Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 595. I hope you are doing good and great on this

July the 26th because today we're talking about motivation. We're talking about procrastination.

How can we get one and how can we let go of the other? Well, first of all, let's think about what one and the other is.

Procrastination is obviously the lack of doing something.

Motivation is the instigation of actually doing something.

And we want to be able to move ourselves from procrastination to motivation.

Now the thing is what we've got to really understand is that when it comes to procrastination

and motivation, specifically motivation, it is run by an unconscious aspect of us.

You see our drivers, our motivations and all those things

come from our values. You see, if you have a high value for doing something very, which is

important to you, you're more likely to go ahead and do it. If you have a high value of money, you're probably going to be more

driven to money. If you have a high value for, say, family life, the chances are you're going

to be more driven to be around family. So it is important to understand that a lot of

motivation and procrastination comes from our values,

things which are important to us. But it does go a little bit deeper than that. Because

we, if we think about the first real reason why we do not do things, we are driven away

from pain, right?

You don't want to go into pain so it's easier to not do something.

If you think if you have a goal or a dream that you would like to achieve, where it be big,

wherever it be very, very small, the chances are the reason why we're not doing it

because it's easier not to do it, right? It's easier to watch TV. It is easier to go on social media.

It's easier to watch your video. Now, that is one level of it. Now, the other

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