How I Dealt With Procrastination

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Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Talking points: mindset, life hacks, culture The list of things I've tried to get over procrastination is so long you could wrap a town's worth of Christmas presents in it. But there is ONE thing that's actually helped. It's pretty counterintuitive, but it seriously has worked every time I've used it. Listen in. (00:00:00) - Intro and how I’ve battled with procrastination for a long, long time(00:04:20) - Procrastination: what it’s actually trying to do (00:08:22) - The one counterintuitive thing that worked for me(00:11:44) - A side effect you’ll need to look out for(00:14:46) - We have a very anti-boredom culture Pick up my book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/ Check out some free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your Relationship Build brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world. Check out The Alliance. Enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they’re looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes, visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How do you deal with procrastination? This is a question I get all the time. And as somebody who in grade
0:13.3	three was diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin, I like to joke that I was like the first lab rat on riddlin, you know,
0:21.4	because it wasn't super popular. Like it has been in the last couple decades. It was just a new
0:27.3	drug. I was notorious for procrastinating. I remember in elementary and junior high and high school
0:33.9	and even in college to some degree, I'd have assignments and it just wouldn't be getting done and I wouldn't care. And I was just avoiding the shit out of them, even though I knew
0:41.5	I wanted to do them, even though I knew I had to do them. I just, for whatever reason, I literally
0:47.2	internally felt like I couldn't. And this was something that I just battled with. And I had this
0:53.0	story that, you know, there was something
0:54.8	fundamentally and undeniably wrong with me, you know, of like, wow, I just can't stop procrastinating.
1:02.1	And I see this with a lot of young men in the world today, a lot of the young men that I work with.
1:07.6	I see your comments on YouTube and on my Instagram page, you know,
1:11.0	talking about procrastination. Some of the men that I've worked with over the years have dealt
1:15.2	with extreme amounts of procrastination. And there's a lot of reasons why these things happen,
1:20.4	you know, from a psychological perspective. And so I'm going to break this down and just give
1:24.5	you a bit of a base understanding of why this happens. And I'm going to give you
1:27.9	like the one thing that I found that work because I tried everything. I tried all the stuff.
1:33.4	I tried to like decluttering the desk and creating a clean environment and like focusing in on
1:39.3	the one thing. And I have some hacks like a one thing I'll give you right now that I have found
1:43.6	super, super helpful
1:44.9	is any time that I want to just go pure beast mode in my productivity, I'll download all my
1:52.1	emails as an example and I'll turn off my Wi-Fi. I'll turn on, do not disturb,
1:57.5	or I'll just put my computer into airplane mode or all my devices into airplane mode. And then I'll go and I'll respond back. I'll just put I'll just put my computer into airplane mode or all my devices into
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