If you find yourself getting caught in endless loops of procrastination, you are not alone.

Today, you will learn how to disrupt those procrastination loops.

Welcome to About Progress, I'm Monica Packer, a regular mom and recovering perfectionist.

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When you were growing up, did you ever read that book if you give a mouse a cookie?

We did often and I love reading it to my kids, but when I do now, as an adult,

I have to laugh because that little mouse basically foreshadowed my life as an adult.

I love to get things done and I know you do too, but I also am and just like all other humans on

Earth, grown to getting lost down these procrastination loops. Sometimes this looks like

unproductive procrastination, you know, just your usual loops on the internet,

and other times it looks like productive procrastination, like when I find myself

cleaning out a closet instead of doing the task I'm dreading. If you find yourself getting

similarly caught in these loops of procrastination where they're just hard to get out of,

it is not only annoying, it can also be weirdly demoralizing. Because procrastination doesn't

just prevent you from getting things done, it also can prevent you from being the person you want to be.

Today, I'm so excited to share an interview I did all about procrastination on the

three and 30 takeaways for mom's podcast with my dear friend Rachel Nilsen. And then you'll hear

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