3757: Stop Procrastinating by Psych Alive on How to Manage Difficult Emotions and Take Action

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 10 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 3757: Psych Alive explores why procrastination is less about poor time management and more about managing difficult emotions. By uncovering the role of self-critical thoughts and fear-driven avoidance, the article provides tools to move past resistance and take meaningful action. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.psychalive.org/stop-procrastinating/ Quotes to ponder: "Most of us are all too familiar with the sinking feeling that comes with putting off an important task." "Procrastination is not a time management problem; it’s an emotional regulation problem." "We often fail to realize that the very strategies we use to protect ourselves from uncomfortable feelings are the ones that keep us stuck." Episode references: Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now: https://www.amazon.com/Procrastination-You-What-Do-About/dp/0738211702 Self-Compassion:https://www.amazon.com/Self-Compassion-Beating-Yourself-Insecurity-Destructive/dp/0061733520 The War of Art: https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	procrastinating by the Psycholive team at Psycholive.org. And I'm Justin Mollick. We're going to get right to it today and start optimizing
1:12.2	your life. Stop procrastinating by the Psycholive team at Psycholive.org. Most of us are aware of that
1:24.6	voice in our heads that screams to us, stop procrastinating.
1:28.9	And most of us know that the pressure and stress that this voice puts on us just makes
1:33.5	us more intimidated and less likely to get anything done.
1:37.9	Procrastination is a self-fueled cycle, and it's becoming an epidemic in our society.
1:43.8	More than a quarter of people describe
1:45.6	themselves as procrastinators. This becomes all the more concerning when we factor in the results of a
1:51.8	10-year study released in 2007, which showed that procrastination is not only on the rise,
1:58.5	but, quote, it makes people poorer, fatter, and unhappier, end quote.
2:05.1	So how can we stop procrastinating one, and for all?
2:09.3	Believe it or not, there's a condition all procrastinators suffer from,
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