Hi, everybody. I hope that you're doing well. It's Devan Molyneux from Free Domain Radio.

I'm going to do the long-awaited and oft-requested video on procrastination, and hear, if you like,

you can insert your own joke about how long it has taken me to get to the video on procrastination.

But the reason for that is that it is a very complicated topic. And you would

hope so, because if you do suffer from problems with procrastination, it would kind of be a

bummer if it turned out to be something pretty easy to solve. So I'm going to take a swing

at running you through, at least my theory as to how

procrastination develops within us, why it is so paralyzing and so hard to overcome. And why it is

that the more we work to overcome procrastination, the worse it seems to get. And I have certainly

suffered from my own problems with procrastination

in my life. And so I thought I would share with you the approaches or the understanding that I have

about it and the ways in which I've overcome it. And now I don't really suffer from it too much

anymore. So I'm going to start off with a fairly startling statement,

which, with any luck, I will be able to back up with some examples and perhaps you will find

as relevant within your own life. And that statement is that fundamentally we suffer from

procrastination, or we have tendencies towards procrastination,

because as children we are treated as slaves.

Because as children, we are treated as slaves.

And let me explain sort of what I mean by that,

and we'll see if we can't make a little bit of sense out of it.

So, when we look at just a pure slave relationship, the old historical southern pick cotton on the back 40 kind of slave relationship,

we've got the master up here and the slave down here.

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