The only reason we ever procrastinate is if we convince ourselves that the pain of avoiding the work is less than the pain of doing it.

We procrastinate if we feel like it's more painful to get it done than to put it off.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton. This is our consistency 365 series

and we're in the home stretch of it. This was a year of episodes or 365 days of

short episodes that air between our full- episodes, those drop on Mondays and Saturdays,

so that we build the habit of capitalizing on any opportunity today that helps us move the needle towards our goals and breaking

out of this habit of deciding today's not the day because we're traveling.

Today's not the day because it's Sunday.

Today's not the day because I have a headache. Every day there is an

opportunity that we can take despite the many opportunities that we can't or don't want to

take. That's what this series is all about.

Procrastination is a big thing that keeps us

from achieving our goals.

Whether it's I'll work out later and later never comes,

or I'll get this project done later, but then I'm too tired or I'll get this project done later but then I'm too tired or I'll prep food later

But then I ran out of time and so we might as well order pizza we put things off only if we feel like that is a better option, a less painful option than doing it now.

One of the things I've learned about procrastination is that it's worse in my head the way that I've built it up to

unfold than actually doing it. For example there are always these administrative

tasks in my business that I put off because I'm like I don't

want to do that oh that's gonna suck and when I finally do it it takes a

fraction of the time and energy that I thought it would and I'm so stinking glad it's off my plate and I'm no longer having to carry it

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