding focus by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. net and I'm just a m Malik. Now like all this week I'm doing a flashback
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1:28.0	A guide to overcoming procrastination and finding focus by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. Net.
1:35.0	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
1:46.6	while we don't need to be productivity robots, running in fear of difficult tasks to
1:51.2	distractions and comfort is not the best way to spend our lives.
1:55.7	We can face these fears.
1:57.4	We can learn to deal with them mindfully.
1:59.8	And in doing so, we can develop an ability to return with courage to the work that matters the most
2:04.7	to us, to create something important, something that helps the world at least in a small way.
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