Let's talk about procrastination. What it is, like the scientific reason why we procrastinate

and how we can finally stop.

Hey, Clutterbugs, and welcome back to the Clutterbug podcast. Today, I wanted to talk about procrastination

because not only is this one of the biggest struggles I had for the majority of my life,

but I've kind of found some ways of overcoming it, which are awesome. But it's something that

I'm really struggling with today when it comes to my daughter. My oldest daughter, Izzy,

is the now the queen of, like I've passed her the crown. She now is the queen of procrastination.

And I think for a lot of us who struggle with procrastination, we have this sort of idea

that it's just our personality. It's something that we do. It's like a moral failing. We label

ourselves a procrastinator. And this is definitely something that she's doing. And why? Why do we do

this? We know science has shown this isn't actually a personality trait. It's not genetic. We'll leave

it or not. It isn't something that we pass down to our children. But you will see that

people who tend to procrastinate tend to have children who procrastinate. And the reason,

the real reason of why is it all comes down to anxiety or the majority of the time. It comes down

to anxiety. What procrastination really is is a defense mechanism in our brain that stops us

from doing things that are unpleasant. So not only is this like the work sucks and I don't want

to. That's unpleasant. But also doing the work, even if we enjoy it, if we're in this mindset of

I'm going to fail anyways, it's so big of a job. I'll never get it done. This is going to be so

much work. Oh my gosh, I don't know where to start. We are our brain is spinning. We call this

kind of the worry train that we're on. It's like, woo, woo, next up anxiety bill. And when we're in

this sort of downward spiral of all these negative self talk about ourselves about doing the thing

we know we have to do, we feel mentally and physically exhausted. So yes, our brain is telling us

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