Episode 324: My Best Tips for Overcoming Procrastination

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen

Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Education

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Struggle with procrastination? In this episode of the Habits & Hustle podcast, Jennifer admits she is a natural procrastinator, especially when it comes to things she doesn’t enjoy doing or things she thinks she is bad at doing. Although, the reality of life is that we aren’t going to be good at everything and we also aren't going to enjoy doing everything–but we still have to do it. So, how do we overcome this and learn to break our toxic procrastination patterns? If you can relate, get ready for Jennifer to share her best Habits & Hustle tips. She explores the different parameters she has implemented into her everyday life that have greatly changed the way she tackles tasks. She also explains how procrastination can be detrimental to our self esteem, how overcoming procrastination needs to become a habit, and the little things she does to eliminate distractions All the tips Jennifer shares are simple, tangible, and available to you at any time for whenever you’re ready to start tackling your procrastination, too. What’s discussed: 0:00 - Introduction to procrastination 1:45 - How some people don’t have time to procrastinate 2:05 - Why we procrastinate on the things we’re bad at 2:53 - How to make big tasks feel less daunting 3:37 - Getting things done first thing in the morning 4:39 - The correlation between procrastination and self esteem 5:59 - How to eliminate distractions 7:44 - Utilizing time blocking 8:30 - Tell us what you think in the Facebook group! Key Takeaways: You procrastinate less when you break things down into smaller, sizable chunks. If something feels daunting to you, instead of thinking about the daunting task at hand, reframe the way you think about it by focusing on getting a small piece of it done today. The smaller you can break up your task, the less daunting it will end up feeling. Procrastination is one of the simplest ways to destroy your self esteem and being your own accountability partner is one of the best ways to build your self esteem. If you make sure you do the things that you tell yourself you're going to do and do them completely, you’ll feel a sense of accomplishment, and that leads to building real self confidence. Put all the hard things you need to get done at the start of your day. Don’t allow yourself to do anything else until you have fully completed these tasks. Turn this into a habit: Tackle the uncomfortable things first before falling into doing what feels comfortable. Find more from Jen: Website: https://www.jennifercohen.com/ Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: https://www.jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://www.jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.
0:08.1	Are you a procrastinator? I'm actually not. I don't have time to procrastinate.
0:12.3	That was a very short, and there was nowhere for me to go. It wasn't very open-ended. No, I'm not.
0:17.7	Okay, then. Well, let me tell you something. I tend to be a little bit of a
0:22.5	procrastinator. I tend to procrastinate on things that I really don't want to do. Like, if I really
0:27.4	don't, I'm not someone who's good at like just doing things if I'm not interested in it, right?
0:33.5	In the mood. In the mood. So I have to set parameters for myself and ways that I can actually get through all the hard stuff, which I was thinking that you were going to say the same thing. You're like, nope, not at all. I don't have time to procrastinate. It's like physically impossible. Well, I mean, the truth of the matter is there is something to be said for if you want something done, give it to a busy person. I do feel like that is true. Like I feel like the most efficient people are the people who are
0:58.9	able to knock stuff off of their to-do list, which I'm, you know, to be on to be fair, I am,
1:04.0	I am okay with that, but it's because I had to set all these like very strict parameters for me to
1:09.3	be able to do that. So that's why I wanted to bring it up.
1:11.8	I think that a lot of people procrastinate when they're not interested in things. And there's also
1:16.2	other reasons why people procrastinate. I think people have fear around whatever the task is.
1:22.6	I think people also have like perfectionism. If it's if they can't do it perfectly, then they don't want to do it.
1:28.6	And they think of all the things otherwise. And I guess, you know, people can fall on the idea of like
1:34.6	ADD or I'm too ADD. I can't, I can't focus on doing something. I don't know. I think that
1:40.8	people rely and use ADD as a, sometimes, not always, as an excuse to get out of doing
1:48.5	things that they, that they should be doing or as a way of like when they don't finish a task.
1:54.7	Yeah. I think it's like I used to progress in all the time. But then I don't know. I just feel like as
1:59.8	you grow up, it's like, I need time to wind down and I want to sleep. I'm like, you know, I don't know. I just feel like as you grow up, it's like,
2:01.2	I need time to wind down and I want to sleep. I'm like, you know, I'm older now. I can't pull like an all nighter where like I procrastinate all day and then I study all night. Like I can't function that way anymore. So it's like I feel like you just have to get things done. Otherwise, what do you do? Well, it depends on what it is, right?
2:14.7	Like, I think it's, let's pick an example, right?
2:17.0	So for an example, I think that it's not, I don't necessarily believe that I don't procrastinate on everything. It's the things that I think I'm bad at. If I was to be honest, I procrastinate on the things that I think I'm bad at. So then I just don't want to do it because the idea is so overwhelming because I know it's going to take me so long to get it done where it's like, or I don't know how to start, right?
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