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Welcome back to the Court of the Day Show, I'm your host, Sean

Crockston and Sean Crockston.com. We've got one of your favorite speakers back on the show today, Mel Robbins.

And today, Mel is going to show you how to use your awareness to understand what procrastination is and how you can get beyond it.

And the quote of the day is this, you're not a procrastinator, you have a habit of procrastinating. Here's Mel.

So let's talk a little bit about procrastination. Who in here struggles with procrastination?

Yeah, and the rest of you that aren't reading your hand are just procrastinating on doing it, aren't you? I know.

You see, I always thought procrastination had to do with the thing I was procrastinating around, right?

Like that procrastination has something to do with work. Believe it or not, procrastination has nothing to do with your work.

Procrastination is a form of stress relief. Let me explain this.

So let's say that you've got some stuff going on in your life, and heck, who doesn't have stuff going on in your life?

Maybe you're fighting with your significant other. Maybe moms or dads' health is failing, and it's really, really upsetting you.

Maybe you've got some financial stuff, you put too much of your savings into Bitcoin, and now that that's crashed, you're stressed out about it, right?

And so you go into work, and when you get into work, you got stuff to do, you kind of walk in and you got this big stress ball that subconsciously is hanging over you.

And so you walk in and you sit down, and you know you got 13 phone calls you need to make, and you also know that you've been chickening out, you've been making easy calls, and there's a bunch of CIOs or other people that are higher level that you haven't been calling.

And so as you sit down to do it, and you got the stress on your shoulders, your brain starts to go, wait a minute.

You want me to make a call to somebody that I'm scared to make? Absolutely not. I'm so stressed out about, can we just watch some cat videos for a minute?

And next thing you know, an hour is gone by, and then of course what do you do? You beat yourself up.

So the only way that you can break this habit, and that's an important word for you to hear, you're not a procrastinator, you have a habit of procrastinating.

Big difference. Because if it's a habit, I can teach you to use science to break it.

You see all habits have three parts, there's a trigger, and in the case of procrastination, the triggers always stress.

Then there's a pattern you repeat, and in the case of procrastination, it is to avoid doing something, and then there's a reward, you get a little stress relief.

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