Ep. 440: Beat Procrastination (and stop beating up YOU)
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Any chance you are looking for a new (#better) way to handle the procrastination that keeps getting in the way of you making real progress?
I thought so!
Head’s up: This episode comes with a FREEBIE called Vanish Procrastination: Why Beating Yourself Up Doesn't Work and What You Can Do Instead.
Be sure to grab it at the link below!
https://tiffanyhan.com/banish-procrastination
Let’s dive into today’s episode:
- I’m breaking down the three biggest reasons procrastination leaves us stuck
- I’m talking about why beating yourself up to get things done doesn’t work
- I’m sharing ideas to bring fun into everyday productivity (Hint: grab the freebie!)
Don’t forget - you can now also watch Raise Your Hand, Say Yes on YouTube!
(and then you can always head back here to the show notes for each episode if you need any extra details like books I talk about or other fun stuff I mention)
Resources from this episode:
- Facing Fear (and Doing the Thing Anyway)
- Don’t Love Journaling? ➡️ Three Life-Changing Ideas That Cost You Nothing
Got questions? Or ideas you would like me to maybe talk about here?
Your feedback makes a huge difference!
Leave a comment or an Instagram DM. Or, you can always find me at tiffanyhan.com.
See you next time!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all, we need to talk about procrastination. |
| 0:03.0 | And I have got some news that you might not love at first. |
| 0:06.3 | That news is that beating yourself up doesn't work. |
| 0:11.1 | And the worst news, trying harder, also doesn't work. |
| 0:15.6 | But the great news is that there is another way forward, |
| 0:20.2 | a way that does not involve you hustling or giving |
| 0:23.8 | yourself a guilt trip or saying that if only you could work harder, that everything would be |
| 0:31.7 | better. Today I'm giving you the three real reasons that you procrastinate and telling you exactly how to shift out of stuck mode for each one. |
| 0:41.2 | No shame spirals required. |
| 0:43.2 | Now, if you want to go deeper into procrastination, I've got a new free guide called banish procrastination that's fun. |
| 0:49.2 | It's doable. |
| 0:50.1 | It involves a die. |
| 0:51.1 | We get some board game vibes going. |
| 0:53.1 | Pop it down into the show notes to get that. Somewhere along the way, the overachievers, the I Can Do It All, those firstborn former GT kid vibes. Y'all know, y'all know if that's you, got the message along the way that if something wasn't happening for us, it was our fault. |
| 1:11.9 | That that must mean that we are working hard enough, we're not trying hard enough, |
| 1:15.5 | or we are somehow deficient in some way. |
| 1:19.2 | When things feel hard, we scream at ourselves like angry drill sergeants. |
| 1:22.6 | We make color-coded to-do lists and we white knuckle our way through exhaustion. |
| 1:27.2 | And then we crash. And then we crash and then we |
| 1:29.5 | fall down scrolling rabbit holes or we spend a lot of time doing things that we're not proud of. |
| 1:35.2 | And here's what I've learned. You literally cannot shaming ourselves into progress, nor can you |
| 1:40.3 | productivity hack your way out of burnout. It's time to stop treating your failure to get |
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