Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm

specializing and helping teams and organizations create better working experiences that deliver better

results. So how are you doing these days? Let me guess, you're busy, right?

Ugh, we are all always so darn busy, wondering how to whittle down our

to-do lists and just get some more done. I have some tough love to deliver today. You may be

procrastinating. I don't mean falling down social media rabbit holes procrastinating, but a more

secret invisible to the naked eye kind of procrastinating.

It's disguised as something else. I see it all the time, sometimes even when I look in the mirror.

So let's talk about some of these super secret procrastination traps you might be falling into.

And let's talk about how you can climb out. The first one is called

procrasta learning. Have you ever heard of this one? Is it a made-up word? I assume so, but it really is

happening on the regular. I am super guilty of this one. It's when we start to spend so much time

learning something new that we forget or we put off

the actual doing of the thing.

For some, it's going down a rabbit hole like TED Talks.

I just need to watch one more.

For others, it might be pursuing a certification.

I couldn't possibly do the thing until I'm fully certified.

Or it may be just reading one more book,

listening to one more podcast, or getting just one more expert opinion. Learning is this virtuous

thing. Nothing like doom scrolling or watching endless IG reels. Learning is always a good thing,

right? And yet the truth is not always. Learning is wonderful, but it should be serving a purpose.

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