490. How to Stop Procrastinating - A Better Solution
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
How many times have you promised yourself that this time you were finally going to stop procrastinating? Maybe you bought another planner to color-code, or scoured the internet for the best productivity tips. You want to solve this problem, but what if procrastination isn't the problem you think it is?
In this episode, I show you why procrastination is not a character flaw, a willpower problem, or proof that you are secretly broken. It is an emotional avoidance strategy, and once you understand that, you can finally stop trying to solve it at the wrong level. I walk you through the three steps to actually changing this pattern, plus share some specific ways to think about procrastination if you have ADHD or suspect you might.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends. Today, we're going to talk about procrastination. And I want to start with a sentence |
| 0:05.8 | that is going to flip everything you think you know about procrastination on its head. |
| 0:11.5 | Procrastination is not a problem. Procrastination is actually your solution. Procrastination is your |
| 0:20.1 | brain's solution to a problem. It's doing exactly what it was |
| 0:25.2 | designed to do. The reason you can't stop procrastinating, no matter how many planners you buy, |
| 0:30.8 | or productivity you hacks you read at 11 p.m. the night before something is due, is that you're trying |
| 0:36.1 | to fix something that from your brain's |
| 0:38.1 | perspective is not actually broken. In fact, it's operating very effectively. So today we're |
| 0:43.8 | going to talk about what procrastination is solving for, why feeling bad about it doesn't motivate |
| 0:49.2 | you and actually makes the whole thing worse, and how to actually change this behavior instead. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm also going to do a special section at the end if you have ADHD or suspect that you might, because while the picture there's |
| 1:00.6 | a little bit different, there's still a lot of ways to use thought work to help you with procrastination, |
| 1:05.2 | even if you have a neurodivergent brain. So let's get into it. Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host, Kara Lowentile, master-certified coach, |
| 1:15.4 | and founder of the School of New Feminist Thub. I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, |
| 1:21.5 | turn up your confidence, and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly excited |
| 1:26.9 | to live. Let's go. |
| 1:31.2 | All right, so let's start with talking about the problem procrastination is trying to solve. |
| 1:36.5 | When most of us think about procrastination, we treat it like a character flaw. We think that |
| 1:41.9 | we are lazy, we're undisciplined, that something is fundamentally |
| 1:45.6 | wrong with our willpower. And we try to productivity hack ourselves out of it. We buy a new |
| 1:52.3 | planner that's got little gold foil corners. We download the 47th productivity app of our lives. |
| 1:58.7 | We make a color-coded calendar that looks like a Mondrian |
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