This week I talk about not so mutual agreements and why our procrastination isn't about laziness. I'm Natalie Lou, a writer based in

Southeast London who is dedicated to helping people to improve their

emotional and relationship literacy.

Let's kick this off.

One of the things that you may be interested to know as a baggage reclaim session's listener and possibly a baggage reclaim reader as well is that a lot of readers are

procrastinators. Now a lot of people also think that because they procrastinate that there is something wrong with them.

And in this first part of the show, I really just kind of want to give a shout out and say,

Percastination is not about being lazy. I've realized over the years that

procrastination is a bit like an inbuilt protective mechanism.

So it's a way of turning down the temperature on yourself

just as things are really kind of starting to come together.

So you will tend to find that you procrastinate

when the going is good. So it might be that you're in the

middle of a piece of work and you're kind of coming into that zone where you're

kind of put some of your best stuff down on paper or on the screen

or whatever it is that you're doing.

And then something internally is like, what?

You're doing something really good and boom, it switches off.

It could be that you know that you have something to do and you are afraid of what's involved with that

because you don't really believe in your abilities and so you delay and delay on that until it's like to the last minute.

You might produce something

inside you panicked and was like I need to try and delay on this. And a lot of people struggle with procrastination. They think that they are lazy, they think that they have, you know, that there's something wrong with them and that they are different

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